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Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies featuring long-range communication capability and low power consumption will be important for forming the Internet of Things (IoT) consisting of many geographically distributed objects. Among…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) present a promising advanced technology that can enhance people life quality and smartness of cities dramatically and increase overall economic efficiency. UAVs have attained a significant interest in…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used as cost-effective and flexible Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs) to enhance Quality of Service (QoS). In disaster management scenarios, UAV-based networks…

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Today, many critical services and industrial systems rely on wireless networks for interaction with the IoT, hence becoming vulnerable to a broad number of cyber-threats. While detecting this kind of attacks is not difficult with common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Matteo Repetto , Enrico Cambiaso , Fabio Patrone , Sandro Zappatore

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

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 paper proposes an intelligent technique for maximizing the network connectivity and provisioning desired quality of service (QoS) of integration of internet of things (IoT) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Prediction of the signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-22 S. H. Alsamhi , Ou Ma , M. S. Ansari

Advances in the Internet of Things are revolutionizing data acquisition, enhancing artificial intelligence and quality of service. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an efficient data-gathering solution across varied environments. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Priyavrat Dev Sharma , Ibrahim Sorkhoh , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

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

Due to the sustainable power supply and environment-friendly features, self-powered IoT devices have been increasingly employed in various fields such as providing observation data in remote areas, especially in rural areas or post-disaster…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Wen Zhang , Wenlu Wang , Mehdi Sookhak , Chen Pan

The Internet of Things (IoT) has started to empower the future of many industrial and mass-market applications. Localization techniques are becoming key to add location context to IoT data without human perception and intervention.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-06 You Li , Yuan Zhuang , Xin Hu , Zhouzheng Gao , Jia Hu , Long Chen , Zhe He , Ling Pei , Kejie Chen , Maosong Wang , Xiaoji Niu , Ruizhi Chen , John Thompson , Fadhel Ghannouchi , Naser El-Sheimy

By serving as an analog to traffic signal lights, communication signaling for drone to drone communications holds the key to the success of advanced air mobility (AAM) in both urban and rural settings. Deployment of AAM applications such as…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising solution for enhancing wireless connectivity and Quality of Service (QoS) in urban environments, acting as aerial Wi-Fi access points or cellular base stations. Their flexibility and rapid…

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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is strongly advocated for sixth-generation (6G) networks, as the 6G standard will not be limited to improving broadband services, but will also target the extension of the geographical cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Data aggregation has become an emerging paradigm to support massive Internet-of-things (IoT), a new and critical use case for fifth-generation new radio (5G-NR). Indeed, data aggregators can complement cellular base stations and process IoT…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Ghaith Hattab , Danijela Cabric

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been considered for telecommunications purposes as relays, caches, or IoT data collectors. In addition to being easy to deploy, their maneuverability allows them to adjust their location…

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Drone base stations can assist cellular networks in a variety of scenarios. To serve the maximum number of users in an area without apriori user distribution information, we proposed a two-stage algorithm to find the optimal deployment of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Xiaohui Li , Li Xing

Distributed learning and inference algorithms have become indispensable for IoT systems, offering benefits such as workload alleviation, data privacy preservation, and reduced latency. This paper introduces an innovative approach that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Dragisa Miskovic

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

Long-range (LoRa) technology is most widely used for enabling low-power wide area networks (WANs) on unlicensed frequency bands. Despite its modest data rates, it provides extensive coverage for low-power devices, making it an ideal…

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