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Mobile base stations on board unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promise to deliver connectivity to those areas where the terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. A fundamental problem in this context involves determining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Daniel Romero , Pham Q. Viet , Geert Leus

The deployment of Aerial Base Stations (ABSs) mounted on board Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is emerging as a promising technology to provide connectivity in areas where terrestrial infrastructure is insufficient or absent. This may occur…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Pham Q. Viet , Daniel Romero

The deployment of aerial base stations (ABSs) on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents a promising solution for extending cellular connectivity to areas where terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. A pivotal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Daniel Romero , Pham Q. Viet , Raju Shrestha

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be users that support new applications, or be communication access points that serve terrestrial and/or aerial users. In this paper, we focus on the connectivity problem of aerial users when they are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-24 Nesrine Cherif , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into wireless networks has opened a new horizon to meet the capacity and coverage requirements foreseen in future wireless networks. Harnessing UAVs as flying base stations (BSs) has helped…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Rabe Arshad , Lutz Lampe , Hesham ElSawy , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with on-board base station equipment can potentially provide connectivity in areas where the terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. Use cases comprise emergency response,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Daniel Romero , Geert Leus

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is being integrated as an active element in 5G and beyond networks. Because of its flexibility and mobility, UAV base stations (UAV-BSs) can be deployed according to the ground user distributions and their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Xukai Zhong , Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong , Zhonghua Liang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mounted base stations (UAV-BSs) can provide wireless services in a variety of scenarios. In this letter, we propose an optimal placement algorithm for UAV-BSs that maximizes the number of covered users using the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Mohamed Alzenad , Amr El-Keyi , Faraj Lagum , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Rapid advances in wireless communication technologies coupled with ongoing massive development in vehicular networking standards and innovations in computing, sensing, and analytics have paved the way for intelligent transportation systems…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Adnan Mahmood , Bernard Butler , Brendan Jennings

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations (BSs) are reliable and efficient alternative to full fill the coverage and capacity requirements when the backbone network fails to provide such requirements due to disasters. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Thushan Sivalingam , K. B. Shashika Manosha , Nandana Rajatheva , M. Latva-aho , Maheshi B. Dissanayake

One of the major challenges slowing down the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (ABSs) is the limited on-board power supply which reduces the UAV's flight time. Using a tether to provide UAVs with power can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Safa Khemiri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Despite the significant attention that aerial base stations (ABSs) have received recently, their practical implementation is severely weakened by their limited endurance due to the battery constraints of drones. To overcome this fundamental…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Wen Shang , Yuan Liao , Vasilis Friderikos , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Airborne Base Stations (ABSs) allow for flexible geographical allocation of network resources with dynamically changing load as well as rapid deployment of alternate connectivity solutions during natural disasters. Since the radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mauro Belgiovine , Chris Dick , Kaushik Chowdhury

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in the emerging low-altitude economy. However, they face significant challenges in achieving reliable network coverage during transit operations. This paper provides an in-depth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yajun Zhao , Mengnan Jian , Yifei Yuan

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems are poised to revolutionize next-generation wireless networks by enabling simultaneous sensing and communication (S\&C). This survey comprehensively…

In this paper, the efficient deployment and mobility of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), used as aerial base stations to collect data from ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is investigated. In particular, to enable reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle-aided communication (UAB-BS) is a promising solution to establish rapid wireless connectivity in sudden/temporary crowded events because of its more flexibility and mobility features than conventional ground base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chuan-Chi Lai , Bhola , Ang-Hsun Tsai , Li-Chun Wang

Intelligent Transportation Systems are thriving thanks to a wide range of technological advances, namely 5G communications, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and edge computing. Central to this is the wide deployment of smart…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Ahmed Al-Hilo , Moataz Samir , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based aerial base stations (BSs) can provide rapid communication services to ground users and are thus promising for future communication systems. In this paper, we consider a scenario where no functional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-09 Jingcong Sun , Christos Masouros
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