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Advances in the Internet of Things are revolutionizing data acquisition, enhancing artificial intelligence and quality of service. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an efficient data-gathering solution across varied environments. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Priyavrat Dev Sharma , Ibrahim Sorkhoh , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

In this paper, we analyze the downlink coverage probability and rate of an aerial user in vertical HetNets (VHetNets) comprising aerial base stations (aerial-BSs) and terrestrial-BSs. The locations of terrestrial-BSs are modeled as an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Nesrine Cherif , Mohamed Alzenad , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

Wireless access points on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being considered for mobile service provisioning in commercial networks. To be able to efficiently use these devices in cellular networks it is necessary to first have a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Boris Galkin , Jacek Kibiłda , Luiz A. DaSilva

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) provides a promising way to support ultrafast aggregation of distributed data. However, its performance cannot be guaranteed in long-distance transmission due to the distortion induced by the channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Ting Wang , Wei Chen

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) hold great potential to support a wide range of applications due to the high maneuverability and flexibility. Compared with single UAV, UAV swarm carries out tasks efficiently in harsh environment, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Zhiqing Wei , Ziyu Wang , Zeyang Meng , Ning Zhang , Huici Wu , Zhiyong Feng

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex networked environments, yet the joint optimization of multi-UAV motion control and connectivity remains a fundamental challenge. In this paper, we study a multi-UAV system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zijiang Yan , Hao Zhou , Wael Jaafar , Jianhua Pei , Ping Wang , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Hina Tabassum

In this paper, the optimal deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as flying base stations is investigated. Considering the downlink scenario, the goal is to minimize the total required transmit power of UAVs while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

The integrated use of non-terrestrial network (NTN) entities such as the high-altitude platform station (HAPS) and low-altitude platform station (LAPS) has become essential elements in the space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Atefeh H. Arani , Peng Hu , Yeying Zhu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-assisted mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has emerged as a promising paradigm for data collection. However, challenges such as spectrum scarcity, device heterogeneity, and user mobility hinder efficient coordination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xianyang Deng , Wenshuai Liu , Yaru FuB , Qi Zhu

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

In this paper, an analytical framework is provided to analyze the energy coverage performance of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) energy harvesting networks with clustered user equipments (UEs). Locations of UEs are modeled as a Poisson…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Esma Turgut , M. Cenk Gursoy , Ismail Guvenc

This paper studies the path design problem for cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which aims to minimize its mission completion time while maintaining good connectivity with the cellular network. We first argue that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu

In this paper, a comprehensive study of the the downlink performance in a heterogeneous cellular network (or hetnet) is conducted. A general hetnet model is considered consisting of an arbitrary number of open-access and closed-access tier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Prasanna Madhusudhanan , Juan G. Restrepo , Youjian , Liu , Timothy X Brown

Low-altitude wireless networks are increasingly vital for the low-altitude economy, enabling wireless coverage in high-mobility and hard-to-reach environments. However, providing reliable connectivity to sparsely distributed aerial users in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tian Shi , Wenkun Wen , Peiran Wu , Minghua Xia

The growing complexity of heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) has necessitated the need to consider variety of user and base station (BS) configurations for realistic performance evaluation and system design. This is directly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Chiranjib Saha , Mehrnaz Afshang , Harpreet S. Dhillon

In this paper we study the deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to form a temporal UAV network for the provisioning of emergent communications to affected people in a disaster zone, where each UAV is equipped with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wenzheng Xu , Yueying Sun , Rui Zou , Weifa Liang , Qiufen Xia , Feng Shan , Tian Wang , Xiaohua Jia , Zheng Li

This letter proposes an analytical framework to evaluate the coverage performance of a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network in which UAV user equipments (UAV-UEs) are equipped with directional antennas and move according…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Hongguang Sun , Chao Ma , Linyi Zhang , Jiahui Li , Xijun Wang , Shuqin Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

This work proposes an empirical air to ground (A2G) propagation model specifically designed for cellular connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). An in depth aerial drive test was carried out within an operating Long Term Evolution (LTE)…

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized as effective platforms for carrying Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs), enabling low-cost, agile, and flexible wireless networks with high Quality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kamal Shayegan

This letter studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided multicasting (MC) system, which is enabled by simultaneous free space optics (FSO) backhaul and power transfer. The UAV applies the power-splitting technique to harvest wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Yue Ling Che , Weibin Long , Sheng Luo , Kaishun Wu , Rui Zhang