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An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology for providing wireless coverage to ground user devices. For all the infrastructure communication networks destroyed in disasters, UAVs battery life is challenging during service…

Massive MIMO and C-RAN are two promising techniques for implementing future wireless communication systems, where a large number of antennas are deployed either being co-located at the base station (BS) or totally distributed at separate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Liang Liu , Rui Zhang

This paper proposes a distributed multiple relay selection scheme to maximize the satisfaction experiences of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) communication networks. The multi-radio and multi-channel (MRMC) UAV communication system is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Dianxiong Liu , Yuhua Xu , Yitao Xu , Qihui Wu , Jianjun Jing , Yuanhui Zhang , Alagan Anpalagan

This paper considers a downlink transmission of cloud radio access network (C-RAN) in which precoded baseband signals at a common baseband unit are compressed before being forwarded to radio units (RUs) through limited fronthaul capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Kien-Giang Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely employed to enhance the end-to-end performance of wireless communications since the links between UAVs and terrestrial nodes are line-of-sight (LoS) with high probability. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Hongjiang Lei , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Jing Jiang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access services to terrestrial users without geographical limitations and will become an essential part of the future communication system. However, the openness of wireless channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper proposes an ultra-reliable device-centric uplink (URDC-UL) communication scheme for airborne networks. In particular, base stations (BSs) are mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that travel to schedule UL transmissions and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Yasser Nabil , Hesham ElSawy , Suhail Al-Dharrab , Hussein Attia , Hassan Mostafa

This paper considers the joint fronthaul compression and transmit beamforming design for the uplink cloud radio access network (C-RAN), in which multi-antenna user terminals communicate with a cloud-computing based centralized processor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Yuhan Zhou , Wei Yu

Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) are being studied intensively and gaining importance as spectrum is the heavily underutilized. CRN has the capability to exploit smartly the unutilized frequency spectrum. Recently, the research community…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Fatima Zohra Benidris , Badr Benmammar , Leila Merghem-Boulahia , Moez Esseghir

To accomplish various tasks, safe and smooth control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) needs to be guaranteed, which cannot be met by existing ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC). This has attracted the attention of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Wenchao Wu , Yanning Wu , Yuanqing Yang , Yansha Deng

In this paper, we investigate the uplink signal detection approaches in the cell-free massive MIMO systems with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving as aerial access points (APs). The ground users are equipped with multiple antennas and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xuesong Pan , Zhong Zheng , Xueqing Huang , Zesong Fei

This paper investigates the compress-and-forward scheme for an uplink cloud radio access network (C-RAN) model, where multi-antenna base-stations (BSs) are connected to a cloud-computing based central processor (CP) via capacity-limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yuhan Zhou , Yinfei Xu , Wei Yu , Jun Chen

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) concept, in which densely deployed access points (APs) are empowered by cloud computing to cooperatively support mobile users (MUs), to improve mobile data rates, has been recently proposed. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Shixin Luo , Rui Zhang , Teng Joon Lim

In cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), the baseband units and radio units of base stations are separated, which requires high-capacity fronthaul links connecting both parts. In this paper, we consider the delay-aware fronthaul allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Wei Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Mugen Peng

Rotatable antenna (RA) technology can harness additional spatial degrees of freedom by enabling the dynamic three-dimensional orientation control of each antenna. Unfortunately, the hardware cost and control complexity of traditional RA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Qiaoyan Peng , Yanze Zhu , Honghao Wang , Wen Chen , Guoying Zhang

This paper considers the unavailability of complete channel state information (CSI) in ultra-dense cloud radio access networks (C-RANs). The user-centric cluster is adopted to reduce the computational complexity, while the incomplete CSI is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Cunhua Pan , Hani Mehrpouyan , Yuanwei Liu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper, we investigate the uplink (UL) radio resource management for 5G aerial corridors with an open-radio access network (O-RAN)-enabled cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system. Our objective is to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Manobendu Sarker , Md. Zoheb Hassan , Xianbin Wang

In an ultra-dense cloud radio access network (UD-CRAN), a large number of remote radio heads (RRHs), typically employed as simple relay nodes, are distributed in a target area, which could even outnumber their served users. However, one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Reuben George Stephen , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising candidate solution for data collection of large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we investigate a UAV-aided WSN, where cluster heads (CHs) receive data from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Jerome Henry

In complex Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks, UAVs can establish dynamic and heterogeneous links with one another for various purposes, such as communication coverage, collective sensing, and task collaboration. These interactions give…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Cunlai Pu , Fangrui Wu , Zhe Wang , Xiangbo Shu