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In this work, a delay-tolerant unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relayed covert and secure communication framework is investigated. In this framework, a legitimate UAV serves as an aerial relay to realize communication when the direct link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiacheng Jiang , Hongjiang Lei , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper addresses the challenge of energy-constrained maritime monitoring networks by proposing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing, communication, powering and backhaul transmission scheme with a tailored…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Bohan Li , Jiahao Liu , Yujun Liang , Qian Li , Haochen Liu , Yaoyuan Zhang , Junsheng Mu , Shahid Mumtaz , Sheng Chen

An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network architecture can enable flexible and fast deployment of next-generation cellular networks. However, mutual interference between access and backhaul links, small inter-site distance and spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Abdurrahman Fouda , Ahmed S. Ibrahim , Ismail Guvenc , Monisha Ghosh

Integrated communication and sensing, which can make full use of the limited spectrum resources to perform communication and sensing tasks simultaneously, is an up-and-coming technology in wireless communication networks. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hongjiang Lei , Congke Jiang , Ki-Hong Park , Mohamed A. Aboulhassan , Sen Zhou , Gaofeng Pan

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. To facilitate the large-scale usage of UAVs for various applications in practice, we provide a comprehensive survey on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Qingheng Song , Yong Zeng , Jie Xu , Shi Jin

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Ismail Guvenc , Walid Saad , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

In this paper, we consider multiple solar-powered wireless nodes which utilize the harvested solar energy to transmit collected data to multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the uplink. In this context, we jointly design UAV flight…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Chien-Wei Fu , Meng-Lin Ku , Yu-Jia Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

Metaverse is expected to create a virtual world closely connected with reality to provide users with immersive experience with the support of 5G high data rate communication technique. A huge amount of data in physical world needs to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Peiyuan Si , Wenhan Yu , Jun Zhao , Kwok-Yan Lam , Qing Yang

The malfunction or interruption of wireless coverage services has been shown to increase the mortality rate during natural disasters. Wireless coverage by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) provides network coverage to ground user devices…

Driven by the demands of 5G/Beyond 5G and 6G networks, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have surfaced in critical roles for aerial communications. In the present survey, we explore the multi-mode roles of UAVs as relays, User Equipment (UE),…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Riddhi Apte , Shubhada Gadgil , Gaurav Kasbekar , Rushikesh Patil , Prasanna Chaporkar

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide an effective solution for improving the coverage, capacity, and the overall performance of terrestrial wireless cellular networks. In particular, UAV-assisted cellular networks can meet the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Aunas Manzoor , Kitae Kim , Shashi Raj Pandey , S. M. Ahsan Kazmi , Nguyen H. Tran , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

Over the air computation (AirComp) is a promising technique that addresses big data collection and fast wireless data aggregation. However, in a network where wireless communication and AirComp coexist, mutual interference becomes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Xunqiang Lan , Xiao Tang , Ruonan Zhang , Bin Li , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

We consider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless communication employing UAVs as relay nodes to increase the throughput between a pair of transmitter and receiver. We focus on developing effective methods to position the UAV(s)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ali Rahmati , Huaiyu Dai

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial for advancing railway communication by offering reliable connectivity, adaptive coverage, and mobile edge services . This survey examines UAV-assisted approaches for 6G railway needs including…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Aamer Mohamed Huroon , Li-Chun Wang

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous sensing applications, which are expected to add billions of dollars to the world economy in the next decade. To further improve the Quality-of-Service (QoS) in such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Fanyi Wu , Hongliang Zhang , Jianjun Wu , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes immensely impact the telecommunication network infrastructure, leading to the malfunctioning and interruption of wireless services. Consequently, the user devices under the disaster zone are…

In this paper, we consider a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with an information collection and transmission mission for multiple ground targets. Specifically, the UAV is required to collect a fixed amount of information of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Xianzhen Guo , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to localize victims, deliver first-aid, and maintain wireless connectivity to victims and first responders during search/rescue and public safety scenarios. In this letter, we consider the problem…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Bekir Sait Ciftler , Adem Tuncer , Ismail Guvenc

We consider UAV IoT aerial sensing that delivers multiple VR/AR immersive communication sessions to remote users. The UAV swarm is spatially distributed over a wide area of interest, and each UAV captures a viewpoint of the scene below it.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Jacob Chakareski

In this paper, an interference-aware path planning scheme for a network of cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proposed. In particular, each UAV aims at achieving a tradeoff between maximizing energy efficiency and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Ursula Challita , Walid Saad , Christian Bettstetter