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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is becoming increasingly used in a variety of applications such as video surveillance and deliveries. To enable safe and efficient use of UAVs, the devices will need to be connected into cellular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Boris Galkin , Erika Fonseca , Gavin Lee , Conor Duff , Marvin Kelly , Edward Emmanuel , Ivana Dusparic

With the rapid development of aerial infrastructure, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that function as aerial base stations (ABSs) extend terrestrial network services into the sky, enabling on-demand connectivity and enhancing emergency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Enzhi Zhou , Yue Xiao , Ziyue Liu , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as flying base stations (BSs) to offload Macro-BSs in hotspots. However, due to the limited battery on-board, UAVs can typically stay in operation for less than 1.5 hours. Afterward, the UAV has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Wireless access points on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being considered for mobile service provisioning in commercial networks. To be able to efficiently use these devices in cellular networks it is necessary to first have a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Boris Galkin , Jacek Kibiłda , Luiz A. DaSilva

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication is a promising technology in future wireless communication networks. UAVs can not only help offload data traffic from ground base stations (GBSs), but also improve the quality of service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Yukuan Ji , Zhaohui Yang , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Xiaodai Dong

The rapid growth of consumer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is creating promising new business opportunities for cellular operators. On the one hand, UAVs can be connected to cellular networks as new types of user equipment, therefore…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Azade Fotouhi , Haoran Qiang , Ming Ding , Mahbub Hassan , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Jinhong Yuan

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted a surge of research interest in both academia and industry. To support aerial user equipment (UEs) in the existing cellular networks, one promising approach is to assign a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Xuesong Cai , István Z. Kovács , Jeroen Wigard , Rafhael Amorim , Fredrik Tufvesson , Preben E. Mogensen

The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility, flexibility, and adaptive altitude, UAVs admit several key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Young-Han Nam , Merouane Debbah

We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture. Under the general assumption that the propagation channel between the mobile stations, either UAVs or ground users, and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-12 Carmen D'Andrea , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Stefano Buzzi

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will inevitably be integrated into future cellular networks as new aerial mobile users. Providing cellular connectivity to UAVs will enable a myriad of applications ranging from online…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Ursula Challita , Aidin Ferdowsi , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) assisted terahertz (THz) wireless communications have been expected to play a vital role in the next generation of wireless networks. UAVs can serve as either repeaters or data collectors within the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Da Li , Peian Li , Jiabiao Zhao , Jianjian Liang , Jiacheng Liu , Guohao Liu , Yuanshuai Lei , Wenbo Liu , Jianqin Deng , Fuyong Liu , Jianjun Ma

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of ground nodes (GNs) via distributed beamforming. We consider two scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

A main challenge in providing connectivity to the low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through existing cellular network arises due to the increased interference in the network. The increased altitude and favourable propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Vijaya Yajnanarayana , Y. -P. Eric Wang , Shiwei Gao , Siva Muruganathan , Xingqin Lin

As an emerging field of aerial robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant research interest within the wireless networking research community. As soon as national legislations allow UAVs to fly autonomously, we will…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Debashisha Mishra , Enrico Natalizio

This letter proposes an analytical framework to evaluate the coverage performance of a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network in which UAV user equipments (UAV-UEs) are equipped with directional antennas and move according…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Hongguang Sun , Chao Ma , Linyi Zhang , Jiahui Li , Xijun Wang , Shuqin Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

The large-scale and ever-growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range of applications is foreseen to be a major part of beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks in the next decade. The effective support of such massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mohammad Mozaffari , Xingqin Lin , Stephen Hayes

To support high data rate urgent or ad hoc communications, we consider mmWave UAV cellular networks and the associated challenges and solutions. To enable fast beamforming training and tracking, we first investigate a hierarchical structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhenyu Xiao , Pengfei Xia , Xiang-Gen Xia

Recently, movable antenna (MA) array becomes a promising technology for improving the communication quality in wireless communication systems. In this letter, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled multi-user multi-input-single-output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Wenchao Liu , Xuhui Zhang , Huijun Xing , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture, wherein a large number of access points (APs) is deployed in place of large co-located massive MIMO arrays. We consider also a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Carmen D'Andrea , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Giovanni Geraci , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Stefano Buzzi

UAV-based wireless systems, such as wireless relay and remote sensing, have attracted great attentions from academia and industry. To realize them, a high-performance wireless aerial communication system, which bridges UAVs and ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Tao Yu , Kiyomichi Araki , Kei Sakaguchi