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Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications is an enabling technology to transmit control signaling or payload data for UAVs through cellular networks. Due to the line-of-sight (LoS) dominant air-to-ground channels,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Tianshi Ren , Xianchao Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Xiaozheng Gao , Rui Zhang

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm is a promising solution for diverse applications, including cargo delivery and traffic control. However, it is still challenging to communicate with and control the UAV swarm with high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yang Su , Hui Zhou , Yansha Deng , Mischa Dohler

By exploiting the degree of freedom on the altitude, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication can provide ubiquitous communication for future wireless networks. In the case of concurrent transmission of multiple UAVs, the directional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weihao Wang , Zesong Fei , Jing Guo , Salman Durrani , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this paper, an interference-aware path planning scheme for a network of cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proposed. In particular, each UAV aims at achieving a tradeoff between maximizing energy efficiency and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Ursula Challita , Walid Saad , Christian Bettstetter

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used as network processors in mobile networks, but more recently, UAVs have been used in Mobile Edge Computing as mobile servers. However, there are significant challenges to use UAVs in complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Huan Chang , Yicheng Chen , Baochang Zhang , David Doermann

The deployment of beyond fifth-generation (5G) infrastructure over disaster-affected regions, temporary hotspot situations (e.g., massive gatherings, etc.), complex terrains (e.g., sea, hills, marshes, etc.) poses numerous challenges for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Byomakesh Mahapatra , Deepika Gupta , Pankaj Kumar Sharma

Communication with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in current terrestrial networks suffers from poor signal strength due to the down-tilt of the access points (APs) that are optimized to serve ground users ends (GUEs). To solve this, one…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Bayan Al-Nahhas , Anas Chaaban , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology for enabling cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications in the future. Equipped with full-dimensional large arrays, ground base stations (GBSs) can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yi Huang , Qingqing Wu , Rui Lu , Xiaoming Peng , Rui Zhang

The next generation wireless networks need efficient mechanisms for data dissemination that should support users with better Quality of Service (QoS). Nevertheless, the existing solutions are unable to handle this demand and require either…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Vishal Sharma , Kathiravan Srinivasan

It is anticipated that integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), resulting in RIS-assisted UAV networks, will offer improved network connectivity against node failures for the beyond 5G…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi , Shahrokh Valaee

Modern cellular networks are multi-cell and use universal frequency reuse to maximize spectral efficiency. This results in high inter-cell interference. This problem is growing as cellular networks become three-dimensional with the adoption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Mojtaba Vaezi , Xingqin Lin , Hongliang Zhang , Walid Saad , H. Vincent Poor

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system is a prominent concept, where a UAV equipped with a MEC server is deployed to serve a number of terminal devices (TDs) of Internet of Things (IoT) in a finite period.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tiankui Zhang , Yu Xu , Jonathan Loo , Dingcheng Yang , Lin Xiao

The deployment of aerial base stations (ABSs) on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents a promising solution for extending cellular connectivity to areas where terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. A pivotal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Daniel Romero , Pham Q. Viet , Raju Shrestha

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based aerial base stations (BSs) can provide rapid communication services to ground users and are thus promising for future communication systems. In this paper, we consider a scenario where no functional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-09 Jingcong Sun , Christos Masouros

We study the problem of covering an environment using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with limited battery capacity. We consider a scenario where the UAV can land on an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) and recharge the onboard battery. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Kevin Yu , Jason M. O'Kane , Pratap Tokekar

This letter investigates the joint sensing problem between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and base stations (BS) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with fluid antennas (FA). In this system, the BS enhances its sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Xingtao Yang , Zhenghe Guo , Siyun Liang , Zhaohui Yang , Chen Zhu , Zhaoyang Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as flying base stations (BSs) to offload Macro-BSs in hotspots. However, due to the limited battery on-board, UAVs can typically stay in operation for less than 1.5 hours. Afterward, the UAV has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems emerged as a promising solution for providing computation services to mobile users outside of terrestrial infrastructure coverage. As each UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yan Kyaw Tun , Tri Nguyen Dang , Kitae Kim , Madyan Anselwi , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication is a promising technology to extend coverage and enhance throughput for traditional terrestrial wireless communication systems. In this paper, we consider a UAV-enabled wireless sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jingwei Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Edge sensing and computing is rapidly becoming part of intelligent infrastructure architecture leading to operational reliance on such systems in disaster or emergency situations. In such scenarios there is a high chance of power supply…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Talha Azfar , Kaicong Huang , Ruimin Ke