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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-to-ground (U2G) channel models play a pivotal role for reliable communications between UAV and ground terminal. This paper proposes a three-dimensional (3D) non-stationary hybrid model including both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Boyu Hua , Haoran Ni , Qiuming Zhu , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Tongtong Zhou , Kai Mao , Junwei Bao , Xiaofei Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained great interest for rapid deployment in both civil and military applications. UAV communication has its own distinctive channel characteristics compared with widely used cellular and satellite…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Aziz Altaf Khuwaja , Yunfei Chen , Nan Zhao , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Paul Dobbins

In the design of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless communications, a better understanding of propagation characteristics and an accurate channel model are required. Measurements and comprehensive analysis for the UAV-based air-ground…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Zhuangzhuang Cui , Cesar Briso-Rodriguez , Ke Guan , Cesar Calvo-Ramirez , Bo Ai , Zhangdui Zhong

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly for small UAVs, due to their affordable prices, ease of availability, and ease of operability. Existing and future applications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-08 Wahab Khawaja , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak , Uwe-Carsten Fiebig , Nicolas Schneckenberger

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized as effective platforms for carrying Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs), enabling low-cost, agile, and flexible wireless networks with high Quality…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer promising potential as communications node carriers, providing on-demand wireless connectivity to users. While existing literature presents various wireless channel models, it often overlooks the impact…

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Providing ubiquitous connectivity to diverse device types is the key challenge for 5G and beyond 5G (B5G). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important component of the upcoming wireless networks that can potentially…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Bin Li , Zesong Fei , Yan Zhang

Powered by the advances in microelectronics technologies, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a vast variety of services ranging from surveillance to delivery in both military and civilian domains. It is clear that a successful…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-10 Burak Ede , Serhan Yarkan , Ali Rıza Ekti , Tunçer Baykaş , Hakan Ali Çırpan , Ali Görçin

As essential aerial platforms, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly important role in broad wireless connectivity and high-data-rate transmission for future communication systems. Notably, various communication scenarios are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Zhuangzhuang Cui , Ke Guan , César Briso-Rodríguez , Bo Ai , Zhangdui Zhong , Claude Oestges

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling technologies for UAVs, wireless communication is essential and has drawn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-15 Yong Zeng , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

We present an approach for spatially-consistent semi-deterministic Air-to-Ground (A2G) channel modeling in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-assisted networks. We use efficient 3D building shadow projections to determine Line-of-Sight (LOS) regions,…

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This paper studies optimal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) placement to ensure line-of-sight (LOS) communication and sensing for a cluster of ground users possibly in deep shadow, while the UAV maintains backhaul connectivity with a base…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Yuanshuai Zheng , Junting Chen

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have emerged as a revolutionary technology offering enhanced spatial diversity within a compact form factor. Concurrently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are integral to future networks, necessitating channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Qingqing Wu , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest from the academia and industry most recently. Motivated by the wide usage of UAVs, this paper considers UAV communication with reconfigurable antenna (RA) in the presence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Ayse Betul Buyuksar , Eylem Erdogan , Ibrahim Altunbas

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is anticipated to be widely applied in the forthcoming fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, due to its many advantages such as low cost, high mobility, and on-demand deployment. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Rui Zhang

Future wireless networks demand a more accurate understanding of channel behavior to enable efficient communication with reduced interference. Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are poised to play an integral role in these networks, offering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Mushfiqur Rahman , Ismail Guvenc , Mihail Sichitiu , Jason A. Abrahamson , Bryton J. Petersen , Amitabh Mishra , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Wireless communication systems that include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promise to provide cost-effective wireless connectivity for devices without infrastructure coverage. Compared to terrestrial communications or those based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang , Teng Joon Lim

In this paper, we present a spatially consistent A2G channel model based on probabilistic LOS/NLOS segmentation to parameterize the deterministic path loss and stochastic shadow fading model. Motivated by the limitations of existing…

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Multi-way and device-to-device (D2D) communications are currently considered for the design of future communication systems. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be effectively deployed to extend the communication range of D2D networks. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Jaber Kakar , Anas Chaaban , Vuk Marojevic , Aydin Sezgin

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…

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