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Wireless communication involving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to play an important role in future wireless networks. However, different from conventional terrestrial communication systems, UAVs typically have rather limited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Ning Gao , Yong Zeng , Jian Wang , Di Wu , Chaoyue Zhang , Qingheng Song , Jiachen Qian , Shi Jin

As wireless has disrupted communications, wireless will also disrupt the delivery of energy. Future wireless networks will be equipped with (radiative) wireless power transfer (WPT) capability and exploit radio waves to carry both energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Bruno Clerckx , Junghoon Kim , Kae Won Choi , Dong In Kim

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling technologies for UAVs, wireless communication is essential and has drawn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-15 Yong Zeng , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in assisting wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper considers a multi-UAV enabled wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Optimal deployment and movement of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is studied. The considered scenario consists of several ground terminals (GTs) communicating with the UAVs using variable transmission power and fixed data rate.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Erdem Koyuncu , Maryam Shabanighazikelayeh , Hulya Seferoglu

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is strongly advocated for sixth-generation (6G) networks, as the 6G standard will not be limited to improving broadband services, but will also target the extension of the geographical cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we focus on a typical cooperative communication system with one pair of source and destination, where a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying from a start location to an end location serves as a mobile relay. To efficiently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sixing Yin , Jing Tan , Lihua Li

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communication system with energy harvesting, where the UAV transfers energy to the users in half duplex or full duplex, and the users harvest energy for data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Zhaohui Yang , Wei Xu , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

This paper presents a new method for recharging flying base stations, carried by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), using wireless power transfer from dedicated, airborne, Radio Frequency (RF) energy sources. In particular, we study a system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jahan Hassan , Ayub Bokani , Salil S. Kanhere

Recent advances in non-radiative wireless power transfer (WPT) technique essentially relying on magnetic resonance and near-field coupling have successfully enabled a wide range of applications. However, WPT systems based on double…

Thanks to their quick placement and high flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be very useful in the current and future wireless communication systems. With a growing number of smart devices and infrastructure-free communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shuyan Hu , Qingqing Wu , Xin Wang

Despite the increasing popularity of commercial usage of UAVs or drone-delivered services, their dependence on the limited-capacity on-board batteries hinders their flight-time and mission continuity. As such, developing in-situ power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Jahan Hassan , Ayub Bokani , Salil S. Kanhere

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) enables data collection from massive devices to achieve a wide sensing range. Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising paradigm for prolonging the operation time of MCS systems by sustainably transferring power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Yongqing Xu , Haoqing Qi , Zhiqin Wang , Xiang Zhang , Yong Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

Extraction of electromagnetic energy by an antenna from impinging external radiation is at the basis of wireless communications and power transfer (WPT). The maximum of transferred energy is ensured when the antenna is conjugately matched,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Alex Krasnok , Denis G. Baranov , Andrey Generalov , Sergey Li , Andrea Alu

In this paper, we consider an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with wireless power transfer (WPT) where multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based radars serve multiple clusters of energy-limited communication users in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Omid Rezaei , Mohammad Mahdi Naghsh , Seyed Mohammad Karbasi , Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi

The integration of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology in 6G Internet of Things (IoT) networks faces significant challenges in remote areas and disaster scenarios where ground infrastructure is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yue Chen , Hui Kang , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Boxiong Wang , Jiacheng Wang , Cong Liang , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining increasing attention in wireless systems, providing new opportunities to expand the reach and improve the quality of wireless services. Despite their versatility, UAVs are limited by available…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Mohammadreza Barzegaran , Hamid Jafarkhani

This paper proposes a novel design on the wireless powered communication network (WPCN) in dynamic environments under the assistance of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Unlike the existing studies, where the low-power wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Ze Yu Zhao , Yue Ling Che , Sheng Luo , Gege Luo , Kaishun Wu , Victor C. M. Leung

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can enhance the performance of cellular networks, due to their high mobility and efficient deployment. In this paper, we present a first study on how the user mobility affects the UAVs' trajectories of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yao Tang , Man Hon Cheung , Tat-Ming Lok