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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have steadily gained attention to overcome the harsh propagation loss and blockage issue of millimeter-wave communication. However, UAV communication systems suffer from energy consumption, which limits the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Hyesang Cho , Junil Choi

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided backscatter communication (BackCom) networks, where the UAV is leveraged to help the backscatter device (BD) forward signals to the receiver. Based on the presence or absence of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Chunguo Li , Qingqing Wu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This work considers covert communications in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, aiming to hide a UAV for transmitting critical information out of a scenario that is monitored and where communication is not allowed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Jiande Sun , Jun Li , Feng Shu

Thanks to the line-of-sight (LoS) transmission and flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) effectively improve the throughput of wireless networks. Nevertheless, the LoS links are prone to severe deterioration by complex propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sixian Li , Bin Duo , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Marco Di Renzo

We address the challenge of designing cellular networks for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) corridors through a novel data-driven approach. We assess multiple state-of-the-art high-dimensional Bayesian optimization (HD-BO) techniques to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Mohamed Benzaghta , Giovanni Geraci , David López-Pérez , Alvaro Valcarce

In this paper, we consider unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted cellular communication system, where UAVs can be used as amplify-and-forward (AF) relays. The effective channel with UAV assisted communication can be modeled as a Rayleigh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Sha Hu , Jose Flordelis , Fredrik Rusek , Ove Edfors

This paper investigates a multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system equipped with movable antenna (MA) arrays. To align with practical scenarios, we simulate the dynamic roaming of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Bin Li , Pengcheng Rao , Xuedong Zhang , Xinyi Wang

This letter aims to present a novel approach for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)' path planning with respect to certain quality of service requirements. More specifically, we study the max-min fairness problem in an air-to-ground…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Amine Bejaoui , Ki-Hong Park , Mohamed Slim Alouini

Providing reliable connectivity to cellular-connected UAV can be very challenging; their performance highly depends on the nature of the surrounding environment, such as density and heights of the ground BSs. On the other hand, tall…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Erika Fonseca , Boris Galkin , Ramy Amer , Luiz A. DaSilva , Ivana Dusparic

We consider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless communication employing UAVs as relay nodes to increase the throughput between a pair of transmitter and receiver. We focus on developing effective methods to position the UAV(s)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ali Rahmati , Huaiyu Dai

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play an increasingly important role in future wireless networks. To facilitate the reliable navigation for cellular-connected UAVs, channel knowledge map (CKM) is considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuxuan Song , Haiquan Lu , Chiya Zhang , Beixiong Zheng , Yong Zeng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have a great potential for improving the performance of wireless communication systems due to their wide coverage and high mobility. In this paper, we study a UAV-enabled data collection system, where a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Dingcheng Yang , Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this letter, we propose an airborne maneuverable bi-static integrated sensing and communication system where both the transmitter and receiver are unmanned aerial vehicles. By timely forming a dynamic bi-static range based on the motion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Mingliang Wei , Ruoguang Li , Li Wang , Lianming Xu , Zhu Han

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into wireless communication systems has emerged as a transformative approach, promising cost-efficient connectivity. This paper addresses the optimization of the dynamic time-splitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Trinh Van Chien , Nguyen Minh Quan , Oh-Soon Shin , Van-Dinh Nguyen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider downlink scenarios from an aerial base station to ground users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

In this paper, the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system is studied, where the UAV is deployed to serve the user equipment (UE) with the assistance of multiple IRSs mounted on several…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Liang Wang , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Nauman Aslam

This paper studies the path design problem for cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which aims to minimize its mission completion time while maintaining good connectivity with the cellular network. We first argue that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been successfully adopted to enhance the flexibility and robustness of wireless communication networks. And recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has been paid increasing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Mohsen Eskandari , Hailong Huang , Andrey V. Savkin , Wei Ni

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proliferating as they are effective, flexible and cost-efficient devices for a variety of applications ranging from natural disaster recovery to delivery of goods. We investigate a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-30 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Fast and reliable wireless communication has become a critical demand in human life. In the case of mission-critical (MC) scenarios, for instance, when natural disasters strike, providing ubiquitous connectivity becomes challenging by using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongyi Zhang , Zhiqiang Qi , Jingya Li , Anders Aronsson , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson