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The ever-increasing demand for high data-rate applications and the proliferation of connected devices pose several theoretical and technological challenges for the fifth generation (5G) networks and beyond. Among others, this includes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Rangeet Mitra , Paschalis. C. Sofotasios , Vimal Bhatia , Sami Muhaidat

This study proposes an approach for establishing an optimal multihop ad-hoc network using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to provide emergency communication in disaster areas. The approach includes two stages, one uses particle…

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Visible light communication (VLC) is an emerging technology that enables broadband data rates using the visible spectrum. In this paper, considering slow beam steering where VLC beam directions are assumed to be fixed during a transmission…

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Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) represent a promising architecture that integrates unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial nodes to provide enhanced coverage, reliability, and throughput for diverse applications. However, these…

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Current fifth-generation (5G) networks do not cover maritime areas, causing difficulties in developing maritime Internet of Things (IoT). To tackle this problem, we establish a nearshore network by collaboratively using on-shore terrestrial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xinran Fang , Wei Feng , Yanmin Wang , Yunfei Chen , Ning Ge , Zhiguo Ding

We consider the uplink transmission between a multi-antenna ground station and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm. The UAVs are assumed as intelligent agents, which can explore their optimal three dimensional (3-D) deployment to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ning Gao , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have emerged as a practical solution that provides on-demand services to users in areas where the terrestrial network is non-existent or temporarily unavailable, e.g., due to natural disasters or network…

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This paper proposes a novel simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) emergency communication network. Multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Jiayi Lei , Tiankui Zhang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to enhance connectivity, extend network coverage, and support advanced communication services in sixth-generation (6G) cellular networks, particularly in public and civil domains. Although…

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In the future wireless networks, terrestrial, aerial, space, and maritime wireless networks are integrated into a unified network to meet the needs of a fully connected global network. Nowadays, vehicular communication has become one of the…

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In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system, where a ground node (GN) communicate with a UAV assisted by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the presence of a jammer with imperfect location information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhi Ji , Xinrong Guan , Jia Tu , Qingqing Wu , Wendong Yang

A swarm of cooperating UAVs communicating with a distant multiantenna ground station can leverage MIMO spatial multiplexing to scale the capacity. Due to the line-of-sight propagation between the swarm and the ground station, the MIMO…

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This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless communication systems where a UAV supports uplink communications of multiple ground nodes (GNs) while flying over the area of the interest. In this system, the propulsion…

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The rapid advancement of Low-Altitude Economy Networks (LAENets) has enabled a variety of applications, including aerial surveillance, environmental sensing, and semantic data collection. To support these scenarios, unmanned aerial vehicles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yang Li , Ruichen Zhang , Yinqiu Liu , Guangyuan Liu , Dusit Niyato , Abbas Jamalipour , Xianbin Wang , Dong In Kim

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely deployed to enhance the wireless network capacity and to provide communication services to mobile users beyond the infrastructure coverage. Recently, with the help of a promising technology called…

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As an emerging technology, the simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) can improve the spectrum efficiency (SE) of primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) in cognitive radio (CR) networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Ali Nazari , Ali Olfat

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted a lot of research attention because of their high mobility and low cost in serving as temporary aerial base stations (BSs) and providing high data rates for next-generation communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Yuan-ai Xie , Yanyu Cheng , Jiawen Kang , Dong In Kim

In this paper, we find trajectory planning and power allocation for a vehicular network in which an unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) is considered as a relay to extend coverage for two disconnected far vehicles. We show that in a two-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Omid Abbasi , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Afshin Ebrahimi , Nader Mokari Yamchi

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated communication and localization network in emergency scenarios where a single UAV is deployed as both an airborne base station (BS) and anchor node to assist…

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