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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

We consider a scenario where an UAV-mounted flying base station is providing data communication services to a number of radio nodes spread over the ground. We focus on the problem of resource-constrained UAV trajectory design with (i)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Omid Esrafilian , Rajeev Gangula , David Gesbert

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection has been emerging as a prominent application due to its flexibility, mobility, and low operational cost. However, under the dynamic and uncertainty of IoT data collection and energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nam H. Chu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Van Huynh , Eryk Dutkiewicz

In this letter, we study a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which aims to complete a mission of flying between two pre-determined locations while maintaining satisfactory communication quality with the ground base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Xiangming Du , Shuowen Zhang , Francis C. -M. Lau

This paper studies energy-efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communications, where the UAV acts as a flying base station (BS) to serve the ground users (GUs) within some predetermined latency constraints, e.g.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Dinh-Hieu Tran , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Shahram ShahbazPanahi , Björn Ottersten

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are usually dispatched as mobile sinks to assist data collection in large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, when considering the limitations of UAV's mobility and communication capabilities in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xindi Wang , Chi-Tsun Cheng , Lei Deng , Xiaojing Chen , Fu Xiao

The next era of information revolution will rely on aggregating big data from massive numbers of devices that are widely scattered in our environment. Most of these devices are expected to be of low-complexity, low-cost, and limited power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Osama M. Bushnaq , Abdulkadir Celik , Hesham ElSawy , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

By fully exploiting the mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAV-based aerial base stations (BSs) can move closer to ground users to achieve better communication conditions. In this paper, we consider a scenario where an aerial BS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-24 Jingcong Sun , Christos Masouros

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Data transport has attracted a lot of attention and applications, as a modern traffic engineering technique used in data sensing, transport, and delivery to where infrastructure is available for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Emmanuel Tuyishimire , Antoine Bagula , Slim Rekhis , Noureddine Boudriga

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, where a UAV is dispatched to collect the sensed data from distributed sensor nodes (SNs) for estimating an unknown parameter. It is revealed that in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Cheng Zhan , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Efficient data processing and computation are essential for the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) to empower various applications, which yet can be significantly bottlenecked by the limited energy capacity and computation capability of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Xiao Tang , Hongrui Zhang , Ruonan Zhang , Deyun Zhou , Yan Zhang , Zhu Han

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted Internet-of-Things (IoT) system in a sophisticated three-dimensional (3D) environment, where the UAV's trajectory is optimized to efficiently collect data from multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yang Wang , Zhen Gao , Jun Zhang , Xianbin Cao , Dezhi Zheng , Yue Gao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo

This paper studies a rechargeable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted wireless network, where a UAV is dispatched to disseminate information to a group of ground terminals (GTs) and returns to a recharging station (RS) before the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Yuan Liao , Vasilis Friderikos

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been emerging as an effective solution for IoT data collection networks thanks to their outstanding flexibility, mobility, and low operation costs. However, due to the limited energy and uncertainty from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nam H. Chu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Van Huynh , Eryk Dutkiewicz

In this paper, we propose a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing, communication, and computation network. Specifically, the treble-functional UAVs are capable of offering communication and edge computing services…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sicong Peng , Bin Li , Lei Liu , Zesong Fei , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained a lot of popularity in diverse wireless communication fields. They can act as high-altitude flying relays to support communications between ground nodes due to their ability to provide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Hakim Ghazzai , Mahdi Ben Ghorbel , Andreas Kassler , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectories for multiple UAVs while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground base stations (GBSs) is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation design for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication systems, where a UAV is dispatched to provide communications to multiple user nodes. Our objective is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ruide Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Lei Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan , Jianping An

Future Internet-of-Things (IoT) has high demand for energy-saving communications, especially in remote areas and smart cities. To meet this demand, we propose novel Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-assisted backscatter communications, where a UAV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Shengzhi Yang , Yansha Deng , Xuanxuan Tang , Yuan Ding , Jianming Zhou