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In this paper, an interference-aware path planning scheme for a network of cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proposed. In particular, each UAV aims at achieving a tradeoff between maximizing energy efficiency and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Ursula Challita , Walid Saad , Christian Bettstetter

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

We present a novel and first-of-its-kind information-theoretic framework for the key design consideration and implementation of a ground-to-UAV (G2U) communication network to minimize end-to-end transmission delay in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Sudhanshu Arya , Ying Wang

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has gained interest in wireless networks for its many uses and advantages such as rapid deployment and multi-purpose functionality. This is why wide deployment of UAVs has the potential to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-26 Mohamed Y. Selim , Ahmad Alsharoa , Ahmed E. Kamal

Fifth Generation (5G) cellular networks are expected to provide cellular connectivity for vehicular users, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). When flying in the air, these users experience strong, unobstructed channel conditions to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Boris Galkin , Ramy Amer , Erika Fonseca , Luiz A. DaSilva

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is expected to revolutionize the existing integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system and promise a more flexible joint design. Nevertheless, the existing works on ISAC mainly focus on exploring the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Shaodan Ma , Wen Chen , Kunlun Wang , Jun Li

In this paper we consider a collection of single-antenna ground nodes communicating with a multi-antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over a multiple-access ground-to-air wireless communications link. The UAV uses beamforming to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Feng Jiang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper presents a simulation based study of Artificial Intelligence assisted communication channel adaptation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle enabled cellular networks. The considered system model includes communication channel Ground Base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Andrii Grekhov , Volodymyr Kharchenko , Vasyl Kondratiuk

We consider a cellular network deployment where UAV-to-UAV (U2U) transmit-receive pairs share the same spectrum with the uplink (UL) of cellular ground users (GUEs). For this setup, we focus on analyzing and comparing the performance of two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 M. Mahdi Azari , Giovanni Geraci , Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez , Sofie Pollin

Over the air computation (AirComp) is a promising technique that addresses big data collection and fast wireless data aggregation. However, in a network where wireless communication and AirComp coexist, mutual interference becomes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Xunqiang Lan , Xiao Tang , Ruonan Zhang , Bin Li , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Supporting reliable and seamless mobility for aerial users, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), is a key challenge for the next-generation cellular systems. To tackle this challenge, we propose a joint beamforming, user association,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jiancao Hou , Yansha Deng , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated into cellular networks face significant challenges from air-to-ground interference. To address this, we propose a downlink UAV communication system that leverages a fluid antenna system (FAS)-…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Ali Reda , Tamer Mekkawy , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kai-Kit Wong

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer dynamic trajectory control, enabling them to avoid obstacles and establish line-of-sight (LoS) wireless channels with ground nodes (GNs), unlike traditional ground-fixed base stations. This study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Gitae Park , Kanghyun Heo , Kisong Lee

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications are expected to alleviate the load of ground base stations in a cost-effective way. Existing studies mainly focus on the deployment and resource…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Zhaolong Ning , Hao Hu , Xiaojie Wang , Qingqing Wu , Chau Yuen , F. Richard Yu , Yan Zhang

The past few years have witnessed a tremendous increase on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civilian applications, which call for high-performance communication between UAVs and their ground clients, especially when they are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

A novel near-field integrated sensing and communications framework for secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks with high time efficiency is proposed. A ground base station (GBS) with large aperture size communicates with one…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Jingjing Zhao , Songtao Xue , Kaiquan Cai , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Yanbo Zhu

This paper investigates full-duplex unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided small cell wireless systems, where the UAV serving as the base station (BS) is designed to transmit data to the downlink users and receive data from the uplink users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Cunhua Pan , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled two-user interference channel for wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs), in which two UAVs wirelessly charge two low-power Internet-of-things (IoT)-devices on the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Lifeng Xie , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important new class of users in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G cellular networks. In particular, there are emerging UAV applications such as aerial photograph and data relaying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

This paper exploits the networked integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) to support low-altitude economy (LAE), in which a set of networked ground base stations (GBSs) cooperatively transmit joint information and sensing signals to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Gaoyuan Cheng , Xianxin Song , Zhonghao Lyu , Jie Xu