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One of the major challenges slowing down the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (ABSs) is the limited on-board power supply which reduces the UAV's flight time. Using a tether to provide UAVs with power can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Safa Khemiri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has driven the widespread adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This growing deployment presents new challenges for UAV trajectory planning in complex urban environments. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yanwei Gong , Junchao Fan , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Yingying Yao , Xiaolin Chang

In this paper, the optimization of deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over a reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-assisted visible light communication (VLC) system is studied. In the considered model, UAVs are required to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Yihan Cang , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Chongwen Huang

Augmenting wireless networks with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, offers a promising avenue for providing reliable, cost-effective, and on-demand wireless services to desired areas. However, existing UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Aksh Garg

With growing popularity, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are pivotally extending conventional terrestrial Internet of Things (IoT) into the sky. To enable high-performance two-way communications of UAVs with their ground pilots/users,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-26 Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled Internet of things (IoT) systems have become an important part of future wireless communications. To achieve higher communication rate, the joint design of UAV trajectory and resource allocation is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Yingchao Jiao , Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Yinyu Wu , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Xinping Guan

Modern communication systems need to fulfill multiple and often conflicting objectives at the same time. In particular, new applications require high reliability while operating at low transmit powers. Moreover, reliability constraints may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Irshad A. Meer , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Mustafa Ozger , H. Vincent Poor , Cicek Cavdar

In this paper, we study the trajectory design for a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with given initial and final locations, while communicating with the ground base stations (GBSs) along its flight. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless communication systems where a UAV supports uplink communications of multiple ground nodes (GNs) while flying over the area of the interest. In this system, the propulsion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Subin Eom , Hoon Lee , Junhee Park , Inkyu Lee

Reliable positioning services are extremely important for users and devices in mountainous environments as it enables a variety of location-based applications. However, in such environments, the service reliability of conventional wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Zijie Wang , Rongke Liu , Qirui Liu , Lincong Han

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) is an attractive tool for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, where online exploration is costly and raises safety concerns. In terrain-aware UAV relaying, agents may observe high-dimensional inputs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Joseanne Viana , Viswak R Balaji , Boris Galkin , Lester Ho , Holger Claussen

With the rapid development of aerial infrastructure, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that function as aerial base stations (ABSs) extend terrestrial network services into the sky, enabling on-demand connectivity and enhancing emergency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Enzhi Zhou , Yue Xiao , Ziyue Liu , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

An urban tactical wireless network is considered wherein the base stations are situated on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that provide connectivity to ground assets such as vehicles located on city streets. The UAVs are assumed to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Enass Hriba , Matthew C. Valenti , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we consider an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted cellular system which consists of multiple UAV base stations (BSs) cooperating the terrestrial BSs. In such a heterogeneous network, for cellular operators, the problem is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Chuan-Chi Lai , Li-Chun Wang , Zhu Han

Path planning methods for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in goods delivery have drawn great attention from industry and academics because of its flexibility which is suitable for many situations in the "Last Kilometer" between customer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Linfei Feng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is gaining attention as a potential approach to design trajectories for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) used as flying access points in the context of cellular or Internet of Things (IoT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Omid Esrafilian , Harald Bayerlein , David Gesbert

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be powerful Internet-of-Things components to execute sensing tasks over the next-generation cellular networks, which are generally referred to as the cellular Internet of UAVs. However, due to the high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in controlled airspace presents significant risks, including potential collisions, disruptions to air traffic, and security threats. Ensuring the safe and efficient operation of airspace,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Francisco Giral , Ignacio Gómez , Soledad Le Clainche

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in 5G NR networks experience propagation and interference conditions that vary significantly with altitude and differ substantially from those experienced by terrestrial users. This is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Md Sharif Hossen , Vijay K. Shah , Ismail Guvenc