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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained a lot of popularity in diverse wireless communication fields. They can act as high-altitude flying relays to support communications between ground nodes due to their ability to provide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Hakim Ghazzai , Mahdi Ben Ghorbel , Andreas Kassler , Md. Jahangir Hossain

This paper studies the problem of securing task offloading transmissions from ground users against ground eavesdropping threats. Our study introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mobile edge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of sensors via distributed beamforming. We consider the delay-sensitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

During the last few years, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with sensors and cameras has emerged as a cutting-edge technology to provide services such as surveillance, infrastructure inspections, and target acquisition.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Alessandro Traspadini , Marco Giordani , Giovanni Giambene , Tomaso De Cola , Michele Zorzi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained wide research interests due to their technological advancement and high mobility. The UAVs are equipped with increasingly advanced capabilities to run computationally intensive applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Wei Chong Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Chunyan Miao , Zhu Han , Dong In Kim

In this paper, we propose a data-driven framework for collaborative wideband spectrum sensing and scheduling for networked unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which act as the secondary users to opportunistically utilize detected spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Sravan Reddy Chintareddy , Keenan Roach , Kenny Cheung , Morteza Hashemi

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of ground nodes (GNs) via distributed beamforming. We consider two scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

In this paper, a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) mobile edge computing system is studied in which the multiple UAVs are served by terrestrial base station (TBS) for computation task offloading. Our goal is to minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Meng Hua , Yi Wang , Qingqing Wu , Chunguo Li , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

In post-disaster scenarios, rapid and efficient delivery of medical resources is critical and challenging due to severe damage to infrastructure. To provide an optimized solution, we propose a cooperative trajectory optimization and task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kaiyuan Chen , Wanpeng Zhao , Yongxi Liu , Yuanqing Xia , Wannian Liang , Shuo Wang

Integrated communication and sensing, which can make full use of the limited spectrum resources to perform communication and sensing tasks simultaneously, is an up-and-coming technology in wireless communication networks. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hongjiang Lei , Congke Jiang , Ki-Hong Park , Mohamed A. Aboulhassan , Sen Zhou , Gaofeng Pan

Over the air computation (AirComp) is a promising technique that addresses big data collection and fast wireless data aggregation. However, in a network where wireless communication and AirComp coexist, mutual interference becomes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Xunqiang Lan , Xiao Tang , Ruonan Zhang , Bin Li , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

The integration of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology in 6G Internet of Things (IoT) networks faces significant challenges in remote areas and disaster scenarios where ground infrastructure is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yue Chen , Hui Kang , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Boxiong Wang , Jiacheng Wang , Cong Liang , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato

To support the running of human-centric metaverse applications on mobile devices, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing (WPMEC) is promising to compensate for limited computational capabilities and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Xiaojie Wang , Jiameng Li , Zhaolong Ning , Qingyang Song , Lei Guo , Abbas Jamalipour

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables low-latency and high-bandwidth applications by bringing computation and data storage closer to end-users. Intelligent computing is an important application of MEC, where computing resources are used to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Yapeng Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

In large-scale UAV swarms, dynamically executing machine learning tasks can pose significant challenges due to network volatility and the heterogeneous resource constraints of each UAV. Traditional approaches often rely on centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Talip Tolga Sarı , Gökhan Seçinti , Angelo Trotta

In this paper, we focus on a typical cooperative communication system with one pair of source and destination, where a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying from a start location to an end location serves as a mobile relay. To efficiently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sixing Yin , Jing Tan , Lihua Li

This paper proposes a novel mission planning platform, capable of efficiently deploying a team of UAVs to cover complex-shaped areas, in various remote sensing applications. Under the hood lies a novel optimization scheme for grid-based…

This paper proposes an innovative approach by leveraging uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs) and a high-altitude platform station (HAPS) as the central processing unit (CPU) in an integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Parisa Kanani , Mohammad Javad Omidi , Mahmoud Modarres-Hashemi , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Efficient data collection methods play a major role in helping us better understand the Earth and its ecosystems. In many applications, the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović