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Radio maps characterize quantities of interest in radio communication environments, such as the received signal strength and channel attenuation, at every point of a geographical region. Radio map estimation typically entails interpolative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Daniel Romero , Seung-Jun Kim

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Hossein Mohammadi , Vuk Marojevic , Bodong Shang

The employment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the lowaltitude economy necessitates precise and real-time radio maps for reliable communication and safe navigation. However, constructing such maps is hindered by the infeasibility of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Hao Sun , Shicong Liu , Xianghao Yu , Ying Sun

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

Radio Environment Maps (REMs) are crucial for numerous applications in Telecom. The construction of accurate Radio Environment Maps (REMs) has become an important and challenging topic in recent decades. In this paper, we present a method…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ali Shibli , Tahar Zanouda

The expansion of the low-altitude economy is contingent on reliable cellular connectivity for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A key challenge in pre-flight planning is predicting communication link quality along proposed and pre-defined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Wenlihan Lu , Huacong Chen , Ruiyang Duan , Weijie Yuan , Shijian Gao

Spectrum sensing and the generation of 3D Radio Environment Maps (REMs) are essential for enabling spectrum sharing within cognitive radio networks. While Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer high-mobility 3D sensing, REM accuracy is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Mushfiqur Rahman , Sung Joon Maeng , Ismail Guvenc , Chau-Wai Wong , Mihail Sichitiu , Jason A. Abrahamson , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Radio maps are essential for efficient radio resource management in future 6G and low-altitude networks. While deep learning (DL) techniques have emerged as an efficient alternative to conventional ray-tracing for radio map estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Junshen Chen , Angzi Xu , Zezhong Zhang , Shiyao Zhang , Junting Chen , Shuguang Cui

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly useful for tasks which require the acquisition of data over large areas. The coverage problem, i.e., the problem of periodically visiting all subregions of an area at a desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Floriana Benedetti , Alessio Capitanelli , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Gianni Vercelli

The deployment of aerial base stations (ABSs) on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents a promising solution for extending cellular connectivity to areas where terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. A pivotal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Daniel Romero , Pham Q. Viet , Raju Shrestha

Radio maps (RMs) serve as a critical foundation for enabling environment-aware wireless communication, as they provide the spatial distribution of wireless channel characteristics. Despite recent progress in RM construction using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiucheng Wang , Qiming Zhang , Nan Cheng , Junting Chen , Zezhong Zhang , Zan Li , Shuguang Cui , Xuemin Shen

Several studies have explored deep learning algorithms to predict large-scale signal fading, or path loss, in urban communication networks. The goal is to replace costly measurement campaigns, inaccurate statistical models, or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Fabian Jaensch , Giuseppe Caire , Begüm Demir

This paper investigates a new scenario of spectrum sharing between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and terrestrial wireless communication, in which a cognitive/secondary UAV transmitter communicates with a ground secondary receiver (SR), in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yuwei Huang , Weidong Mei , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

Passive geolocation by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) covers a wide range of military and civilian applications including rescue, wild life tracking and electronic warfare. The sensor-target geometry is known to significantly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Xin Cheng , Feng Shu , Yifan Li , Zhihong Zhuang , Di Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

The basic idea of RSS-based indoor positioning is to estimate the receiver location by matching the measured received signal strength indicator (RSSI) with preestablished RSSI collections with corresponding locations, known as the radio…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Taewon Kang , Joon Hyo Rhee

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology to unlock the full potential of UAVs in the future. However, how to achieve ubiquitous three-dimensional (3D) communication coverage for the UAVs in the sky is a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

With the emergence of wireless applications in three-dimensional environments, such as the low-altitude airspace and 3D heterogeneous networks, radio map estimation is increasingly required to characterize signal propagation across both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zheng Fang , Junjie Liu , Kangjun Liu , Jianguo Zhang , Yaowei Wang , Ke Chen

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated communication and localization network in emergency scenarios where a single UAV is deployed as both an airborne base station (BS) and anchor node to assist…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Suzhi Bi , Jiaxing Yu , Zheyuan Yang , Xiaohui Lin , Yuan Wu

Radio map describes network coverage and is a practically important tool for network planning in modern wireless systems. Generally, radio strength measurements are collected to construct fine-resolution radio maps for analysis. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Songyang Zhang , Tianhang Yu , Jonathan Tivald , Brian Choi , Feng Ouyang , Zhi Ding

One major bottleneck in the practical implementation of received signal strength (RSS) based indoor localization systems is the extensive deployment efforts required to construct the radio maps through fingerprinting. In this paper, we aim…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Sameh Sorour , Yves Lostanlen , Shahrokh Valaee