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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

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proliferating as they are effective, flexible and cost-efficient devices for a variety of applications ranging from natural disaster recovery to delivery of goods. We investigate a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-30 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aided wireless networks have been recently envisioned as a solution to provide a reliable, low latency cellular link for search and rescue operations over the sea. We propose three different network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-14 Gianluca Fontanesi , Hamed Ahmadi , Anding Zhu

The growing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for various applications requires ubiquitous and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these devices and ground terminals. Depending on the application,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Evgenii Vinogradov , Hazem Sallouha , Sibren De Bast , Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Sofie Pollin

This paper develops a framework for analyzing UAV-enabled short-packet communication, leveraging fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted relaying networks. Operating in the short-packet regime and focusing on challenging urban environments, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Hanjiang Hong , Han Xiao , Hao Xu , Tuo Wu , Chan-Byoung Chae

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs) is envisaged as a key enabler for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond-5G networks. Specifically, aerial base stations (UAV-BS) are expected to provide ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Wael Jaafar , Shimaa Naser , Sami Muhaidat , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipments such as drones or flying taxis is a major challenge for tomorrow cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point transmission for providing seamless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Nicola Marchetti

Multi-uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperative perception has emerged as a promising paradigm for diverse low-altitude economy applications, where complementary multi-view observations are leveraged to enhance perception performance via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yunting Xu , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Changyuan Zhao , Yinqiu Liu , Dusit Niyato , Liang Yu , Haibo Zhou , Dong In Kim

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their flexible mobility, on-demand deployment, and the ability to establish high probability line-of-sight wireless communication. As a result, UAVs have been extensively used as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Yunhao Quan , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Jinglong Shen , Longfei Ma , Zhisheng Yin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an essential role in future wireless communication networks due to their high mobility, low cost, and on-demand deployment. In air-to-ground links, UAVs are widely used to enhance the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hongjiang Lei , Dongyang Meng , Haoxiang Ran , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

With line-of-sight mode deployment and fast response, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), equipped with the cutting-edge integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technique, is poised to deliver high-quality communication and sensing services…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Bohan Li , Jiahao Liu , Junsheng Mu , Pei Xiao , Sheng Chen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is a promising solution for providing high-quality mobile services to ground users, where a UAV with limited service coverage travels among multiple geographical user locations (e.g., hotspots) for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kai Wang , Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Jun Tie

Cooperative communication using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a promising technology for infrastructureless wireless networks. One of the key challenges in UAV based communications is the backhaul throughput. In this paper, we propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-07 Samer Hanna , Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

The usage of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in conjunction with Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) is being investigated as a way to provide energy-efficient communication to ground users in dense urban areas. In this paper, we…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling technologies for UAVs, wireless communication is essential and has drawn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-15 Yong Zeng , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Use of aerial base stations (ABSs) is a promising approach to enhance the agility and flexibility of future wireless networks. ABSs can improve the coverage and/or capacity of a network by moving supply towards demand. Deploying ABSs in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Elham Kalantari , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be users that support new applications, or be communication access points that serve terrestrial and/or aerial users. In this paper, we focus on the connectivity problem of aerial users when they are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Nesrine Cherif , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized as effective platforms for carrying Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs), enabling low-cost, agile, and flexible wireless networks with high Quality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kamal Shayegan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising solution to provide wireless data access for ground users in various applications (e.g., in emergence situations). This paper considers a UAV-enabled wireless network, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Peiming Li , Jie Xu

This work considers covert communications in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, aiming to hide a UAV for transmitting critical information out of a scenario that is monitored and where communication is not allowed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Jiande Sun , Jun Li , Feng Shu