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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

The mushroom growth of cellular users requires novel advancements in the existing cellular infrastructure. One way to handle such a tremendous increase is to densely deploy terrestrial small-cell base stations (TSBSs) with careful…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Muhammad K. Shehzad , Arsalan Ahmad , Syed Ali Hassan , Haejoon Jung

Recently, passive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization has become popular due to mobility and convenience. In this paper, we consider a scenario of using distributed drone cluster to estimate the position of a passive emitter via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Xin Cheng , Weiping Shi , Wenlong Cai , Weiqiang Zhu , Tong Shen , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as the potential aerial base stations (BSs) to improve terrestrial communications. However, the limited onboard energy and antenna power of a UAV restrict its communication range and transmission…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Geng Sun , Jian Xiao , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with radar imaging sensors has revolutionized the monitoring of dynamic and local Earth surface processes by enabling high-resolution and cost-effective remote sensing. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Pouya Fakharizadeh , Víctor Mustieles-Pérez , Martin Vossiek , Gerhard Krieger , Robert Schober

For crowded and hotspot area, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are usually deployed to increase the coverage rate. In the considered model, there are three types of services for UAV assisted communication: control message, non-realtime…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Weihang Ding , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) increasingly rely on connectivity for efficient traffic management and enhanced user experience. The existing ITS solutions operate mainly within a 2D domain, thus missing the potential benefits of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Abdul Saboor , Evgenii Vinogradov , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Sander Coene , Wout Joseph , Sofie Pollin

Due to the fact that the locations of base stations (BSs) cannot be changed after they are installed, it is very difficult to communicate directly with remote user equipment (UE), which will directly affect the lifespan of the system.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Xueqi Zhang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Lingling Liu , Jing Zhang

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network can serve as an aerial relay to periodically receive packets from macro base stations (BSs). Severe packet loss may happen especially when UAVs have bad wireless connections to a BS. In this paper, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Hao Song , Lingjia Liu , Ananth Balasubramanian

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used for a wide range of applications. Due to characteristics such as the ability to hover and carry cargo on-board, rotary-wing UAVs have been considered suitable platforms for carrying communications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Pedro Ribeiro , André Coelho , Rui Campos

To improve the localization precision of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a novel framework is established by jointly utilizing multiple measurements of received signal strength (RSS) from multiple base stations (BSs) and multiple points on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Yifan Li , Feng Shu , Baihua Shi , Xin Cheng , Yaoliang Song , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, the optimal deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as flying base stations is investigated. Considering the downlink scenario, the goal is to minimize the total required transmit power of UAVs while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

This paper proposes a real-time movement control algorithm for massive unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that provide emergency cellular connections in an urban disaster site. While avoiding the inter-UAV collision under temporal wind…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Hyesung Kim , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

In this paper, the real-time deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying base stations (BSs) for optimizing the throughput of mobile users is investigated for UAV networks. This problem is formulated as a time-varying…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Zhiwei Chen , Yi Zhong , Xiaohu Ge , Yi Ma

This paper presents a UAV-based optimal crop-dusting method to control anomalously diffusing infestation of crops. Two anomalous diffusion models are considered, which are, respectively, time-fractional order diffusion equation and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Jianxiong Cao , YangQuan Chen , Changpin Li

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication systems, where multiple multi-purpose UAV base stations are dispatched to provide secure communications to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ruide Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Lei Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Jianping An

In this paper, we design a navigation policy for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) where mobile base stations (BSs) are deployed to improve the data freshness and connectivity to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. First, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Sarder Fakhrul Abedin , Md. Shirajum Munir , Nguyen H. Tran , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communications is a promising solution to improve the performance of future wireless networks, where UAVs are deployed as base stations for enhancing the quality of service (QoS) provided to ground…

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

This paper studies the optimal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) placement problem for wireless networking. The UAV operates as a flying wireless relay to provide coverage extension for a base station (BS) and deliver capacity boost to a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Junting Chen , David Gesbert

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can serve as aerial base stations (BSs) to extend the ubiquitous connectivity for ground users (GUs) in the sixth-generation (6G) era. However, it is challenging to cooperatively deploy multiple UAV swarms in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ziye Jia , Jia He , Lijun He , Min Sheng , Junyu Liu , Qihui Wu , Zhu Han