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UAV swarms can form virtual antenna arrays to exploit additional spatial degrees of freedom and enhance integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). The optimization of UAV positions is challenging due to the distributed nature of swarms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Dusit Niyato , Ekram Hossain

This letter investigates an uplink power control problem for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted wireless communications. We jointly optimize the UAV's flying altitude, antenna beamwidth, UAV's location and ground terminals' allocated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Zhaohui Yang , Cunhua Pan , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , Wei Xu , Ming Chen , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper studies the optimal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) placement problem for wireless networking. The UAV operates as a flying wireless relay to provide coverage extension for a base station (BS) and deliver capacity boost to a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Junting Chen , David Gesbert

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of sensors via distributed beamforming. We consider the delay-sensitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

This paper tackles the challenge of real-time 3D trajectory prediction for UAVs, which is critical for applications such as aerial surveillance and defense. Existing prediction models that rely primarily on position data struggle with…

In this paper, the problem of joint caching and resource allocation is investigated for a network of cache-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that service wireless ground users over the LTE licensed and unlicensed (LTE-U) bands. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Changchuan Yin

In different situations, like disaster communication and network connectivity for rural locations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could indeed be utilized as airborne base stations to improve both the functionality and coverage of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shahid Rasool , Irfan Ullah , Abid Ali , Ishtiaq Ahmad

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are recognized as promising technologies for area coverage due to the flexibility and adaptability. However, the ability of a single UAV is limited, and as for the large-scale three-dimensional (3D) scenario,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Jia He , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Junyu Liu , Qihui Wu , Jingxian Liu

This work describes the orchestration of a fleet of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for harvesting prioritized traffic from random distributions of heterogeneous users with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) capabilities. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Bharath Keshavamurthy , Nicolo Michelusi

In this letter, we study the secure communication problem in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled networks aided by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) from the physical-layer security perspective. Specifically, the IRS is deployed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Wen Wang , Hui Tian , Wanli Ni , Meihui Hua

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have emerged as a practical solution that provides on-demand services to users in areas where the terrestrial network is non-existent or temporarily unavailable, e.g., due to natural disasters or network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Asad Mahmood , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted a surge of research interest in both academia and industry. To support aerial user equipment (UEs) in the existing cellular networks, one promising approach is to assign a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Xuesong Cai , István Z. Kovács , Jeroen Wigard , Rafhael Amorim , Fredrik Tufvesson , Preben E. Mogensen

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation design for multicarrier (MC) systems employing a solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for providing communication services to multiple downlink users. We study the joint design of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Dongfang Xu , Linglong Dai , Robert Schober

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are poised to revolutionize communications. Utilizing their flexibility and fast deployment, we can deliver content in congested areas or provide services in areas without infrastructure. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Georgios S. Paschos , Nikolaos Pappas

With the advancement in drone technology, in just a few years, drones will be assisting humans in every domain. But there are many challenges to be tackled, communication being the chief one. This paper aims at providing insights into the…

Over the past few years, the use of swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in monitoring and remote area surveillance applications has become widespread thanks to the price reduction and the increased capabilities of drones. The drones…

Distributed learning and inference algorithms have become indispensable for IoT systems, offering benefits such as workload alleviation, data privacy preservation, and reduced latency. This paper introduces an innovative approach that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Dragisa Miskovic

In this paper, we investigate an integrated sensing-and-communication (ISAC) network enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV is supposed to fly along a periodical circular trajectory at a fixed height for ISAC service supply…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Xiaopeng Yuan , Peng Wu , Xinran Wang , Yulin Hu , Anke Schmeink

This paper investigates the robust and secure task transmission and computation scheme in multi-antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) networks, where the UAV is dual-function, i.e., aerial MEC and aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Weihao Mao , Ke Xiong , Yang Lu , Pingyi Fan , Zhiguo Ding

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is expected to revolutionize the existing integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system and promise a more flexible joint design. Nevertheless, the existing works on ISAC mainly focus on exploring the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Shaodan Ma , Wen Chen , Kunlun Wang , Jun Li