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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have a great potential for improving the performance of wireless communication systems due to their wide coverage and high mobility. In this paper, we study a UAV-enabled data collection system, where a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Dingcheng Yang , Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

One primary focus of next generation wireless communication networks is the millimeterwave (mmWave) spectrum, typically considered in the 30 GHz to 300 GHz frequency range. Despite their promise of high data rates, mmWaves suffer from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shawon Mitra , Subhojit Sarkar , Sasthi C. Ghosh

The integration of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology in 6G Internet of Things (IoT) networks faces significant challenges in remote areas and disaster scenarios where ground infrastructure is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yue Chen , Hui Kang , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Boxiong Wang , Jiacheng Wang , Cong Liang , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato

An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network architecture can enable flexible and fast deployment of next-generation cellular networks. However, mutual interference between access and backhaul links, small inter-site distance and spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Abdurrahman Fouda , Ahmed S. Ibrahim , Ismail Guvenc , Monisha Ghosh

In this paper, the optimal trajectory and deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), used as aerial base stations to collect data from ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is investigated. In particular, to enable reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Reliable and direct communication between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could facilitate autonomous flight, collision avoidance, and cooperation in UAV swarms. In this paper, we consider UAV-to-UAV (U2U) communications underlaying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-11 M. Mahdi Azari , Giovanni Geraci , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Sofie Pollin

In this paper, a novel communication framework that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-carried intelligent reflector (IR) is proposed to enhance multi-user downlink transmissions over millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Qianqian Zhang , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis

Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication's severe power limitations challenge the interconnectivity, access management, and reliable communication of data. In densely deployed M2M networks, controlling and aggregating the generated data is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Derya Malak , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Future uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) systems increasingly combine heterogeneous communication technologies, such as low-latency aerial mesh, terrestrial cellular, and satellite links, to improve robustness and coverage. Multipath transport…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Aygun Baltaci , Irshad A. Meer , Mustafa Ozger , Cicek Cavdar , Dominic Schupke

Deploying Sub-6GHz networks together with millimeter wave (mmWave) is a promising solution to achieve high data rates in traffic hotspots while guaranteeing sufficient coverage, where mmWave small cells are densely deployed to provide high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Minwei Shi , Kai Yang , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato

This paper investigates the spectral efficiency achieved through uplink joint transmission, where a serving user and the network users (UEs) collaborate by jointly transmitting to the base station (BS). The analysis incorporates the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Kumar Sai Bondada , Usama Saeed , Yibin Liang , Daniel J. Jakubisin , Lingjia Liu , R. Michael Buehrer

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has become an appealing solution for a wide range of commercial and civilian applications because of its high mobility and flexible deployment. Due to the continuous UAV navigation, the channel between UAV and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Jianwei Zhao , Qi Dong , Yanjie Zhao , Bolei Wang , Feifei Gao

In this paper, downlink secure transmission in simultaneous information and power transfer (SWIPT) system enabled with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is studied. A base station (BS) with a large number of antennas transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Zahra Goli , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Hamed Farhadi , Tommy Svensson

Command and control of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) is often realized through air-to-ground (A2G) remote control (RC) links that operate in ISM bands. While wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) technology is commonly used for UAV RC links,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Donggu Lee , Sung Joon Maeng , Ozgur Ozdemir , Mani Bharathi Pandian , Ismail Guvenc

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond cellular networks is a promising solution to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based wireless mesh networks can economically provide wireless services for the areas with disasters. However, the capacity of air-to-air communications is limited due to the multi-hop transmissions. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhiqing Wei , Zijun Guo , Zhiyong Feng , Jialin Zhu , Caijun Zhong , Qihui Wu , Huici Wu

Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance or monitoring applications into fifth generation (5G) New Radio (NR) cellular networks is an intriguing problem that has recently tackled a lot of interest in both academia and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Donatella Darsena , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

This paper presents a unified analytical framework for a two phase underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system that integrates Simultaneous Lightwave Information and Power Transfer (SLIPT) using a photovoltaic (PV) panel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Shunyuan Shang , Ziyuan Shi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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

Internet of Things (IoT) systems in general consist of a lot of devices with massive connectivity. Those devices are usually constrained with limited energy supply and can only operate at low power and low rate. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Zhou Ni , Ziru Chen , Qinbo Zhang , Chi Zhou