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In this paper, we propose a selection region based multihop routing protocol with directional antennas for wireless mobile ad hoc networks, where the selection region is defined by two parameters: a reference distance and the beamwidth of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Di Li , Changchuan Yin , Changhai Chen

Drone base stations (DBSs) have recently gained wide popularity as a possible solution to provide wireless connectivity in a variety of scenarios, for example, in inaccessible terrains such as connectivity over vast areas of a water body or…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Aniq Ur Rahman , Agnivesh Adhikari

High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) offer a promising solution for wide-area wireless coverage in maritime regions lacking terrestrial infrastructure. However, maintaining reliable performance is challenging due to dynamic ship mobility…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Azim Akhtarshenas , German Svistunov , Matteo Bernabè , Kuangyu Zheng , David López-Pérez

The Dynamic Targeting (DT) mission concept is an approach to satellite observation in which a lookahead sensor gathers information about the upcoming environment and uses this information to intelligently plan observations. Previous work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Akseli Kangaslahti , Itai Zilberstein , Alberto Candela , Steve Chien

This paper proposes Drone Squadron Optimization, a new self-adaptive metaheuristic for global numerical optimization which is updated online by a hyper-heuristic. DSO is an artifact-inspired technique, as opposed to many algorithms used…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Vinícius Veloso de Melo , Wolfgang Banzhaf

To make better use of file diversity provided by random caching and improve the successful transmission probability (STP) of a file, we consider retransmissions with random discontinuous transmission (DTX) in a large-scale cache-enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Wanli Wen , Ying Cui , Fu-Chun Zheng , Shi Jin , Yanxiang Jiang

This paper studies the feasibility of supporting drone operations using existent cellular infrastructure. We propose an analytical framework that includes the effects of base station (BS) height and antenna radiation pattern, drone antenna…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Fernando Rosas , Sofie Pollin

Accurate localization is critical for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Using hop loss in DV-Hop-based algorithms is a promising approach. Nevertheless, challenges lie in overcoming the computational complexity caused by re-calculating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zhengdi Shen , Qiran Wang

Drone base stations can assist cellular networks in a variety of scenarios. To serve the maximum number of users in an area without apriori user distribution information, we proposed a two-stage algorithm to find the optimal deployment of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Xiaohui Li , Li Xing

Using drone base stations (drone-BSs) in wireless networks has started attracting attention. Drone-BSs can assist the ground BSs in both capacity and coverage enhancement. One of the important problems about integrating drone-BSs to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Elham Kalantari , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

Mobile operators commonly use macro cells with traditional wide beam antennas for wider coverage in the cell, but future capacity demands cannot be achieved by using them only. It is required to achieve maximum practical capacity from macro…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Muhammad Usman Sheikh , Jukka Lempiainen

In this paper, we propose a new six-dimensional (6D) movable antenna (6DMA) system for future wireless networks to improve the communication performance. Unlike the traditional fixed-position antenna (FPA) and existing fluid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaodan Shao , Qijun Jiang , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided cell-free multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. In this system, each distributed access point (AP) can flexibly adjust its array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Jianquan Wang , Wanbin Tang , Rui Zhang

In drone-assisted mobile networks, Drone-mounted Base Stations (DBSs) are responsively and flexibly deployed over any Places of Interest (PoI), such as sporadic hotspots and disaster-struck areas, where the existing mobile network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Liangkun Yu , Xiang Sun , Sihua Shao , Yougan Chen , Rana Albelaihi

To improve capacity and overcome some of the limitations of cellular wireless networks, drones with aerial base stations can be deployed to assist the terrestrial cellular wireless networks. The mobility of drones allows flexible network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Mohammad Salehi , Ekram Hossain

The six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is a promising technology to fully exploit spatial variation in wireless channels by allowing flexible adjustment of three-dimensional (3D) positions and rotations of antennas at the transceiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Qijun Jiang , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

The use of drone small cells (DSCs) has recently drawn significant attentions as one key enabler for providing air-to-ground communication services in various situations. This paper investigates the co-channel deployment of dense DSCs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-08 Zihe Zhang , Lixin Li , Wei Liang , Xu Li , Ang Gao , Wei Chen , Zhu Han

Providing seamless connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle user equipments (UAV-UEs) is very challenging due to the encountered line-of-sight interference and reduced gains of down-tilted base station (BS) antennas. For instance, as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Boris Galkin , Nicola Marchetti

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, the demand for cellular-enabled low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) is rising significantly. The three-dimensional mobility of drones will lead to frequent handovers (HOs) in cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jingli Li , Yiyan Ma , Bo Ai , Weijie Yuan , Qingqing Cheng , Guoyu Ma , Mi Yang , Yunlong Lu , Wenwei Yue , Zhangdui Zhong

In this report, we consider how to dynamically select transmission bands and multi-hop routes for device-to-device (D2D) communications in co-existence with a cellular network overlay. Firstly, we consider different wireless routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Yuan Hu