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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks can provide a resilient communication infrastructure to enhance terrestrial networks in case of traffic spikes or disaster scenarios. However, to be able to do so, they need to be based on…
UAV-based wireless systems, such as wireless relay and remote sensing, have attracted great attentions from academia and industry. To realize them, a high-performance wireless aerial communication system, which bridges UAVs and ground…
For unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, we propose a unified three-dimensional (3D) spatial framework in this paper to model a general case that uncovered users send messages to base stations via UAVs.…
In this work, a relay channel is studied in which a source encoder communicates with a destination decoder through a number of out-of-band relays that are connected to the decoder through capacity-constrained digital backhaul links. This…
In this paper, we propose an efficient transmission scheme for autonomous cooperative Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based multi-hop Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) relay networks. These systems often suffer from…
In this paper, we consider an imperfect hardware hybrid satellite-terrestrial network (HSTN) where the satellite communication with a ground user equipment (UE) is aided by the multiple amplify-and-forward (AF) three-dimensional ($3$D)…
This paper introduces a novel quantum-based method for dynamic beamforming and re-forming in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs), specifically addressing the critical challenges posed by the unavoidable hovering characteristics of UAVs.…
This paper considers the problem of ground user localization based on received signal strength (RSS) measurements obtained by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We treat UAV-user link channel model parameters and antenna radiation pattern of…
Nowadays, the subsistent anisotropic non-Kolmogorov (ANK) turbulence models are all established on the supposition that the long axis of turbulence cell ought to be level with the ground. Nevertheless, Beason et al. and Wang et al. have…
This paper studies the impact of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wobbling on the coherence time of the wireless channel between UAVs and a ground user equipment (UE), using a Rician multi-path channel model. We consider two different…
In this paper, the effect of transmitter beam size on the performance of free space optical (FSO) communication has been determined experimentally. Irradiance profile for varying turbulence strength is obtained using optical turbulence…
Signal fading due to atmospheric channel impairments and pointing error is a major bottleneck for the performance of optical wireless communication (OWC). In this paper, we consider an amplify-and-forward (AF) optical relaying to enhance…
Atmospheric turbulence degrades the performance of free-space optical (FSO) communication and remote sensing systems by introducing phase and intensity distortions. While a majority of research focuses on mitigating these effects to ensure…
We address the challenge of designing cellular networks for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) corridors through a novel data-driven approach. We assess multiple state-of-the-art high-dimensional Bayesian optimization (HD-BO) techniques to…
To integrate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future large-scale deployments, a new wireless communication paradigm, namely, the cellular-connected UAV has recently attracted interest. However, the line-of-sight dominant air-to-ground…
In this paper, we investigate a fluid antenna relay (FAR)-assisted communication system with hybrid relaying scheme selection. By leveraging statistical channel state information (CSI) and distribution characteristics of fluid antenna…
To enable communication-efficient federated learning (FL), this paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled FL system, where the UAV coordinates distributed ground devices for a shared model training. Specifically, by exploiting…
With the rapid development of aerial infrastructure, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that function as aerial base stations (ABSs) extend terrestrial network services into the sky, enabling on-demand connectivity and enhancing emergency…
In this paper, we investigate the modeling and design of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted optical communication systems which are deployed to relax the line-of-sight (LOS) requirement in multi-link free space optical (FSO)…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aided wireless networks have been recently envisioned as a solution to provide a reliable, low latency cellular link for search and rescue operations over the sea. We propose three different network…