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Next-generation networks need to meet ubiquitous and high data-rate demand. Therefore, this paper considers the throughput and trajectory optimization of terahertz (THz)-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the sixth-generation (6G)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Sheikh Salman Hassan , Yu Min Park , Yan Kyaw Tun , Walid Saad , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into next-generation wireless networks is a promising solution for providing flexible, efficient coverage. This paper explores the optimal deployment of a single UAV to cover an arbitrary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Alexander Vavoulas , Nicholas Vaiopoulos , Konstantinos K. Delibasis , Harilaos G. Sandalidis

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a convenient choice for carrying mobile base stations to rapidly setup communication services for ground users. Unlike terrestrial networks, UAVs do not have fiber optic back-haul connectivity except when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Yuhui Wang , Junaid Farooq

The growing use of aerial user equipments (UEs) in various applications requires ubiquitous and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these devices and ground stations. Key questions that need to be addressed when…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Fernando Rosas , Sofie Pollin

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided backscatter communication (BackCom) networks, where the UAV is leveraged to help the backscatter device (BD) forward signals to the receiver. Based on the presence or absence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Chunguo Li , Qingqing Wu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs coordinated by a base station (BS) to help the ground users (GUs) to offload their sensing data. Different UAVs can adapt their trajectories and network formation to expedite data transmissions via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shimin Gong , Meng Wang , Bo Gu , Wenjie Zhang , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

This work considers covert communications in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, aiming to hide a UAV for transmitting critical information out of a scenario that is monitored and where communication is not allowed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Jiande Sun , Jun Li , Feng Shu

This letter investigates an uplink power control problem for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted wireless communications. We jointly optimize the UAV's flying altitude, antenna beamwidth, UAV's location and ground terminals' allocated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Zhaohui Yang , Cunhua Pan , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , Wei Xu , Ming Chen , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipments such as drones or flying taxis is a major challenge for tomorrow cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point transmission for providing seamless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Nicola Marchetti

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively utilized to provide wireless connectivity in rural and under-developed areas, enhance network capacity and provide support for peaks or unexpected surges in user demand, mainly due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Anousheh Gholami , Nariman Torkzaban , John S. Baras , Chrysa Papagianni

Cooperative communication using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a promising technology for infrastructureless wireless networks. One of the key challenges in UAV based communications is the backhaul throughput. In this paper, we propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-07 Samer Hanna , Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

A novel framework is proposed for the trajectory design of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on the prediction of users' mobility information. The problem of joint trajectory design and power control is formulated for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Lajos Hanzo

Cognitive radio is a promising technology to improve spectral efficiency. However, the secure performance of a secondary network achieved by using physical layer security techniques is limited by its transmit power and channel fading. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yifan Zhou , Fuhui Zhou , Huilin Zhou , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Rose Qingyang Hu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for wireless communications has rapidly grown into a research hotspot as the mass production of high-performance, low-cost, intelligent UAVs become more practical and feasible. In the meantime, fifth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Wei Xu , Marvin Yuen

Recent years have witnessed increasingly more uses of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms for rapidly providing wireless coverage to ground users. Each UAV is constrained in its energy storage and wireless coverage, and it consumes most…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan

Optimal deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as communication relays is studied for fixed-rate variable-power systems. The considered setup is a set of ground transmitters (GTs) wishing to communicate with a set of ground receivers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Erdem Koyuncu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communications is a promising solution to improve the performance of future wireless networks, where UAVs are deployed as base stations for enhancing the quality of service (QoS) provided to ground…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Xukai Zhong , Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong , Zhonghua Liang

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure communication scenario that a cluster of UAVs performs a virtual non-uniform linear array (NULA) to communicate with a base station (BS) in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Bin Qiu , Wenchi Cheng , Hongxiang He , Wei Zhang

Laser power has become a viable solution to provide convenient and sustainable energy supply to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, we study a laser-powered UAV wireless communication system, where a laser transmitter sends…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Jie Ouyang , Yueling Che , Jie Xu , Kaishun Wu

Post-disaster situations pose unique navigation challenges. One of those challenges is the unstructured nature of the environment, which makes it hard to layout paths for rescue vehicles. We propose the use of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Raghav Adhikari , Sachet Khatiwada , Suman Poudel