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Over the past few years, the use of swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in monitoring and remote area surveillance applications has become widespread thanks to the price reduction and the increased capabilities of drones. The drones…

Beam management, including initial access (IA) and beam tracking, is essential to the millimeter-wave Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network. However, conventional communication-only and feedback-based schemes suffer a high delay and low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Yanpeng Cui , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Qin Wen , Ying Zhou , Zhiqing Wei , Ping Zhang

We investigate the applicability of deep reinforcement learning algorithms to the adaptive initial access beam alignment problem for mmWave communications using the state-of-the-art proximal policy optimization algorithm as an example. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Daniel Tandler , Sebastian Dörner , Marc Gauger , Stephan ten Brink

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

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 consider a scenario with one UAV equipped with a ULA, which sends combined information and sensing signals to communicate with multiple GBS and, at the same time, senses potential targets placed within an interested area…

Environmental sensing can significantly enhance mmWave communications by assisting beam training, yet its benefits must be balanced against the associated sensing costs. To this end, we propose a unified machine learning framework that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Abolfazl Zakeri , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Markku Juntti

To provide a reliable wireless uplink for users in a given ground area, one can deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs). In another application, one can use UAVs to collect data from sensors on the ground. For a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jun Guo , Philipp Walk , Hamid Jafarkhani

The fifth generation of wireless communications (5G) promises massive increases in traffic volume and data rates, as well as improved reliability in voice calls. Jointly optimizing beamforming, power control, and interference coordination…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Faris B. Mismar , Brian L. Evans , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In this paper, we develop algorithms for joint user scheduling and three types of mmWave link configuration: relay selection, codebook optimization, and beam tracking in millimeter wave (mmWave) networks. Our goal is to design an online…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yi Zhang , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we investigate the problem of beam alignment in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, and design an optimal algorithm to reduce the overhead. Specifically, due to directional communications, the transmitter and receiver beams…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Morteza Hashemi , Ashutosh Sabharwal , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

Decentralized learning empowers wireless network devices to collaboratively train a machine learning (ML) model relying solely on device-to-device (D2D) communication. It is known that the convergence speed of decentralized optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Matteo Zecchin , David Gesbert , Marios Kountouris

In this paper, a novel Three dimensional (3D) positioning framework of fluid antenna system (FAS)-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is developed. In the proposed framework, a set of controlled UAVs cooperatively estimate the real-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xiaoren Xu , Hao Xu , Dongyu Wei , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Mingzhe Chen

Fast and reliable connectivity is essential to enhancing situational awareness and operational efficiency for public safety mission-critical (MC) users. In emergency or disaster circumstances, where existing cellular network coverage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hongyi Zhang , Jingya Li , Zhiqiang Qi , Xingqin Lin , Anders Aronsson , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

Unmanned aerial base stations (UABSs) can be deployed in vehicular wireless networks to support applications such as extended sensing via vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services. A key problem in such systems is designing algorithms that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Riccardo Marini , Sangwoo Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Chiara Buratti

Predictive millimeter-wave (mmWave) beamforming is a promising technique to enable low-latency and high-rate ground-air communications for cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, the high vulnerability of mmWave to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Shiqi Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng

Benefiting from huge bandwidth resources, millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide one of the most promising technologies for next-generation wireless networks. To compensate for the high pathloss of mmWave signals, large-scale…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ke Ma , Zhaocheng Wang , Wenqiang Tian , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo

In this chapter, the regulation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communication network is investigated in the presence of dynamic changes in the UAV lineup and user distribution. We target an optimal UAV control policy which is capable of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Ran Zhang , Duc Minh , Nguyen , Miao Wang , Lin X. Cai , Xuemin , Shen

Position-aided beam selection methods have been shown to be an effective approach to achieve high beamforming gain while limiting the overhead and latency of initial access in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Most research in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Sajad Rezaie , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Carles Navarro Manchón

In this work, we consider the problem of network parameter optimization for rate maximization. We frame this as a joint optimization problem of power control, beam forming, and interference cancellation. We consider the setting where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Heasung Kim , Sravan Kumar Ankireddy