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In recent years, LEO satellite constellations have become envisioned as a core component of the next-generation wireless communication networks. The successive establishment of mega satellite constellations has triggered further demands for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ruibo Wang , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we study to employ geographic information to address the blockage problem of air-to-ground links between UAV and terrestrial nodes. In particular, a UAV relay is deployed to establish communication links from a ground base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Pengfei Yi , Liang Zhu , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Zhu Han , Xiang-Gen Xia

A reliable communication network is essential for multiple UAVs operating within obstacle-cluttered environments, where limited communication due to obstructions often occurs. A common solution is to deploy intermediate UAVs to relay…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Yuda Chen , Meng Guo

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites can be used to assist maritime wireless communications for wide-area data transmission. However, the extensive coverage of LEO satellites, combined with the openness of channels, can cause the communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiawei Huang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Victor C. M. Leung

The caching paradigm has been introduced to alleviate backhaul traffic load and to reduce latencies due to massive never ending increase in data traffic. To fully exploit the benefits offered by caching, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Emre Gures , Pavel Mach

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained a lot of popularity in diverse wireless communication fields. They can act as high-altitude flying relays to support communications between ground nodes due to their ability to provide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Hakim Ghazzai , Mahdi Ben Ghorbel , Andreas Kassler , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Marine Internet of Things (IoT) systems have grown substantially with the development of non-terrestrial networks (NTN) via aerial and space vehicles in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G), thereby assisting environment protection, military…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Sooyeob Jung , Seongah Jeong , Jinkyu Kang , Joonhyuk Kang

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

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

With line-of-sight mode deployment and fast response, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), equipped with the cutting-edge integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technique, is poised to deliver high-quality communication and sensing services…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Bohan Li , Jiahao Liu , Junsheng Mu , Pei Xiao , Sheng Chen

We consider a scenario where an UAV-mounted flying base station is providing data communication services to a number of radio nodes spread over the ground. We focus on the problem of resource-constrained UAV trajectory design with (i)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Omid Esrafilian , Rajeev Gangula , David Gesbert

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted much attention due to its flexible deployment and controllable mobility. As the general communication network cannot meet the emergency requirements, in this paper we study the multi-UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yixin Zhang , Wenchi Cheng

The low-altitude networks (LANs) integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high-altitude platforms (HAPs) have become a promising solution for the rising computation demands. However, the uncertain task sizes and high mobility of UAVs…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guanwang Jiang , Ziye Jia , Can Cui , Lijun He , Qiuming Zhu , Qihui Wu

This paper investigates the joint optimization of trajectory, user scheduling, and time-slot duration in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless communication systems under minimum expected spectral efficiency (SE) constraints.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Gitae Park , Kisong Lee

The rapid advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) services and the evolution toward the sixth generation (6G) have positioned unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as critical enablers of low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs). This work…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Haijia Jin , Jun Wu , Weijie Yuan , Fan Liu , Yuanhao Cui

In this paper, the problem of content caching and transmission is studied for a wireless virtual reality (VR) network in which unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capture videos on live games or sceneries and transmit them to small base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Changchuan Yin

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted mobile edge computing systems have been exploited by researchers as a promising solution for providing computation services to mobile users outside of terrestrial infrastructure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Loc X. Nguyen , Yan Kyaw Tun , Tri Nguyen Dang , Yu Min Park , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled multicast channel, in which a UAV serves as a mobile transmitter to deliver common information to a set of $K$ ground users. We aim to characterize the capacity of this channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Yundi Wu , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

Multi-beam low earth orbit (LEO) satellites are emerging as key components in beyond 5G and 6G to provide global coverage and high data rate. To fully unleash the potential of LEO satellite communication, resource management plays a key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Shuo Yuan , Yaohua Sun , Mugen Peng , Renzhi Yuan

Modern satellites deployed in low Earth orbit (LEO) accommodate processing payloads that can be exploited for edge computing. Furthermore, by implementing inter-satellite links, the LEO satellites in a constellation can route the data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-23 Marc Martinez-Gost , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Ana Pérez-Neira , Miguel Ángel Vázquez , Beatriz Soret , Marco Moretti