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This paper discusses the problem of securing the transmissions of multiple ground users against eavesdropping attacks. We propose and optimize the deployment of a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which serves as an aerial relay between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic

In this paper, the optimization of deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over a reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-assisted visible light communication (VLC) system is studied. In the considered model, UAVs are required to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Yihan Cang , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Chongwen Huang

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into wireless networks has opened a new horizon to meet the capacity and coverage requirements foreseen in future wireless networks. Harnessing UAVs as flying base stations (BSs) has helped…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Rabe Arshad , Lutz Lampe , Hesham ElSawy , Md. Jahangir Hossain

This paper considers a patrol inspection scenario where multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are adopted to traverse multiple predetermined cruise points for data collection. The UAVs are connected to cellular networks and they would…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Kuan Jia , Dingcheng Yang , Yapeng Wang , Tianyun Shui , Chenji Liu

In this article, we investigate the content distribution in the hotspot area, whose traffic is offloaded by the combination of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication and edge caching. In cache-enabling UAV-assisted cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tiankui Zhang , Yi Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Wenjun Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Relative localization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments is essential for emergency rescue and battlefield reconnaissance. Existing methods suffer from significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Guangyu Lei , Yuqi Ping , Tianhao Liang , Huahao Ding , Tingting Zhang

In this paper, we consider the sum power minimization problem via jointly optimizing user association, power control, computation capacity allocation and location planning in a mobile edge computing (MEC) network with multiple unmanned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Zhaohui Yang , Cunhua Pan , Kezhi Wang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

This paper proposes an innovative approach by leveraging uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs) and a high-altitude platform station (HAPS) as the central processing unit (CPU) in an integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Parisa Kanani , Mohammad Javad Omidi , Mahmoud Modarres-Hashemi , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this paper, a machine learning based deployment framework of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is studied. In the considered model, UAVs are deployed as flying base stations (BS) to offload heavy traffic from ground BSs. Due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Linyan Lu , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Zelin Zang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based communications systems have attracted increasing research and commercial interest due to their cost effective deployment and ease of mobility.During natural disasters and emergencies, such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sai Teja Suggala , Siddhartha Pothukuchi , Naimat Ali Khan

Temporary high traffic requests in cellular networks is a challenging problem to address. Recent advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles applied to cover these types of traffics. UAV -Mounted Mobile Base Stations placement is a challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Amir Mirzaeinia , Mehdi Mirzaeinia , Mohammad Shekaramiz , Mostafa Hassanalian

In emergency search and rescue scenarios, the quick location of trapped people is essential. However, disasters can render the Global Positioning System (GPS) unusable. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with localization devices can serve as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhihao Zhu , Jiafan He , Luyang Hou , Lianming Xu , Wendi Zhu , Li Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-enabled aerial communication provides a flexible, reliable, and cost-effective solution for a range of wireless applications. However, due to the high line-of-sight (LoS) probability, aerial communications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Shuang Liang , Pengfei Wang , Dusit Niyato

The deployment of aerial base stations (ABSs) on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents a promising solution for extending cellular connectivity to areas where terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. A pivotal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Daniel Romero , Pham Q. Viet , Raju Shrestha

Fast and reliable wireless communication has become a critical demand in human life. In the case of mission-critical (MC) scenarios, for instance, when natural disasters strike, providing ubiquitous connectivity becomes challenging by using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongyi Zhang , Zhiqiang Qi , Jingya Li , Anders Aronsson , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

To reap the benefits of dense small base station (SBS) deployment, innovative backhaul solutions are needed in order to manage scenarios in which high-speed ground backhaul links are either unavailable or limited in capacity. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Ursula Challita , Walid Saad

Cooperative and cognitive non-orthogonal multiple access (CCR-NOMA) has been recognized as a promising technique to overcome issues of spectrum scarcity and support massive connectivity envisioned in next-generation wireless networks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Sultangali Arzykulov , Abdulkadir Celik , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Deployment of multi-hop network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as flying base stations (FlyBSs) presents a remarkable potential to effectively enhance the performance of wireless networks. Such potential enhancement, however,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo , Omid Esrafilian , Zdenek Becvar , David Gesbert

This work describes the orchestration of a fleet of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for harvesting prioritized traffic from random distributions of heterogeneous users with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) capabilities. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Bharath Keshavamurthy , Nicolo Michelusi

In this paper, a novel machine learning (ML) framework is proposed for enabling a predictive, efficient deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), acting as aerial base stations (BSs), to provide on-demand wireless service to cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-02 Qianqian Zhang , Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah