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Due to an increasing number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with generally limited battery power, energy efficient data transmission schemes with massive connectivity capabilities are required for future wireless networks. Non-orthogonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Irfan Azam , Muhammad Basit Shahab , Soo Young Shin

This paper investigates a new scenario of spectrum sharing between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and terrestrial wireless communication, in which a cognitive/secondary UAV transmitter communicates with a ground secondary receiver (SR), in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yuwei Huang , Weidong Mei , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

Owing to the controlling flexibility and cost-effectiveness, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to serve as flying base stations (BSs) in the air-ground integrated network. By exploiting the mobility of UAVs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Xuezhen Yan , Xuming Fang , Cailian Deng , Xianbin Wang

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianjiao Sun , Ningyan Guo , Haozhe Gu , Yanyan Peng , Zhiyong Feng

For multiple Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles (UAVs) assisted Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) networks, we study the problem of combined computation and communication for user equipments deployed with multi-type tasks. Specifically, we consider that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Bin Li , Rongrong Yang , Lei Liu , Junyi Wang , Ning Zhang , Mianxiong Dong

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) have been recently applied in the field of mobile edge computing (MEC) to improve the data exchange environment by proactively changing the wireless channels through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xinhong Dai , Bin Duo , Xin Wang , Xiaojun Yuan

Mobile edge computing (MEC) and terahertz (THz)enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems are gaining significant attention for improving user service delays in future mobile networks. This article introduces a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Heekang Song , Hyowoon Seo , Wan Choi

In this paper, we consider multiple solar-powered wireless nodes which utilize the harvested solar energy to transmit collected data to multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the uplink. In this context, we jointly design UAV flight…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Chien-Wei Fu , Meng-Lin Ku , Yu-Jia Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper investigates a multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled cooperative secure transmission scheme in the presence of multiple potential eavesdroppers. Specifically, multiple source UAVs (SUAVs) send confidential information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Meng Hua , Yi Wang , Qingqing Wu , Haibo Dai , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the intrinsic three-dimensional (3D) mobility provides an ideal platform for implementing aerial movable antenna (AMA) system enabled by UAV swarm cooperation. Besides, AMA system is readily to achieve an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haiquan Lu , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Shaodan Ma , Long Shi , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

This paper presents models and optimization algorithms to jointly optimize the design and control of the transmission of electric vehicles equipped with one central electric motor (EM). First, considering the required traction power to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Juriaan van den Hurk , Mauro Salazar

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) network, where a UAV flies at a constant altitude in the sky to provide wireless energy supply for a set of ground nodes with a linear topology.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yulin Hu , Xiaopeng Yuan , Jie Xu , Anke Schmeink

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which are at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, have unmatched potential for pioneering applications in a wide range of disciplines. In particular, in the field of cognitive radio (CR), which is a key…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Anas Osman , Morteza Alijani

By fully exploiting the mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAV-based aerial base stations (BSs) can move closer to ground users to achieve better communication conditions. In this paper, we consider a scenario where an aerial BS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-24 Jingcong Sun , Christos Masouros

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, where a UAV is dispatched to collect the sensed data from distributed sensor nodes (SNs) for estimating an unknown parameter. It is revealed that in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Cheng Zhan , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This paper analyzes the energy efficiency of a novel system model where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used to provide coverage for user hotspots (user clusters) and are deployed on charging pads to enhance the flight time. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Yujie Qin , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their flexible mobility, on-demand deployment, and the ability to establish high probability line-of-sight wireless communication. As a result, UAVs have been extensively used as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Yunhao Quan , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Jinglong Shen , Longfei Ma , Zhisheng Yin

In different situations, like disaster communication and network connectivity for rural locations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could indeed be utilized as airborne base stations to improve both the functionality and coverage of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shahid Rasool , Irfan Ullah , Abid Ali , Ishtiaq Ahmad

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Priyavrat Dev Sharma , Ibrahim Sorkhoh , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

This letter presents an innovative scheme to enhance the communication rate and energy efficiency (EE) of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) by deploying the emerging fluid antenna system (FAS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Nagla Abuzgaia , Abdelhamid Salem , Ahmed Elbarsha