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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) increasingly enhance the Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless networks due to their flexibility and cost-effectiveness. However, optimizing UAV placement in dynamic, obstacle-prone environments remains a…

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We address the mobility management of an autonomous UAV-mounted base station (UAV-BS) that provides communication services to a cluster of users on the ground while the geographical characteristics (e.g., location and boundary) of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Mohammad Ghadir Khoshkholgh , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Mission planning for a fleet of cooperative autonomous drones in applications that involve serving distributed target points, such as disaster response, environmental monitoring, and surveillance, is challenging, especially under partial…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Michael Elrod , Niloufar Mehrabi , Rahul Amin , Manveen Kaur , Long Cheng , Jim Martin , Abolfazl Razi

Effective solutions for intelligent data collection in terrestrial cellular networks are crucial, especially in the context of Internet of Things applications. The limited spectrum and coverage area of terrestrial base stations pose…

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Mobile users are prone to experience beam failure due to beam drifting in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Sensing can help alleviate beam drifting with timely beam changes and low overhead since it does not need user feedback. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Xiyu Wang , Gilberto Berardinelli , Hei Victor Cheng , Petar Popovski , Ramoni Adeogun

Deep Reinforcement Learning is quickly becoming a popular method for training autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Our work analyzes the effects of measurement uncertainty on the performance of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based…

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This study addresses the challenge of optimal power allocation in stochastic wireless networks by employing a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) framework. Specifically, we design a Deep Q-Network (DQN) agent capable of learning adaptive…

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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

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has demonstrated its potential in solving complex manufacturing decision-making problems, especially in a context where the system learns over time with actual operation in the absence of training data. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Miguel Neves , Pedro Neto

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jonas Westheider , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

The emerging concept of 3D networks, integrating terrestrial, aerial, and space layers, introduces a novel and complex structure characterized by stations relaying backhaul loads through point-to-point wireless links, forming a wireless 3D…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Salim Janji , Piotr Wawrzyniak , Piotr Formanowicz , Adrian Kliks

The capability of UAVs for efficient autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance in complex and unknown environments is critical for applications in agricultural irrigation, disaster relief and logistics. In this paper, we propose the DPRL…

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This paper introduces the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as lightweight wireless access points that leverage the fixed infrastructure in the context of the emerging open radio access network (O-RAN). More precisely, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Hossein Mohammadi , Vuk Marojevic , Bodong Shang

The stochastic and dynamic nature of renewable energy sources and power electronic devices are creating unique challenges for modern power systems. One such challenge is that the conventional mathematical systems models-based optimal active…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Jiajun Duan , Haifeng Li , Xiaohu Zhang , Ruisheng Diao , Bei Zhang , Di Shi , Xiao Lu , Zhiwei Wang , Siqi Wang

Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) is regarded as an effective and efficient technology to share radio spectrum among different networks. As a secondary user (SU), a DSA device will face two critical problems: avoiding causing harmful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Hao-Hsuan Chang , Hao Song , Yang Yi , Jianzhong Zhang , Haibo He , Lingjia Liu

With the growing connectivity demands, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a prominent component in the deployment of Next Generation On-demand Wireless Networks. However, current UAV positioning solutions typically neglect the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Gabriella Pantaleão , Rúben Queirós , Hélder Fontes , Rui Campos

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a subfield of machine learning for training autonomous agents that take sequential actions across complex environments. Despite its significant performance in well-known environments, it remains…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are pivotal for future 6G non-terrestrial networks, yet their high mobility creates a complex coupled optimization problem for beamforming and trajectory design. Existing numerical methods suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Ruiqi Wang , Essra M. Ghoura , Omar Alhussein , Yuzhi Yang , Jing Ren , Shizhong Xu , Sami Muhaidat

This letter presents a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach for transmission design to optimize the energy efficiency in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication links. Considering the dynamic environment of vehicular communications,…

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