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This paper studies a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) system, where a UAV-mounted mobile energy transmitter (ET) is dispatched to deliver wireless energy to a set of on-ground energy receivers (ERs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This paper studies a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) system, where a UAV-mounted energy transmitter (ET) broadcasts wireless energy to charge distributed energy receivers (ERs) on the ground. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) system, in which a UAV equipped with a directional antenna is dispatched to deliver wireless energy to charge two energy receivers (ERs) on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Yundi Wu , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) network, where a UAV flies at a constant altitude in the sky to provide wireless energy supply for a set of ground nodes with a linear topology.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yulin Hu , Xiaopeng Yuan , Jie Xu , Anke Schmeink

In this paper, we propose a novel energy-efficient data collection and wireless power transfer (WPT) framework for internet of things (IoT) applications, via a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) unmanned aerial vehicle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Jiancao Hou , Zhaohui Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become integral enablers for the Internet of Things (IoT) by offering enhanced coverage, improved connectivity and access to remote areas. A critical challenge limiting their operational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Chengzhen Li , Likun Zhang , Chuang Zhang , Jiahui Li , Changyuan Zhao , Ruichen Zhang , Geng Sun

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have a great potential for improving the performance of wireless communication systems due to their wide coverage and high mobility. In this paper, we study a UAV-enabled data collection system, where a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Dingcheng Yang , Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

The development of wireless power transfer (WPT) and Internet of Things (IoT) offers significant potential but faces challenges such as limited energy supply, dynamic environmental changes, and unstable transmission links. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wen Zhang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Dusit Niyato

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided wireless powered communication network (WPCN) systems where a mobile access point (AP) at the UAV serves multiple energy-constrained ground terminals (GTs). Specifically, the UAVs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Junhee Park , Hoon Lee , Subin Eom , Inkyu Lee

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) networks has created an urgent need for sustainable energy solutions, particularly for the battery-constrained spatially distributed IoT nodes. While low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Qingqing Wu , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao , Tony Q. S. Quek

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

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

Wireless power transfer (WPT) prolongs the lifetime of wireless sensor network by providing sustainable power supply to the distributed sensor nodes (SNs) via electromagnetic waves. To improve the energy transfer efficiency in a large WPT…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zhe Wang , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

About 26% of total U.S. energy consumption is used in the transportation sector. Conventional vehicles use fuels such as gasoline, emit harmful gases, and have adverse effects on the environment. Electric vehicles (EVs) provide an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Afshin Ghassemi , Laura Soares , Hao Wang , Zhimin Xi

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

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which a UAV is dispatched as a mobile access point (AP) to serve a set of ground users periodically. The UAV employs the radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Lifeng Xie , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) are promising technologies in 5G/6G wireless communications, while there are several challenges about UAV power allocation and scheduling to enhance the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Hongyang Pan , Yanheng Liu , Geng Sun , Junsong Fan , Shuang Liang , Chau Yuen

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

Wireless power transfer (WPT) is an emerging paradigm that will enable using wireless to its full potential in future networks, not only to convey information but also to deliver energy. Such networks will enable trillions of future…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Bruno Clerckx , Kaibin Huang , Lav R. Varshney , Sennur Ulukus , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to overcome the deployment constraint of Internet of Things (IoT) in remote or rural area. Wirelessly powered communications (WPC) can address the battery limitation of IoT devices through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yalin Liu , Hong-Ning Dai , Qubeijian Wang , Muhammad Imran , Nadra Guizani
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