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The increasing adoption of UAVs with advanced sensors and GPU-accelerated edge computing has enabled real-time AI-driven applications in fields such as precision agriculture, wildfire monitoring, and environmental conservation. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Suman Raj , Rajdeep Singh , Kautuk Astu , Yogesh Simmhan

The environment of low-altitude urban airspace is complex and variable due to numerous obstacles, non-cooperative aircrafts, and birds. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) leveraging environmental information to achieve three-dimension…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Chao Dong , Yifan Zhang , Ziye Jia , Yiyang Liao , Lei Zhang , Qihui Wu

For autonomous vehicles to operate without human intervention, information sharing from local sensors plays a fundamental role. This can be challenging to handle with bandwidth-constrained communication systems, which calls for the adoption…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Matteo Bordin , Marco Giordani , Michele Polese , Tommaso Melodia , Michele Zorzi

In the evolving landscape of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as transformative tools for dynamic and adaptive connectivity. However, dynamically adjusting their position to offer…

Relays are pivotal in military communication networks, expanding coverage and ensuring reliable connectivity in challenging operational environments. While traditional terrestrial relays (TR) are constrained by fixed locations and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Faisal Al-Kamali , Francois Chan , Hussein A. Ammar , James H. Bayes , Claude D'Amours

Artificial intelligence (AI) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided next-generation networking is proposed for dynamic environments. In the AI-enabled UAV-aided wireless networks (UAWN), multiple UAVs are employed as aerial base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Xiao Liu , Mingzhe Chen , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Shuguang Cui , Lajos Hanzo

With the advancement in drone technology, in just a few years, drones will be assisting humans in every domain. But there are many challenges to be tackled, communication being the chief one. This paper aims at providing insights into the…

Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms are valuable for research and development activities or high-end systems that demand real-time adaptable wireless protocols. While low latency can be achieved using the dedicated digital processing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Thijs Havinga , Xianjun Jiao , Muhammad Aslam , Wei Liu , Ingrid Moerman

The paper considers the characteristics of the energy budget for mobile base stations (BSs) in the form of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with Radio Frequency (RF) transceivers, Intelligent Reconfigurable Surfaces (IRSs), and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Adam Samorzewski

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) research faces challenges with safety, scalability, costs, and ecological impact when conducting hardware testing. High-fidelity simulators offer a vital solution by replicating real-world conditions to enable…

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a metamaterial that can be integrated into walls and influence the propagation of electromagnetic waves. This, typically passive radio frequency (RF) technology is emerging for indoor and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Talha Faizur Rahman , Vuk Marojevic

This article investigates the basic design principles for a new Wireless Network Operating System (WNOS), a radically different approach to software-defined networking (SDN) for infrastructure-less wireless networks. Departing from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Zhangyu Guan , Lorenzo Bertizzolo , Emrecan Demirors , Tommaso Melodia

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing an increasingly pivotal role in modern communication networks,offering flexibility and enhanced coverage for a variety of applica-tions. However, UAV networks pose significant challenges due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Wei Zhao , Shaoxin Cui , Wen Qiu , Zhiqiang He , Zhi Liu , Xiao Zheng , Bomin Mao , Nei Kato

In existing wireless networks, the control programs have been designed manually and for certain predefined scenarios. This process is complicated and error-prone, and the resulting control programs are not resilient to disruptive changes.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Maxwell McManus , Yuqing Cui , Josh , Zhang , Jiangqi Hu , Sabarish Krishna Moorthy , Zhangyu Guan , Nicholas Mastronarde , Elizabeth Serena Bentley , Michael Medley

This study investigates an experimental software defined radio (SDR) implementation on 180 GHz. Rate scarcity and frequency sparsity are discussed as hardware bottlenecks. Experimental challenges are explained along with the derived system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Eray Guven , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are proliferating. Applications, such as surveillance, disaster management, and drone racing, place high requirements on the communication with the drones in terms of throughput,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Prabhu Chandhar , Erik G. Larsson

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and communication systems are fundamental elements in Mission Critical services, such as search and rescue. In this article, we introduce an architecture for managing and orchestrating 5G and beyond networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Cristiano Bonato Both , João Borges , Luan Gonçalves , Cleverson Nahum , Ciro Macedo , Aldebaro Klautau , Kleber Cardoso

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as communication platforms is of great practical significance in future wireless networks, especially for on-demand deployment in temporary events and emergency situations. Although prior works…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are widely used as filter, resonator or delay line in electronic systems in a wide range of applications: mobile communication, TVs, radar, stable resonator for clock generation, etc. The resonance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Thierry Aubert , O. Elmazria , M. B. Assouar

Wireless devices need spectrum to communicate. With the increase in the number of devices competing for the same spectrum, it has become nearly impossible to support the throughput requirements of all the devices through current spectrum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Aniq Ur Rahman , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini