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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently found abundant applications in the public and civil domains. To ensure reliable control and navigation, connecting UAVs to controllers via existing cellular network infrastructure, i.e., ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Robert Schober , Khaled B. Letaief

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for wireless communications has rapidly grown into a research hotspot as the mass production of high-performance, low-cost, intelligent UAVs become more practical and feasible. In the meantime, fifth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Wei Xu , Marvin Yuen

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. To facilitate the large-scale usage of UAVs for various applications in practice, we provide a comprehensive survey on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Qingheng Song , Yong Zeng , Jie Xu , Shi Jin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are foreseen to constitute promising airborne communication devices as a benefit of their superior channel quality. But UAV-to-ground (U2G) communications are vulnerable to eavesdropping. Hence, we conceive a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Zhong Zheng , Xinyao Wang , Zesong Fei , Qingqing Wu , Bin Li , Lajos Hanzo

As 5G wireless systems and networks are now being globally commercialized and deployed, more diversified application scenarios are emerging, quickly reshaping our societies and paving the road to the beyond 5G (6G) era when terahertz (THz)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Mengan Song , Yiming Huo , Tao Lu , Xiaodai Dong , Zhonghua Liang

Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into future wireless systems such as the fifth-generation (5G) cellular network is anticipated to bring significant benefits for both UAV and telecommunication industries. Generally speaking, UAVs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Qingqing Wu , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

To enhance both the sensing and covert communication performance, a dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided scheme is proposed for integrated sensing and communication networks, in which one UAV maneuvers as the aerial dual-functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jingke Sun , Liang Yang , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an essential role in future wireless communication networks due to their high mobility, low cost, and on-demand deployment. In air-to-ground links, UAVs are widely used to enhance the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hongjiang Lei , Dongyang Meng , Haoxiang Ran , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be used extensively in the near future in applications such as aerial surveillance, transportation, and disaster assistance. The conditions under which UAVs operate are different from those of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-29 Wahab Khawaja , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have been widely accepted as promising technologies to support air-to-ground communications in the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. This paper proposes a novel air-to-ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xiao Fan , Peiran Wu , Minghua Xia

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond cellular networks is a promising solution to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we provide a performance analysis for practical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled networks. By considering both line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions between aerial base stations (BSs) and ground…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Chang Liu , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Qingzhi Li , Zihuai Lin , Ying-Chang Liang

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks require accurate Air-to-Air (A2A) channel models, but most existing work focuses on Air-to-Ground links and leaves the sub-6 GHz A2A channel poorly characterized. We present preliminary 3.4 GHz A2A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Anıl Gürses , John Kesler , Mihail L. Sichitiu

When considering unidirectional communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying Base Stations (BSs), either uplink or downlink, the system is limited through the co-channel interference that takes place over line-of-sight (LoS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Wenqian Huang , Dong Min Kim , Wenrui Ding , Petar Popovski

With growing popularity, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are pivotally extending conventional terrestrial Internet of Things (IoT) into the sky. To enable high-performance two-way communications of UAVs with their ground pilots/users,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-26 Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

This paper studies the air-to-ground (AG) ultra-wideband (UWB) propagation channel through measurements between 3.1 GHz to 4.8 GHz using unmanned-aerial-vehicles (UAVs). Different line-of-sight (LOS) and obstructed- LOS scenarios and two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-11 Wahab Ali Gulzar Khawaja , Ozgur Ozdemir , Fatih Erden , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) corridor-assisted communication networks are expected to expand significantly in the upcoming years driven by several technological, regulatory, and societal trends. In this new type of networks, accurate and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Harris K. Armeniakos , Viktor Nikolaidis , Petros S. Bithas , Konstantinos Maliatsos , Athanasios G. Kanatas

Due to the decrease in cost, size and weight, \acp{UAV} are becoming more and more popular for general-purpose civil and commercial applications. Provision of communication services to \acp{UAV} both for user data and control messaging by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 José Rodríguez-Piñeiro , Tomás Domínguez-Bolaño , Xuesong Cai , Zeyu Huang , Xuefeng Yin

In this paper, a recently conducted measurement campaign for unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) channels is introduced. The downlink signals of an in-service long-time-evolution (LTE) network which is deployed in a suburban scenario were…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Xuesong Cai , José Rodríguez-Piñeiro , Xuefeng Yin , Bo Ai , Gert Frølund Pedersen , Antonio Pérez Yuste