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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are integral in various sectors like agriculture, surveillance, and logistics, driven by advancements in 5G. However, existing research lacks a comprehensive approach addressing both data freshness and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Poorvi Joshi , Alakesh Kalita , Mohan Gurusamy

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous sensing applications, which are expected to add billions of dollars to the world economy in the next decade. To further improve the Quality-of-Service (QoS) in such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Fanyi Wu , Hongliang Zhang , Jianjun Wu , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

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

In different situations, like disaster communication and network connectivity for rural locations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could indeed be utilized as airborne base stations to improve both the functionality and coverage of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shahid Rasool , Irfan Ullah , Abid Ali , Ishtiaq Ahmad

Harvesting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices with multiple autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging problem requiring flexible path planning methods. We propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

In this paper, we study a real-time monitoring system in which multiple source nodes are responsible for sending update packets to a common destination node in order to maintain the freshness of information at the destination. Since it may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Nikolaos Pappas

Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted increasing attention. By taking into account age-of-information (AoI), we investigate the trajectory planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Zhen Gao

The Internet of Things (IoT) extends the Internet connectivity into billions of IoT devices around the world, where the IoT devices collect and share information to reflect status of the physical world. The Autonomous Control System (ACS),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Lei Lei , Yue Tan , Kan Zheng , Shiwen Liu , Kuan Zhang , Xuemin , Shen

Devices operating in Internet of Things (IoT) networks may be deployed across vast geographical areas and interconnected via multi-hop communications. Further, they may be unguarded. This makes them vulnerable to attacks and motivates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yizhou Luo , Kwan-Wu Chin , Ruyi Guan , Xi Xiao , Caimeng Wang , Jingyin Feng , Tengjiao He

In this paper, the problem of minimizing the weighted sum of age of information (AoI) and total energy consumption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is studied. In the considered model, each IoT device monitors a physical process that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Changchuan Yin , Walid Saad , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

The advent of fifth generation (5G) networks has opened new avenues for enhancing connectivity, particularly in challenging environments like remote areas or disaster-struck regions. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been identified as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Yuhui Wang , Junaid Farooq

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a highly promising technology with diverse applications in wireless networks. One of their primary uses is the collection of time-sensitive data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In UAV-assisted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye , El Houcine Bergou , Hajar El Hammouti

The development of wireless power transfer (WPT) and Internet of Things (IoT) offers significant potential but faces challenges such as limited energy supply, dynamic environmental changes, and unstable transmission links. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wen Zhang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Dusit Niyato

Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become increasingly ubiquitous with applications not only in urban areas but remote areas as well. These devices support industries such as agriculture, forestry, and resource extraction. Due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ethan Fettes , Pablo G. Madoery , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Gunes Karabulut-Kurt , Abhishek Naik , Colin Bellinger , Stephane Martel , Khaled Ahmed , Sameera Siddiqui

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Internet of Things (IoT) networks offers promising solutions for efficient data collection. However, the limited energy capacity of UAVs remains a significant challenge. In this case,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Geng Sun , Likun Zhang , Jiahui Li , Jing Wu , Jiacheng Wang , Zemin Sun , Changyuan Zhao , Victor C. M. Leung

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as an efficient approach to resource allocation due to its strong capability in handling complex decision-making tasks. However, only limited research has explored the training of DRL models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Aohan Li , Miyu Tsuzuki

In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method is proposed to address the problem of UAV navigation in an unknown environment. However, DRL algorithms are limited by the data efficiency problem as they typically require a huge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Lei He , Nabil Aouf , James F. Whidborne , Bifeng Song

In this paper, we propose reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) networks that can utilise both advantages of UAV's agility and RIS's reflection for enhancing the network's performance. To aim at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Saeed Khosravirad , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Long D. Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been continuously rising in the past few years, and its potentials are now more apparent. However, transient data generation and limited energy resources are the major bottlenecks of these networks. Besides,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Hongda Wu , Ali Nasehzadeh , Ping Wang