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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial for advancing railway communication by offering reliable connectivity, adaptive coverage, and mobile edge services . This survey examines UAV-assisted approaches for 6G railway needs including…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Aamer Mohamed Huroon , Li-Chun Wang

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

This paper investigates the semantic communication and cooperative tracking control for an UAV swarm comprising a leader UAV and a group of follower UAVs, all interconnected via unreliable wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Minjie Tang , Chenyuan Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

With the assistance of device-to-device (D2D) communications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are anticipated to support widespread applications in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless systems, by providing seamless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-11 B. Yang , T. Taleb , Z. Wu , L. Ma

Numerous communications and networking challenges prevent deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in extreme environments where the existing wireless technologies are mainly ground-focused; and, as a consequence, the air-to-air channel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Alireza Mohammadi , Mehdi Rahmati , Hafiz Malik

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 past few years have witnessed a tremendous increase on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civilian applications, which call for high-performance communication between UAVs and their ground clients, especially when they are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

This paper proposes a novel UAV-to-Vehicle (U2V) channel model for sixth-generation (6G) intelligent sensing-communication integration, based on three-dimensional (3D) scatterer prediction. To explore the mapping relationship between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Shuo Wang , Zengrui Han , Lu Bai , Xiang Cheng

In this paper, a dual-hop cooperative satellite-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system including a satellite (S), a group of cluster headers (CHs), which are respectively with a group of uniformly distributed UAVs, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yu Tian , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

For unforeseen emergencies, such as natural disasters and pandemic events, it is highly demanded to cope with the explosive growth of mobile data traffic in extremely critical environments. An Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleet is an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Zhuohui Yao , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Tao Zhang , Hailin Zhang

A network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provides distributed coverage, reconfigurability, and maneuverability in performing complex cooperative tasks. However, it relies on wireless communications that can be susceptible to cyber…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Rayan Bahrami , Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become extremely popular for both military and civilian applications due to their ease of deployment, cost-effectiveness, high maneuverability, and availability. Both applications, however, need reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Mohammed Gharib , Bryce Hopkins , Jackson Murrin , Andre Koka , Fatemeh Afghah

In intelligent low-altitude networks, integrating monitoring tasks into communication unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can consume resources and increase handoff latency for communication links. To address this challenge, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Jiahui Liang , Wenlihan Lu , Tianyi Liu , Kang Kang , Guixin Pan , Liuqing Yang , Xinhu Zheng , Shijian Gao

In this paper, we analyze the impact of a friendly unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) jammer on UAV communications in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. We first present channel components determined by the line-of-sight (LoS) probability…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Minsu Kim , Seongjun Kim , Jemin Lee

In this paper, we propose a dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure communication and sensing (SCS) scheme for an air-to-ground integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a dual-functional source UAV and jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Libiao Lou , Yuan Liu , Fotis Foukalas , Hongjiang Lei , Gaofeng Pan , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

With the increasing prevalence of drones in various industries, the navigation and tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments, particularly GNSS-denied areas, have become crucial concerns. To address this need,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Iacopo Catalano , Xianjia Yu , Jorge Pena Queralta

Cooperating small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will open up new application fields within next-generation Intelligent Transportation Sytems (ITSs), e.g., airborne near field delivery. In order to allow the exploitation of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Benjamin Sliwa , Manuel Patchou , Christian Wietfeld

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm has emerged as a promising novel paradigm to achieve better coverage and higher capacity for future wireless network by exploiting the more favorable line-of-sight (LoS) propagation. To reap the potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Lingyun Zhou , Xihan Chen , Mingyi Hong , Shi Jin , Qingjiang Shi

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is steadily growing as a promising technology for next-generation communication systems due to their appealing features such as wide coverage with high altitude, on-demand low-cost deployment, and fast…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Osamah A. Abdullah , Michael C. Batistatos , Hayder Al-Hraishawi

Sensing-assisted predictive beamforming, as one of the enabling technologies for emerging integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) paradigm, shows significant promise for enhancing various future unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Yifan Jiang , Qingqing Wu , Hongxun Hui , Wen Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng