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This paper presents an algorithm for solving the problem of tracking smooth curves by a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle travelling with a constant airspeed and under a constant wind disturbance. The algorithm is based on the idea of…
Artificial intelligence advances have recently influenced wireless communications, including beam management in fifth-generation (5G) new radio systems. AI-driven models and algorithms are being applied to enhance tasks such as beam…
This paper studies a beam tracking problem in which an access point (AP), in collaboration with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), dynamically adjusts its downlink beamformers and the reflection pattern at the RIS in order to…
Beamforming techniques are considered as essential parts to compensate severe path losses in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. In particular, these techniques adopt large antenna arrays and formulate narrow beams to obtain…
Millimeter wave (mmWave) is an attractive candidate for high-speed mobile communications in the future. However, due to the propagation characteristics of mmWave, beam and and and and alignment becomes a key challenge for serving users with…
Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have drawn increasing attention in wireless communications recently due to their ability to create favorable channel conditions via local antenna movement within a confined region. In this…
Enabling highly-mobile millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) wireless communication applications requires overcoming the critical challenges associated with the large antenna arrays deployed at these systems. In particular, adjusting…
The interplay between large antenna apertures and high carrier frequencies in future wireless systems gives rise to near-field communications, where the curvature of spherical wavefronts renders traditional far-field beamforming models…
In the beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and upcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication systems, millimeter (mmWave) wave technology is a promising solution for offering additional bandwidth resources and mitigating spectrum…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as the potential aerial base stations (BSs) to improve terrestrial communications. However, the limited onboard energy and antenna power of a UAV restrict its communication range and transmission…
To support high data rate urgent or ad hoc communications, we consider mmWave UAV cellular networks and the associated challenges and solutions. To enable fast beamforming training and tracking, we first investigate a hierarchical structure…
Optical identification is often done with spatial or temporal visual pattern recognition and localization. Temporal pattern recognition, depending on the technology, involves a trade-off between communication frequency, range and accurate…
Next generation communication systems require accurate beam alignment to counteract the impairments that characterize propagation in high-frequency bands. The overhead of the pilot sequences required to select the best beam pair is…
Location-aided beam alignment has been proposed recently as a potential approach for fast link establishment in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO (mMIMO) communications. However, due to mobility and other imperfections in the estimation…
Recent developments in robotics and communication technologies are paving the way towards the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to provide ubiquitous connectivity in public safety scenarios or in remote areas. The millimeter wave…
This paper presents a novel wireless sensing system where a movable antenna (MA) continuously moves and receives sensing signals within a three-dimensional (3-D) region to enhance sensing performance compared with conventional…
Intensified underwater activities have driven the escalating demand for reliable, flexible, and high data-rate underwater communication links. Optical wireless communication (OWC) emerges as the most promising technology for short- to…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as flying base stations (BSs) to leverage the strength of line-of-sight connections and effectively support the coverage and throughput of wireless communication. This paper considers a…
This paper introduces the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as lightweight wireless access points that leverage the fixed infrastructure in the context of the emerging open radio access network (O-RAN). More precisely, we…
In this paper, we investigate beamforming design and trajectory optimization for a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. The proposed system employs multiple UAVs equipped with…