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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a key enabler technology for data collection from Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, effective data collection is challenged by resource constraints and the need for real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Assane Sankara , Daniel Bonilla Licea , Hajar El Hammouti

This work describes the orchestration of a fleet of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for harvesting prioritized traffic from random distributions of heterogeneous users with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) capabilities. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Bharath Keshavamurthy , Nicolo Michelusi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are being increasingly used in a broad range of scenarios and applications. However, their deployment in urban areas poses important technical challenges. One of the most prominent concerns is the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Zoheb Shaikh , Sabur Baidya , Marco Levorato

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are considered as a promising technique for next-generation communication networks due to their flexibility, mobility, low cost, and the ability to collaboratively and autonomously provide services.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yahao Ding , Zhaohui Yang , Quoc-Viet Pham , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex networked environments, yet the joint optimization of multi-UAV motion control and connectivity remains a fundamental challenge. In this paper, we study a multi-UAV system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zijiang Yan , Hao Zhou , Wael Jaafar , Jianhua Pei , Ping Wang , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Hina Tabassum

The continuous monitoring by drone swarms remains a challenging problem due to the lack of power supply and the inability of drones to land on uneven surfaces. Heterogeneous swarms, including ground and aerial vehicles, can support longer…

The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility, flexibility, and adaptive altitude, UAVs admit several key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Young-Han Nam , Merouane Debbah

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are becoming increasingly popular for various applications. Freely flying drones create highly dynamic environments, where conventional routing algorithms which rely on stationary…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Mehrdad Khaledi , Arnau Rovira-Sugranes , Fatemeh Afghah , Abolfazl Razi

Distributed optimization offers a promising paradigm for trajectory planning in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms, yet its deployment in communication-constrained environments remains challenging due to unreliable links and limited data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yue Yu , Xiaobo Zheng , Shaoming He

Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted increasing attention. By taking into account age-of-information (AoI), we investigate the trajectory planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Zhen Gao

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms are often required in off-grid scenarios, such as disaster-struck, war-torn or rural areas, where the UAVs have no access to the power grid and instead rely on renewable energy. Considering a main…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Igor Donevski , Marco Virgili , Nithin Babu , Jimmy Jessen Nielsen , Andrew J. Forsyth , Constantinos B. Papadias , Petar Popovski

Wireless resource allocation in digital-twin-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms must be both network-feasible and certifiably safe for closed-loop control. Existing packet-level or scalar-priority schedulers cannot meaningfully…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Qingyun Luo , Jingqing Wang , Wenchi Cheng

Distributed learning and inference algorithms have become indispensable for IoT systems, offering benefits such as workload alleviation, data privacy preservation, and reduced latency. This paper introduces an innovative approach that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Dragisa Miskovic

This article investigates the energy efficiency issue in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enhanced Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, where a mobile unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is exploited as a flying base station to collect data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Jingjing Zhao , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of low powered and resource-constrained wireless sensor nodes that are not capable of performing high-complexity algorithms. Integrating these networks into the Internet of Things (IoT)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Gabriel Martins Dias , Cintia Borges Margi , Filipe C. P. de Oliveira , Boris Bellalta

We present Neural-Swarm2, a learning-based method for motion planning and control that allows heterogeneous multirotors in a swarm to safely fly in close proximity. Such operation for drones is challenging due to complex aerodynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Guanya Shi , Wolfgang Hönig , Xichen Shi , Yisong Yue , Soon-Jo Chung

The exponential growth in mobile broadband usage [1] has catalyzed the need for high data rate communication systems. In this regard, activities for standardizing the next generation mobile broadband system, known as the Fifth…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Pranav Jha , Abhay Karandikar

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have enormous potential in the public and civil domains. These are particularly useful in applications where human lives would otherwise be endangered. Multi-UAV systems can collaboratively complete missions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Lav Gupta , Raj Jain , Gabor Vaszkun

Automating the navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in diverse scenarios has gained much attention in recent years. However, teaching UAVs to fly in challenging environments remains an unsolved problem, mainly due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Matthias Müller , Vincent Casser , Neil Smith , Dominik L. Michels , Bernard Ghanem

Inter-connected objects, either via public or private networks are the near future of modern societies. Such inter-connected objects are referred to as Internet-of-Things (IoT) and/or Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). One example of such a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Raja Naeem Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis , Keith Mayes , Oussama Habachi , Damien Sauveron , Andreas Steyven , Serge Chaumette