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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) reduces the computational burden on terminal devices by shortening the distance between these devices and computing nodes. Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with enhanced MEC networks can leverage the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhiying Wang , Tianxi Wei , Gang Sun , Xinyue Liu , Hongfang Yu , Dusit Niyato

Mobile edge computing (MEC) and terahertz (THz)enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems are gaining significant attention for improving user service delays in future mobile networks. This article introduces a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Heekang Song , Hyowoon Seo , Wan Choi

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted much attention due to its flexible deployment and controllable mobility. As the general communication network cannot meet the emergency requirements, in this paper we study the multi-UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yixin Zhang , Wenchi Cheng

This paper aims to exploit the fundamental limits on the downlink coverage and spatial throughput performances of a cellular network comprised of a tier of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations (BSs) using the millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Chun-Hung Liu , Kai-Hsiang Ho , Jwo-Yuh Wu

This paper investigates the secrecy energy efficiency (SEE) maximization problem for unmanned aerial vehicle enabled mobile relaying system, where a high-mobility UAV is exploited to assist delivering the confidential information from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Lin Xiao , Yu Xu , Dingcheng Yang , Yong Zeng

Wireless communication highly depends on the cellular ground base station (GBS). A failure of the cellular GBS, fully or partially, during natural or man-made disasters creates a communication gap in the disaster-affected areas. In such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Naveed Khan , Ayaz Ahmad , Abdul Wakeel , Zeeshan Kaleem , Bushra Rashid , Waqas Khalid

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 propose a novel optimization model for multiple Unmanned Areal Vehicles (UAVs) working as relays and helping Device-to-Device (D2D) communications at the same time. The goal of the UAVs is to operate in an energy-efficient…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ahmad Alsharoa , Murat Yukse

To support large-scale deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future, a new wireless communication paradigm, namely, cellular-connected UAV, has recently received an upsurge of interests in both academia and industry.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network as new aerial users is a promising solution to meet their ever-increasing communication demands in a plethora of applications. Due to the high UAV altitude, the channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are powerful Internet-of-Things components to provide sensing and communications in the air due to their advantages in mobility and flexibility. As aerial users, UAVs are envisioned to support various sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, a novel framework for delay-optimal cell association in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled cellular networks is proposed. In particular, to minimize the average network delay under any arbitrary spatial distribution of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) have been recently applied in the field of mobile edge computing (MEC) to improve the data exchange environment by proactively changing the wireless channels through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xinhong Dai , Bin Duo , Xin Wang , Xiaojun Yuan

The malfunction or interruption of wireless coverage services has been shown to increase the mortality rate during natural disasters. Wireless coverage by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) provides network coverage to ground user devices…

In this letter, we study a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which aims to complete a mission of flying between two pre-determined locations while maintaining satisfactory communication quality with the ground base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Xiangming Du , Shuowen Zhang , Francis C. -M. Lau

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has gained interest in wireless networks for its many uses and advantages such as rapid deployment and multi-purpose functionality. This is why wide deployment of UAVs has the potential to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-26 Mohamed Y. Selim , Ahmad Alsharoa , Ahmed E. Kamal

In this paper, we investigate a mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture with the assistance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV acts as a computing server to help the user equipment (UEs) compute their tasks as well as a relay to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang , Zhongbin Zheng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been recently considered as means to provide enhanced coverage or relaying services to mobile users (MUs) in wireless systems with limited or no infrastructure. In this paper, a UAV-based mobile cloud…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Seongah Jeong , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang

As an emerging field of aerial robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant research interest within the wireless networking research community. As soon as national legislations allow UAVs to fly autonomously, we will…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Debashisha Mishra , Enrico Natalizio

This paper presents a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture for vehicular networks. It is considered that the vehicles should complete latency critical computation intensive tasks either locally…