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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a key enabler technology for data collection from Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, effective data collection is challenged by resource constraints and the need for real-time…

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This paper proposes a solution for energy-efficient communication in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. The limited battery life of UAVs is a major concern for their sustainable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi , Mohammed S Al-Abiad , Shahrokh Valaee

Internet of Things (IoT) involves sensors for monitoring and wireless networks for efficient communication. However, resource-constrained IoT devices and limitations in existing wireless technologies hinder its full potential. Integrating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Poorvi Joshi , Alakesh Kalita , Mohan Gurusamy

This paper explores an emerging wireless Internet-of-things (IoT) architecture based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We consider a network where a fleet of UAVs at a fixed altitude flies on planned trajectories and IoT devices on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Chang-sik Choi , Francois Baccelli , Gustavo de Veciana

Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted the attention of researchers in academia and industry for providing wireless services to ground users in diverse scenarios like festivals, large sporting events, natural and man-made…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Marwan Dhuheir , Aiman Erbad , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Mohsen Guizani

In this paper, a novel joint energy and age of information (AoI) optimization framework for IoT devices in a non-stationary environment is presented. In particular, IoT devices that are distributed in the real-world are required to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zhenzhen Gong , Omar Hashash , Yingze Wang , Qimei Cui , Wei Ni , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi

The usage of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in conjunction with Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) is being investigated as a way to provide energy-efficient communication to ground users in dense urban areas. In this paper, we…

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

This paper explores the integration of power splitting(PS) simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) architecture and federated learning (FL) in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The use of SWIPT allows power-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Hossein Mohammadi Firouzjaei , Javad Zeraatkar Moghaddam , Mehrdad Ardebilipour

In this paper, we propose reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) networks that can utilise both advantages of UAV's agility and RIS's reflection for enhancing the network's performance. To aim at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Saeed Khosravirad , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Long D. Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to greatly aid Internet of Things (IoT) networks in mission-critical data collection, thanks to their flexibility and cost-effectiveness. However, challenges arise due to the UAV's limited…

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Advances in the Internet of Things are revolutionizing data acquisition, enhancing artificial intelligence and quality of service. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an efficient data-gathering solution across varied environments. This…

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The effective integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future wireless communication systems depends on the conscious use of their limited energy, which constrains their flight time. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Dimitrios Tyrovolas , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper investigates a master unmanned aerial vehicle (MUAV)-powered Internet of Things (IoT) network, in which we propose using a rechargeable auxiliary UAV (AUAV) equipped with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Jingren Xu , Xin Kang , Ronghaixiang Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang , Sumei Sun

We consider UAV IoT aerial sensing that delivers multiple VR/AR immersive communication sessions to remote users. The UAV swarm is spatially distributed over a wide area of interest, and each UAV captures a viewpoint of the scene below it.…

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Harvesting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices with multiple autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging problem requiring flexible path planning methods. We propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

In this paper, we propose a novel energy-efficient data collection and wireless power transfer (WPT) framework for internet of things (IoT) applications, via a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) unmanned aerial vehicle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Jiancao Hou , Zhaohui Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be a key component of the next-generation wireless systems. Due to their deployment flexibility, UAVs are being considered as an efficient solution for collecting information data from ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Aidin Ferdowsi , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Walid Saad