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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based base stations offer a promising solution in emergencies where the rapid deployment of cutting-edge networks is crucial for maximizing life-saving potential. Optimizing the strategic positioning of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mario Rico Ibanez , Azim Akhtarshenas , David Lopez-Perez , Giovanni Geraci

In this paper, we investigate the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided simultaneous uplink and downlink transmission networks, where one UAV acting as a disseminator is connected to multiple access points, and the other UAV acting as a base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Qingqing Wu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as aerial base stations, are a promising solution for providing wireless communications, thanks to their high flexibility and autonomy. Moreover, emerging services, such as extended reality, require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Javad Sabzehali , Vijay K. Shah , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey H. Reed

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer dynamic trajectory control, enabling them to avoid obstacles and establish line-of-sight (LoS) wireless channels with ground nodes (GNs), unlike traditional ground-fixed base stations. This study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Gitae Park , Kanghyun Heo , Kisong Lee

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based aerial base stations (BSs) can provide rapid communication services to ground users and are thus promising for future communication systems. In this paper, we consider a scenario where no functional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-09 Jingcong Sun , Christos Masouros

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider downlink scenarios from an aerial base station to ground users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly useful for tasks which require the acquisition of data over large areas. The coverage problem, i.e., the problem of periodically visiting all subregions of an area at a desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Floriana Benedetti , Alessio Capitanelli , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Gianni Vercelli

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks are not operational due to natural disasters. They can also be used to supplement the ground base station in order to provide better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Issa Khalil

In terrestrial communication networks without fixed infrastructure, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted mobile base stations (MBSs) provide an efficient solution to achieve wireless connectivity. This letter aims to minimize the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Jiangbin Lyu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang , Teng Joon Lim

Drone base stations (DBSs) can enhance network coverage and area capacity by moving supply towards demand when required. This degree of freedom could be especially useful for future applications with extreme demands, such as ultra reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Elham Kalantari , Irem Bor-Yaliniz , Abbas Yongacoglu , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimizing the trajectory of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Base Station (BS). We consider a map characterized by a traffic intensity of users to be served. The UAV BS must travel from a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Marceau Coupechoux , Jérôme Darbon , Jean-Marc Kélif , Marc Sigelle

This paper proposes a time-efficient mechanism to decrease the on-line computing time of solving the joint unmanned aerial vehicle base station (UAV-BS) deployment and user/sensor association (UDUA) problem aiming at maximizing the downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bo Ma , Zitian Zhang , Jiliang Zhang , Jie Zhang

Properly 3D placement of unmanned aerial vehicle mounted base stations (UAV-BSs) can effectively prolong the life-time of the mobile ad hoc network, since UAVs are usually powered by batteries. This paper involves the on-board circuit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Jiaxun Lu , Shuo Wan , Xuhong Chen , Pingyi Fan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-to-Ground path loss model, which assumes that the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Bo Ji

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be utilized as aerial base stations (ABSs) to provide wireless connectivity for ground users (GUs) in various emergency scenarios. However, it is a NP-hard problem with exponential complexity in $M$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiangbin Lyu , Xu Chen , Jiefeng Zhang , Liqun Fu

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs) is envisaged as a key enabler for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond-5G networks. Specifically, aerial base stations (UAV-BS) are expected to provide ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Wael Jaafar , Shimaa Naser , Sami Muhaidat , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Halim Yanikomeroglu

The deployment of aerial base stations (ABSs) on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents a promising solution for extending cellular connectivity to areas where terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. A pivotal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Daniel Romero , Pham Q. Viet , Raju Shrestha

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is one of the technological breakthroughs that supports a variety of services, including communications. UAV will play a critical role in enhancing the physical layer security of wireless networks. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Ali Behfarnia , Vuk Marojevic

In Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) systems, UAVs can carry edge servers to help ground user equipment (UEs) offloading their computing tasks to the UAVs for execution. This paper aims to minimize the total…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sujunjie Sun , Guopeng Zhang , Haibo Mei , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang