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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play a key role in 6G-enabled vehicular-to-everything (V2X) communications requiring high data rates, low latency, and reliable connectivity for mission-critical applications. Multi-input…

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This work presents a high-resolution, ray-tracing-based channel modeling for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-to-ground links in a suburban environment at X-band. Using simulations conducted in Wireless InSite, we develop a parametric…

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Because of its high directivity, free-space optical (FSO) communication offers a number of advantages. It can, however, give rise to major system difficulties concerning alignment between two terminals. During the link-acquisition step…

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We address the challenge of designing cellular networks for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) corridors through a novel data-driven approach. We assess multiple state-of-the-art high-dimensional Bayesian optimization (HD-BO) techniques to…

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We propose a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-based millimeter wave (mmWave) backhaul links, that is offered as a cost effective and easy to deploy solution, to connect a disaster or remote area to the nearest core network. First,…

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We propose efficient modelling of optical fiber channel via NLSE-constrained physics-informed neural operator without reference solutions. This method can be easily scalable for distance, sequence length, launch power, and signal formats,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-19 Yuchen Song , Danshi Wang , Qirui Fan , Xiaotian Jiang , Xiao Luo , Min Zhang

The growing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for various applications requires ubiquitous and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these devices and ground terminals. Depending on the application,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Evgenii Vinogradov , Hazem Sallouha , Sibren De Bast , Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Sofie Pollin

Recent studies have shown that satellite communication (SatCom) will have a fundamental role in the next generation non-terrestrial networks (NTN). In SatCom, radio-frequency (RF) or free-space optical (FSO) communications can be used…

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The weak-lensing science of the LSST project drives the need to carefully model and separate the instrumental artifacts from the intrinsic lensing signal. The dominant source of the systematics for all ground based telescopes is the spatial…

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Channel rank and condition number of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channels can be effective indicators of achievable rates with spatial multiplexing in mobile networks. In this paper, we use extensive ray tracing simulations to…

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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…

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In this paper, we present a novel closed-form model (CFM) for accurate and fast evaluation of nonlinear interference in modern ultrawideband coherent optical fiber communication systems. Starting from the Gaussian noise model (GN model),…

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Optical wireless communication (OWC) covering an ultra-wide range of unlicensed spectrum has emerged as an extent efficient solution to mitigate conventional RF spectrum scarcity ranging from communication distances from nm to several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Abu Jahid , Mohammed H. Alsharif , Trevor J. Hall

Flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs) offer a new solution for wireless communications by introducing morphological degrees of freedom, dynamically morphing their three-dimensional shape to ensure multipath signals interfere…

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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication becomes a promising technique to realize the beyond fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, due to the high mobility and maneuverability of UAVs which can adapt to heterogeneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Xuemeng Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The fast motion of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites causes the propagation channel to vary rapidly, and its behavior is strongly shaped by the surrounding environment, especially at low elevation angles where signals are highly susceptible…

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This paper studies the leaderless formation flying problem with collision avoidance for a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which requires the UAVs to navigate through cluttered environments without colliding while maintaining the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Yiming Wang , Yao Fang , Jie Mei , Youmin Gong , Guangfu Ma

Communications between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an important role in deploying aerial networks. Although some studies reveal that drone-based air-to-air (A2A) channels are relatively clear and thus can be modeled as free-space…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Zhuangzhuang Cui , Abdul Saboor , Achiel Colpaert , Sofie Pollin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks can provide a resilient communication infrastructure to enhance terrestrial networks in case of traffic spikes or disaster scenarios. However, to be able to do so, they need to be based on…

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