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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now beginning to be deployed for enhancing the network performance and coverage in wireless communication. However, due to the limitation of their on-board power and flight time, it is challenging to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Tan Do-Duy , Holger Claussen , and Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we investigate a multi-user downlink multiple-input single-output (MISO) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system, where a multi-antenna UAV is employed to serve multiple ground terminals. Unlike existing approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yang Wang , Zhen Gao

UAVs are increasingly becoming vital tools in various wireless communication applications including internet of things (IoT) and sensor networks, thanks to their rapid and agile non-terrestrial mobility. Despite recent research, planning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Pei-Fa Sun , Yujae Song , Kang-Yu Gao , Yu-Kai Wang , Changjun Zhou , Sang-Woon Jeon , Jun Zhang

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

Due to the advantages of flexible deployment and extensive coverage, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have great potential for sensing applications in the next generation of cellular networks, which will give rise to a cellular Internet of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection has been emerging as a prominent application due to its flexibility, mobility, and low operational cost. However, under the dynamic and uncertainty of IoT data collection and energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nam H. Chu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Van Huynh , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based networks and Internet of Things (IoT) are being considered as integral components of current and next-generation wireless networks. In particular, UAVs can provide IoT devices with seamless connectivity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

Employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted growing interests and emerged as the state-of-the-art technology for data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this paper, with the objective of minimizing the total…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Jerome Henry

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as key enablers for low-altitude wireless network (LAWN), particularly when terrestrial networks are unavailable. In such scenarios, the environmental topology is typically unknown; hence,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Jihao Luo , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Le Zhao , Yuanhao Cui , Guangxu Zhu , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectory in multi-UAV non-cooperative scenarios while collecting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Due to the flexibility and low operational cost, dispatching unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect information from distributed sensors is expected to be a promising solution in Internet of Things (IoT), especially for time-critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Mengjie Yi , Xijun Wang , Juan Liu , Yan Zhang , Bo Bai

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant traction across various fields, path planning in 3D environments remains a critical challenge, particularly under size, weight, and power (SWAP) constraints. Traditional modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yufei Jiang , Yuanzhu Zhan , Harsh Vardhan Gupta , Chinmay Borde , Junyi Geng

In this paper, we design a navigation policy for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) where mobile base stations (BSs) are deployed to improve the data freshness and connectivity to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. First, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Sarder Fakhrul Abedin , Md. Shirajum Munir , Nguyen H. Tran , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Recently, the integration of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and visible light communication (VLC) technologies has emerged as a promising solution to offer flexible communication and efficient lighting. This letter investigates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Tian-Tian Lin , Yi Liu , Xiao-Wei Tang , Yunmei Shi , Yi Huang , Zhongxiang Wei , Qingqing Wu , Yuhan Dong

The low-altitude Internet of Things (IoT), supported by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), provides ground sensing networks with advanced real-time monitoring and data collection. To maximize data collection volume from distributed IoT nodes,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhenjia Xu , Xiaoling Zhang , Nan Qi , Guangxu Zhu , Xiaojie Li , Luliang Jia

Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted increasing attention. By taking into account age-of-information (AoI), we investigate the trajectory planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Zhen Gao

This paper investigates a multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) joint base station-assisted Internet of Vehicles (IoV) task offloading system in dense urban environments. To minimize system delay and energy consumption under strict coupling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Maoxin Ji , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Cui Zhang , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

The deployment flexibility and maneuverability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) increased their adoption in various applications, such as wildfire tracking, border monitoring, etc. In many critical applications, UAVs capture images and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Marwan Dhuheir , Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Sinan Sabeeh Al-Obaidi , Mounir Hamdi

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
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