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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the intrinsic three-dimensional (3D) mobility provides an ideal platform for implementing aerial movable antenna (AMA) system enabled by UAV swarm cooperation. Besides, AMA system is readily to achieve an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haiquan Lu , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Shaodan Ma , Long Shi , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectories for multiple UAVs while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground base stations (GBSs) is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

Due to the fact that the locations of base stations (BSs) cannot be changed after they are installed, it is very difficult to communicate directly with remote user equipment (UE), which will directly affect the lifespan of the system.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Xueqi Zhang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Lingling Liu , Jing Zhang

Advances in the Internet of Things are revolutionizing data acquisition, enhancing artificial intelligence and quality of service. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an efficient data-gathering solution across varied environments. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Priyavrat Dev Sharma , Ibrahim Sorkhoh , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations (ABSs) to provide wireless connectivity for ground users (GUs) in various emergency scenarios. However, it is a NP-hard problem with exponential complexity in $M$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiangbin Lyu , Xu Chen , Jiefeng Zhang , Liqun Fu

A promising application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the future communication networks is to address emergency communications. This paper considers such a scenario where a UAV is employed to a malfunction area (modeled as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Yanshi Sun , Zhiguo Ding , Xuchu Dai

The next era of information revolution will rely on aggregating big data from massive numbers of devices that are widely scattered in our environment. Most of these devices are expected to be of low-complexity, low-cost, and limited power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Osama M. Bushnaq , Abdulkadir Celik , Hesham ElSawy , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

This paper addresses the problem of target detection and localisation in a limited area using multiple coordinated agents. The swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) determines the position of the dispersion of stack effluents to a gas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Daniele Facinelli , Matteo Larcher , Davide Brunelli , Daniele Fontanelli

Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based communications systems have attracted increasing research and commercial interest due to their cost effective deployment and ease of mobility.During natural disasters and emergencies, such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sai Teja Suggala , Siddhartha Pothukuchi , Naimat Ali Khan

In this paper, the problem of trajectory design of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for maximizing the number of satisfied users is studied in a UAV based cellular network where the UAV works as a flying base station that serves users, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Xuanlin Liu , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin

In this article, we introduce a method to optimize 5G massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) connectivity for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on aerial highways through strategic cell association. UAVs operating in 3D space…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Matteo Bernabe , David Lopez-Perez , Nicola Piovesan , Giovanni Geraci , David Gesbert

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer dynamic trajectory control, enabling them to avoid obstacles and establish line-of-sight (LoS) wireless channels with ground nodes (GNs), unlike traditional ground-fixed base stations. This study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Gitae Park , Kanghyun Heo , Kisong Lee

Unmanned aerial vehicles serving as aerial base stations (UAV-BSs) can be deployed to provide wireless connectivity to ground devices in events of increased network demand, points-of-failure in existing infrastructure, or disasters.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Babatunji Omoniwa , Boris Galkin , Ivana Dusparic

Joint deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) has been shown to be an effective method to establish communications in areas affected by disasters. However, ensuring good Quality of Services (QoS)…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) have emerged as a promising technique to rapidly provide wireless services to a group of mobile users simultaneously. The paper aims to address a challenging issue that each user is selfish and may misreport…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xinping Xu , Lingjie Duan , Minming Li

Modern wireless traffic demand pushes Internet Service Providers to develop effective strategies to improve user experience. Since deploying dense Base Stations (BSs) is not cost efficient, an alternative is to deploy autonomous drones to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Hailong Huang , Andrey V. Savkin , Ming Ding , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

In this paper, we consider a single-cell cellular network with a number of cellular users (CUs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in which multiple UAVs upload their collected data to the base station (BS). Two transmission modes are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-29 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

This work considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks for collecting data covertly from ground users. The full-duplex UAV intends to gather critical information from a scheduled user (SU) through wireless communication and generate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Jun Li

Integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network is envisioned to be a promising technology to significantly enhance the communication performance of both UAVs and existing terrestrial users. In this paper, we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we use an aerial base station (aerial-BS) to enhance fairness in a dynamic environment with user mobility. The problem of optimally placing the aerial-BS is a non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problem.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Rozhina Ghanavi , Maryam Sabbaghian , Halim Yanikomeroglu