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This paper presents a novel dynamic coverage control algorithm allowing a group of robots to track an optimal-deployment configuration for arbitrary time-varying density functions. Building on singular perturbation theory, the proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Brandon Bao , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

This letter proposes an analytical framework to evaluate the coverage performance of a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network in which UAV user equipments (UAV-UEs) are equipped with directional antennas and move according…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Hongguang Sun , Chao Ma , Linyi Zhang , Jiahui Li , Xijun Wang , Shuqin Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

Although airborne base stations (ABSs) mounted on drones show a significant potential to enhance network capacity and coverage due to their flexible deployment, the system performance is severely limited by the endurance of the on-board…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yuan Liao , Vasilis Friderikos

Movable antenna (MA) systems have attracted growing interest in wireless communications due to their ability to reshape wireless channels via local antenna movement within a confined region. However, optimizing antenna positions to enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Changhao Liu , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang , Boyu Ning

Accurate motion capture of aerial robots in 3-D is a key enabler for autonomous operation in indoor environments such as warehouses or factories, as well as driving forward research in these areas. The most commonly used solutions at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Peijun Zhao , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Bing Wang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

The densification of small-cell base stations in a 5G architecture is a promising approach to enhance the coverage area and facilitate the ever increasing capacity demand of end users. However, the bottleneck is an intelligent management of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Syed Awais Wahab Shah , Tamer Khattab , Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir , Mazen Omar Hasna

The effective utilization of unlicensed spectrum is regarded as an important direction to enable the massive access and broad coverage for next-generation wireless local area network (WLAN). Due to the crowded spectrum occupancy and dense…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Haobin Mao , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we consider a novel cellular network for aerial users, which is composed of dedicated base stations (BSs), whose antennas are directed towards aerial users, and traditional terrestrial BSs (TBSs). Besides, the dedicated BSs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Recently, swarms or formations of drones have received increased interest both in the literature and in applications. To dynamically adapt to their operating environment, swarm members need to communicate wirelessly for control and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Samuel Pell , Andreas Willig

To enforce incumbent protection through a spectrum access system (SAS) or future centralized shared spectrum system, dynamic protection area (DPA) neighborhood distances are employed. These distances are distance radii, in which citizen…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-12 Nicholas Papadopoulos , Mark Lofquist , Andrew W. Clegg , Kevin Gifford

Slotted ALOHA (SA) algorithms with Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) decoding have received significant attention lately due to their ability to dramatically increase the throughput of traditional SA. Motivated by increased density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Aleksandar Mastilovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Dragana Bajovic

In this paper, we characterize the performance of a three-dimensional (3D) two-hop cellular network in which terrestrial base stations (BSs) coexist with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to serve a set of ground user equipment (UE). In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Morteza Banagar , Harpreet S. Dhillon

The Davydov D1 ansatz, which assigns an individual bosonic trajectory to each spin state, is an efficient, yet extremely accurate trial state for time-dependent variation of the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model [J. Chem. Phys. 138, 084111…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yao Yao , Yang Zhao

As integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) becomes an integral part of 6G networks, distributed ISAC (DISAC) is expected to enhance both sensing and communication performance through its decentralized architecture. This paper presents a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Yingjie Xu , Xuesong Cai , Michiel Sandra , Sara Willhammar , Fredrik Tufvesson

This paper explores high-altitude platform station (HAPS) systems enabled by integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), in which a HAPS simultaneously transmits communication signals and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging signals to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Xue Zhang , Bang Huang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Small-cell densification is a strategy enabling the offloading of users from macro base stations (MBSs), in order to alleviate their load and increase the coverage, especially, for cell-edge users. In parallel, as the network increases in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Marco Di Renzo , John M. Senior , Symeon Chatzinotas

Device-to-Device (D2D) communications is a technology that allows mobile users to relay information to each other, without access to the cellular network. In this paper, we consider how to dynamically select multi-hop routes for D2D…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Yuan Hu , Weisi Guo , Siyi Wang

Location awareness is a critical issue in wireless sensor network applications. For more accurate location estimation, the two issues should be considered extensively: 1) how to sufficiently utilize the connection information between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Penghong Wang , Xingtao Wang , Wenrui Li , Xiaopeng Fan , Debin Zhao

Directional antennas and beamforming can significantly improve point-to-point wireless links when perfectly aligned. In this letter we investigate the extreme opposite where antenna orientations and positions are chosen at random in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Orestis Georgiou , Camly Nguyen

This paper deals with the stochastic geometry-based characterization of the time-varying performance of a drone cellular network in which the initial locations of drone base stations (DBSs) are modeled as a Poisson point process (PPP) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Morteza Banagar , Harpreet S. Dhillon