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The need for a rapid-to-deploy solution for providing wireless cellular services can be realized by unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs). To the best of our knowledge, this letter is the first in literature that studies a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Mohamed Alzenad , Amr El-Keyi , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as an aerial base station is a promising technology to rapidly provide wireless connectivity to ground users. Given UAV's agility and mobility, a key question is how to adapt UAV deployment to best cater to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Zhe Wang , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated communication and localization network in emergency scenarios where a single UAV is deployed as both an airborne base station (BS) and anchor node to assist…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Suzhi Bi , Jiaxing Yu , Zheyuan Yang , Xiaohui Lin , Yuan Wu

UAV swarms can form virtual antenna arrays to exploit additional spatial degrees of freedom and enhance integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). The optimization of UAV positions is challenging due to the distributed nature of swarms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Dusit Niyato , Ekram Hossain

In this paper, a software-based simulator for the deployment of base station-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a cellular network is proposed. To this end, the Google Earth Engine platform and its included image processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Aaron French , Mohammad Mozaffari , Abdelrahman Eldosouky , Walid Saad

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled relaying system where multiple UAVs are deployed as aerial relays to support simultaneous communications from a set of source nodes to their destination nodes on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Zhenyu Kang , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

The ground fixed base stations (BSs) are often deployed inflexibly, and have high overheads, as well as are susceptible to the damage from natural disasters, making it impractical for them to continuously collect data from sensor devices.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Lingling Liu , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Hongyang Pan , Tony Q. S. Quek

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-to-Ground path loss model, which assumes that the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Ayoub Alsarhan , Issa Khalil , Ahmad Sawalmeh , Noor Shamsiah Othman

This study proposes an efficient data collection strategy exploiting a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to monitor and collect the data of a large distributed sensor network usually used for environmental monitoring, meteorology,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-12 S. MahmoudZadeh , A. Yazdani , A. Elmi , A. Abbasi , P. Ghanooni

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

Aerial base stations (BSs) attached to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) constitute a new paradigm for next-generation cellular communications. However, the flight range and communication capacity of aerial BSs are usually limited due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Lin Xiang , Lei Lei , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Robert Schober

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations can deliver a fast and flexible solution for serving varying traffic demand. In order to adequately benefit of UAVs deployment, their efficient placement is of utmost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , M. Mahdi Azari , William Melek , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with mounted base stations are a promising technology for monitoring smart farms. They can provide communication and computation services to extensive agricultural regions. With the assistance of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Anne Catherine Nguyen , Turgay Pamuklu , Aisha Syed , W. Sean Kennedy , Melike Erol-Kantarci

As urban logistics demand continues to grow, UAV delivery has become a key solution to improve delivery efficiency, reduce traffic congestion, and lower logistics costs. However, to fully leverage the potential of UAV delivery networks,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Han Liu , Tian Liu , Kai Huang

As the demands for immediate and effective responses increase in both civilian and military domains, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms emerge as effective solutions, in which multiple cooperative UAVs can work together to achieve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ziye Jia , Jiahao You , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Fuhui Zhou , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with mobile edge computing (MEC) and Internet of Things (IoT) technology in smart farms is pivotal for efficient resource management and enhanced agricultural productivity sustainably. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Tingnan Bao , Aisha Syed , William Sean Kennedy , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Over the last decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively used in many commercial applications due to their manageability and risk avoidance. One of the main problems considered is the Mission Planning for multiple UAVs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Cristian Ramirez-Atencia , Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez , David Camacho

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a key enabler for next-generation wireless networks due to their on-demand deployment, high mobility, and ability to provide Line-of-Sight (LoS) connectivity. These features make UAVs…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kamran Shafafi , Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with flexible deployment contribute to enlarging the distance of information transmission to mobile users (MUs) in constrained environment. However, due to the high mobility of both UAVs and MUs, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jing Zhang , Sheng Gao , Xin Feng , Hongwei Yang , Geng Sun

This paper studies a multi-UAV wireless network, in which multiple UAV users share the same spectrum to send individual messages to their respectively associated ground base stations (GBSs). The UAV users aim to optimize their locations to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Haoyun Li , Peiming Li , Jie Xu , Junting Chen , Yong Zeng