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The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility, flexibility, and adaptive altitude, UAVs admit several key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Young-Han Nam , Merouane Debbah

A high performance multi-UAV communication system, which bridges multiple UAVs and ground station, is one of the key enablers to realize a variety of UAV-based systems. To address the issues such as the low spectrum efficiency caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Tao Yu , Kiyomichi Araki , Kei Sakaguchi

To provide a reliable wireless uplink for users in a given ground area, one can deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs). In another application, one can use UAVs to collect data from sensors on the ground. For a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jun Guo , Philipp Walk , Hamid Jafarkhani

LoRa technology enables long-range communication with low-power consumption for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices in the urban and suburban environment. However, due to terrestrial structures in urban and suburban environments, the link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-01 Vageesh Anand Dambal , Sameer Mohadikar , Abhaykumar Kumbhar , Ismail Guvenc

Communications between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an important role in deploying aerial networks. Although some studies reveal that drone-based air-to-air (A2A) channels are relatively clear and thus can be modeled as free-space…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Zhuangzhuang Cui , Abdul Saboor , Achiel Colpaert , Sofie Pollin

The radio wave propagation channel is central to the performance of wireless communication systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel machine learning-empowered methodology for wireless channel modeling. The key ingredients include a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Ge Cao , Zhen Peng

Many emerging technologies for the next generation wireless network prefer line-of-sight (LOS) propagation conditions to fully release their performance advantages. This paper studies 3D unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) placement to establish…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Yuanshuai Zheng , Junting Chen

Current studies on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based cellular deployment consider UAVs as aerial base stations for air-to-ground communication. However, they analyze UAV coverage radius and altitude interplay while omitting or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Haneya Naeem Qureshi , Ali Imran

In this work, we develop a measurement platform to capture mobile network performance metrics including coverage and quality of service in regions where conventional coverage testing approaches are frequently time-intensive,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sherwan Jalal Abdullah , Sravan Reddy Chintareddy , Victor S. Frost , Shawn Keshmiri , Morteza Hashemi

In this paper, the efficient deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with directional antennas acting as wireless base stations that provide coverage for ground users is analyzed. First, the downlink coverage probability for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Path loss is a significant component of wireless communication channel design and analysis and reflects the reduction in a transmitted signal's power density. Due to the differences in the propagation conditions, wireless aerial channels'…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Hazim Shakhatreh , Waed Malkawi , Ahmad Sawalmeh , Muhannad Almutiry , Ali Alenezi

This paper presents an experimental measurement platform for the research and development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) localization algorithms using radio emission and reflectivity. We propose a cost-effective, flexible testbed made…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Julia Beuster , Carsten Andrich , Michael Döbereiner , Steffen Schieler , Maximilian Engelhardt , Christian Schneider , Reiner Thomä

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become important in many applications including last-mile deliveries, surveillance and monitoring, and wireless networks. This paper aims to design UAV trajectories that simultaneously perform multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Mohammadjavad Khosravi , Hamid Saeedi , Hossein Pishro-Nik

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly for small UAVs, due to their affordable prices, ease of availability, and ease of operability. Existing and future applications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-08 Wahab Khawaja , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak , Uwe-Carsten Fiebig , Nicolas Schneckenberger

The evolution toward 6G communication systems is expected to rely on integrated three-dimensional network architectures where terrestrial infrastructures coexist with non-terrestrial stations such as satellites, enabling ubiquitous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Nicolò Cenni , Marina Barbiroli , Vittorio Degli-Esposti , Enrico M. Vitucci , Carla Amatetti , Franco Fuschini

Ensuring reliable and seamless wireless connectivity for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as a critical requirement for a wide range of applications. The increasing deployment of UAVs has increased the significance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Sung Joon Maeng , Hyeokjun Kwon , Ozgur Ozdemir , İsmail Güvenç

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained great interest for rapid deployment in both civil and military applications. UAV communication has its own distinctive channel characteristics compared with widely used cellular and satellite…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Aziz Altaf Khuwaja , Yunfei Chen , Nan Zhao , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Paul Dobbins

This radio channel measurement campaign characterizes the propagation conditions experienced in a dense urban environment over fixed backhaul links between wireless devices that are mounted on utility or traffic light poles. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Michael W. Wasson , Geoffrey G. Messier , Devin P. Smith

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity in the communications research community because of their versatility in placement and potential to extend the functions of communication networks. However, there remains still a gap in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Achiel Colpaert , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin

In this work, an detection strategy based on multiple antennas with beam sweeping is developed to detect UAV's potential transmission in wireless networks. Specifically, suspicious angle range where the UAV may present is divided into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jinsong Hu , Yongpeng Wu , Riqing Chen , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang