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Reliable coordination and efficient communication are critical challenges for multi-agent robotic exploration of environments where communication is limited. This work introduces Adaptive-RF Transmission (ART), a novel communication-aware…

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In this paper a novel multi-hop relay-assisted hybrid FSO / RF system is presented. It is assumed that direct RF connection between mobile users and source Base Station is impossible, therefore a relay connects RF users to the source Base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Mohammad Ali Amirabadi

The appearance of sixth-generation networks has resulted in the proposal of several solutions to tackle signal loss. One of these solutions is the utilization of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), which can reflect or refract…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Md. Mijanur Rahman , A. S. M. Badrudduza , Noor Ahmad Sarker , Md. Ibrahim , Imran Shafique Ansari

With the explosive growth of mobile data, the demand of high-speed railway (HSR) passengers for broadband wireless access services urgently needs the support of ultra-highspeed scenario broadband wireless communication. Millimeterwave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yunhan Ma , Yong Niu , Zhu Han , Bo Ai , Kai Li , Zhangdui Zhong , Ning Wang

Localizing radio frequency (RF) sources with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has many important applications. As a result, UAV-based localization has been the focus of much research. However, previous approaches rely heavily on custom…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Louis Dressel , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In this letter, we study the performance of hybrid radio-frequency (RF) and free-space optical (FSO) links using automatic repeat request (ARQ). We derive closed-form expressions for the message decoding probabilities, throughput, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Behrooz Makki , Tommy Svensson , Thomas Eriksson , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we consider the application of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication systems, which exploits both the significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Zhiqiang Wei , Yuanxin Cai , Zhuo Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Mingyu Zhou , Lixin Sun

In this letter, we study a wireless communication system with a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) employed to collect information from a group of ground nodes (GNs). Our objective is to maximize the UAV's energy efficiency (EE),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Jingwei Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, a novel communication framework that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-carried intelligent reflector (IR) is proposed to enhance multi-user downlink transmissions over millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Qianqian Zhang , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems has been recently proposed to provide high data rate aerial links for next generation wireless networks. However, establishing UAV-based mmWave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-07 Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Hossein Safi , Saeedeh Parsaeefard , Walid Saad

We present a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle control (UAV) and estimation system for supporting replicable research through realistic simulations and real-world experiments. We propose a unique multi-frame localization paradigm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tomas Baca , Matej Petrlik , Matous Vrba , Vojtech Spurny , Robert Penicka , Daniel Hert , Martin Saska

To accomplish various tasks, safe and smooth control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) needs to be guaranteed, which cannot be met by existing ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC). This has attracted the attention of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Wenchao Wu , Yanning Wu , Yuanqing Yang , Yansha Deng

The presence of a super high rate, but also cost-efficient, easy-to-deploy, and scalable, backhaul/fronthaul framework is essential in the upcoming fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks \& beyond. Motivated by the mounting interest in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Mohamed Alzenad , Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper tackles the optimization of the point spread function (PSF) of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-borne multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography systems. A swarm of UAV-borne SAR systems is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Pouya Fakharizadeh , Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Gerhard Krieger , Robert Schober

This paper investigates joint trajectory and active beamforming design for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) systems under finite blocklength (FBL) transmission. Unlike conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Asim Ihsan , Muhammad Asif , Ali Arshad Nasir , Khaled M. Rabie , Wali Ullah Khan

Rotating magnets have recently emerged as an efficient method for producing ultra-low frequency signals for through-earth and through-seawater communications. Magneto-mechanical resonator (MMR) arrays, which are magnetized torsional rotors…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Chengzhang Li , Ali Kanj , Jiheng Jing , Gaurav Bahl , Sameh Tawfick

Millimeter wave (mmWave)-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is a promising candidate for future communications due to its flexibility and sufficient bandwidth. However, random fluctuations in the position of hovering UAVs…

Computation · Statistics 2023-06-13 Cunyan Ma , Xiaoya Li , Chen He , Jinye Peng , Z. Jane Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a revolutionary and low-cost technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiencies in future wireless communication network. In order to create controllable multipath transmission in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Rongen Dong , Shaohua Jiang , Xinhai Hua , Yin Teng , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Backscatter communication (BC) becomes a promising energy-efficient solution for future wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enable flexible data collection from remote backscatter devices (BDs), yet conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Yu Bai , Boxuan Xie , Ruifan Zhu , Zheng Chang , Riku Jantti

With densification of nodes in cellular networks, free space optic (FSO) connections are becoming an appealing low cost and high rate alternative to copper and fiber as the backhaul solution for wireless communication systems. To ensure a…

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