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This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data collection systems with different multiple access schemes, where a rotary-wing UAV is dispatched to collect data from multiple ground nodes (GNs). Our goal is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Zhiguo Ding

Employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted growing interests and emerged as the state-of-the-art technology for data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this paper, with the objective of minimizing the total…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Jerome Henry

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising technique for optical wireless communication (OWC), enabling multiple users to share the optical spectrum simultaneously through the power domain. However, imperfect channel state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Ahmed A. Hassan , Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir Elgorashi , Jaafar Elmirghani

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication is becoming a streamlined technology in providing improved coverage to the internet-of-things (IoT) based devices. Rapid deployment, portability, and flexibility are some of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Muhammad Ali Jamshed , Ferheen Ayaz , Aryan Kaushik , Carlo Fischione , Masood Ur-Rehman

This paper addresses the critical issue of spectrum scarcity and the need to support diverse services, including communication and learning tasks, by presenting a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless network framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Ming Zeng , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Xingwang Li , Ji Wang , Gongpu Wang

This paper investigates a master unmanned aerial vehicle (MUAV)-powered Internet of Things (IoT) network, in which we propose using a rechargeable auxiliary UAV (AUAV) equipped with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Jingren Xu , Xin Kang , Ronghaixiang Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang , Sumei Sun

Given the surge in wireless data traffic driven by the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), cognitive radio (CR), and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have been recognized as promising techniques to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Felix Obite , Ali Krayani , Atm S. Alam , Lucio Marcenaro , Arumugam Nallanathan , Carlo Regazzoni

It has become very essential to address the limited spectrum capacity and their efficient utilization to support the increasing number of Internet of Things devices. When it comes to medical infrastructure, it becomes very imperative for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Ashiqur Rahman Rahul , Saifur Rahman Sabuj , Majumder Fazle Haider , Shakil Ahmed

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently attracted a lot of attention as a candidate to meet the 6G ubiquitous connectivity demand and boost the resiliency of terrestrial networks. Thanks to the high spectral efficiency and low latency,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Ahmed Benfaid , Nadia Adem , Bassem Khalfi

This paper presents a novel and effective deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach to addressing joint resource management (JRM) in a practical multi-carrier non-orthogonal multiple access (MC-NOMA) system, where hardware…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shaoyang Wang , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni , Norman C. Beaulieu , Y. Jay Guo

Current fifth-generation (5G) networks do not cover maritime areas, causing difficulties in developing maritime Internet of Things (IoT). To tackle this problem, we establish a nearshore network by collaboratively using on-shore terrestrial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xinran Fang , Wei Feng , Yanmin Wang , Yunfei Chen , Ning Ge , Zhiguo Ding

In the 6G Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, unprecedented challenges will be raised to provide massive connectivity, ultra-low latency, and energy efficiency for ultra-dense IoT devices. To address these challenges, we explore the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Haibo Wang , Hongwei Gao , Pai Jiang , Matthieu De Mari , Panzer Gu , Yinsheng Liu

Wireless support of virtual reality (VR) has challenges when a network has multiple users, particularly for 3D VR gaming, digital AI avatars, and remote team collaboration. This work addresses these challenges through investigation of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Sagnik Bhattacharya , Abhiram Gorle , Muhammad Ali Jamshed , John M. Cioffi

This paper is concerned with the resource allocation in a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided network for providing enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services for user equipments. Different from most of the existing network resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xing Xi , Xianbin Cao , Peng Yang , Jingxuan Chen , Dapeng Wu

Envisioned as a promising component of the future wireless Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique can support massive connectivity with a significantly increased spectral efficiency.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yuxin Lu , Peng Cheng , Zhuo Chen , Wai Ho Mow , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

This paper studies the multi-agent resource allocation problem in vehicular networks using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and network slicing. To ensure heterogeneous service requirements for different vehicles, we propose a network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zoubeir Mlika , Soumaya Cherkaoui

In this work, we examine an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scenario with the aim of maximizing the sum rate of users. The optimization problem at the IRS is quite complicated,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Muhammad Shehab , Bekir S. Ciftler , Tamer Khattab , Mohamed Abdallah , Daniele Trinchero

A novel framework of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) communications with the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is proposed for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Jingjing Zhao , Qian Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Yanbo Zhu

The low-altitude Internet of Things (IoT), supported by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), provides ground sensing networks with advanced real-time monitoring and data collection. To maximize data collection volume from distributed IoT nodes,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhenjia Xu , Xiaoling Zhang , Nan Qi , Guangxu Zhu , Xiaojie Li , Luliang Jia

This study introduces a resource allocation framework for integrated satellite-terrestrial networks to address these challenges. The framework leverages local cache pool deployments and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to reduce time…