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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication is a promising technology to extend coverage and enhance throughput for traditional terrestrial wireless communication systems. In this paper, we consider a UAV-enabled wireless sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Jingwei Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data collector for the ground sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network lifetime. Specifically, since the UAV can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Cheng Zhan , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This paper proposes a UAV-assisted forwarding system based on distributed beamforming to enhance age of information (AoI) in Internet of Things (IoT). Specifically, UAVs collect and relay data between sensor nodes (SNs) and the remote base…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Zifan Lang , Guixia Liu , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Victor C. M. Leung

In this paper, we study a cellular-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system consisting of one UAV and multiple ground base stations (GBSs). The UAV has a mission of flying from an initial location to a final location,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This letter investigates the transmit power and trajectory optimization problem for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided networks. Different from majority of the existing studies with fixed communication infrastructure, a dynamic scenario is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-17 Haichao Wang , Guochun Ren , Jin Chen , Guoru Ding , Yijun Yang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are promising for providing communication services due to their advantages in cost and mobility, especially in the context of the emerging Metaverse and Internet of Things (IoT). This paper considers a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Peiyuan Si , Liangxin Qian , Jun Zhao , Kwok-Yan Lam

In this paper, we design a navigation policy for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) where mobile base stations (BSs) are deployed to improve the data freshness and connectivity to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. First, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Sarder Fakhrul Abedin , Md. Shirajum Munir , Nguyen H. Tran , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of ground nodes (GNs) via distributed beamforming. We consider two scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into wireless communication systems has emerged as a transformative approach, promising cost-efficient connectivity. This paper addresses the optimization of the dynamic time-splitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Trinh Van Chien , Nguyen Minh Quan , Oh-Soon Shin , Van-Dinh Nguyen

The integration of wireless power transfer (WPT) with Internet of Things (IoT) offers promising solutions for sensing applications, but faces significant challenges when deployed in hard-to-access areas such as high-temperature…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Wen Zhang , Aimin Wang , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Weijie Yuan , Dusit Niyato

This letter investigates the joint sensing problem between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and base stations (BS) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with fluid antennas (FA). In this system, the BS enhances its sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Xingtao Yang , Zhenghe Guo , Siyun Liang , Zhaohui Yang , Chen Zhu , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, the efficient deployment and mobility of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), used as aerial base stations to collect data from ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is investigated. In particular, to enable reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

This paper studies a new mobile edge computing (MEC) setup where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is served by cellular ground base stations (GBSs) for computation offloading. The UAV flies between a give pair of initial and final…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication has emerged as a prominent technology for emergency communications (e.g., natural disaster) in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks to enhance the ability of disaster prediction, damage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Dinh-Hieu Tran , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Sumit Gautam , Symeon Chatzinotas , Thang X. Vu , Bjorn Ottersten

This paper presents a new method for integrated time-optimal routing and trajectory optimization of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Our approach extends the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem by accounting for the limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Fabian Meyer , Katharina Glock

This paper considers multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to assist sensing data transmissions from the ground users (GUs) to a remote base station (BS). Each UAV collects sensing data from the GUs and then forwards the sensing data to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yusi Long , Songhan Zhao , Shimin Gong , Bo Gu , Dusit Niyato , Xuemin , Shen

In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs coordinated by a base station (BS) to help the ground users (GUs) to offload their sensing data. Different UAVs can adapt their trajectories and network formation to expedite data transmissions via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shimin Gong , Meng Wang , Bo Gu , Wenjie Zhang , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

Future wireless networks are envisioned to support both sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) services. However, conventional integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks may not be suitable due to the ignorance of diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wenhao Zhuang , Xinyu He , Yuyi Mao , Juan Liu

UAVs are increasingly becoming vital tools in various wireless communication applications including internet of things (IoT) and sensor networks, thanks to their rapid and agile non-terrestrial mobility. Despite recent research, planning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Pei-Fa Sun , Yujae Song , Kang-Yu Gao , Yu-Kai Wang , Changjun Zhou , Sang-Woon Jeon , Jun Zhang

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is recently getting significant attention due to a variety of practical use cases, such as surveillance, data gathering, and commodity delivery. Since UAVs are powered by batteries, energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan