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In this paper, we investigate joint 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory planning and resource allocation for rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensing. To support emerging real-time SAR applications and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Walid R. Ghanem , Christina Bonfert , Robert Schober

In wireless networks, radio-map based locating techniques are commonly used to cope the complex fading feature of radio signal, in which a radio-map is built by calibrating received signal strength (RSS) signatures at training locations in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiongfeng Geng , Yongcai Wang , Haoran Feng , Zhoufeng Chen

Constructing a spatial map of environmental parameters is a crucial step to preventing hazardous chemical leakages, forest fires, or while estimating a spatially distributed physical quantities such as terrain elevation. Although prior…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Hyongju Park , Jinsun Liu , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Ram Vasudevan

A radio map captures the spatial distribution of wireless channel parameters, such as the strength of the signal received, across a geographic area. The problem of fine-grained three-dimensional (3D) radio map construction involves…

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Radio Environment Maps (REMs) have the potential to serve as an important enabler for intelligent modeling and control in emerging AI-native 6G networks. Despite significant progress, most REM construction methods remain passive, relying on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Jernej Hribar , Ljupcho Milosheski , Ryoichi Shinkuma

Next-generation wireless systems such as 6G operate at higher frequency bands, making signal propagation highly sensitive to environmental factors such as buildings and vege- tation. Accurate Radio Environment Map (REM) estimation is…

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Localization is one of the most important technologies needed to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in actual fields. Currently, most UAVs use GNSS to estimate their position. Recently, there have been attacks that target the weaknesses of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Junho Choi , Hyun Myung

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been considered for telecommunications purposes as relays, caches, or IoT data collectors. In addition to being easy to deploy, their maneuverability allows them to adjust their location…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Enes Krijestorac , Samer Hanna , Danijela Cabric

Radio maps provide metrics such as the received signal strength at every location in a geographical region of interest. Extensive research has been carried out in this context, but it relies almost exclusively on synthetic-data experiments.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Raju Shrestha , Tien Ngoc Ha , Pham Q. Viet , Daniel Romero

Micro-Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) have the advantage of moving freely in 3D space. However, creating compact and sparse map representations that can be efficiently used for planning for such robots is still an open problem. In this paper, we…

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Channel knowledge map (CKM) has recently emerged to facilitate the placement and trajectory optimization for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. This paper investigates a CKM-assisted multi-UAV wireless network, by focusing on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Haoyun Li , Peiming Li , Jie Xu , Junting Chen , Yong Zeng

Channel-gain maps provide the channel gain between any two locations in a geographical region. They find numerous applications, from resource allocation and interference control to path planning for autonomous vehicles. Channel-gain map…

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Radio map is an efficient demonstration for visually displaying the wireless signal coverage within a certain region. It has been considered to be increasingly helpful for the future sixth generation (6G) of wireless networks, as wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 Shuhang Zhang , Shuai Jiang , Wanjie Lin , Zheng Fang , Kangjun Liu , Hongliang Zhang , Ke Chen

This letter introduces a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) structure into near-field localization systems to enhance the design flexibility of IRS, thereby obtaining additional performance gains.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Hanfu Zhang , Yidan Mei , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang

This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless communication systems where a UAV supports uplink communications of multiple ground nodes (GNs) while flying over the area of the interest. In this system, the propulsion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Subin Eom , Hoon Lee , Junhee Park , Inkyu Lee

This paper proposes a high-accuracy radio map construction method tailored for environments where location information is affected by bursty errors. Radio maps are an effective tool for visualizing wireless environments. Although extensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Koki Kanzaki , Koya Sato

Radio map construction requires a large amount of radio measurement data with location labels, which imposes a high deployment cost. This paper develops a region-based radio map from received signal strength (RSS) measurements without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Zheng Xing , Junting Chen

Low-altitude economy includes the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving ground robots. This paper investigates the 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory and communication optimization for low-altitude air-ground cooperation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Menghao Hu , Tong Zhang , Shuai Wang , Chiya Zhang , Changyang She , Gaojie Chen , Miaowen Wen

This letter studies an unmanned aerial vehicle-enabled wireless power transfer system within a radio-map-based robust positioning design.

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