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This paper addresses the challenge of energy-constrained maritime monitoring networks by proposing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing, communication, powering and backhaul transmission scheme with a tailored…

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Recently, the integration of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and visible light communication (VLC) technologies has emerged as a promising solution to offer flexible communication and efficient lighting. This letter investigates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Tian-Tian Lin , Yi Liu , Xiao-Wei Tang , Yunmei Shi , Yi Huang , Zhongxiang Wei , Qingqing Wu , Yuhan Dong

UAVs are increasingly becoming vital tools in various wireless communication applications including internet of things (IoT) and sensor networks, thanks to their rapid and agile non-terrestrial mobility. Despite recent research, planning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Pei-Fa Sun , Yujae Song , Kang-Yu Gao , Yu-Kai Wang , Changjun Zhou , Sang-Woon Jeon , Jun Zhang

This paper investigates ground-aerial uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) cellular networks. A rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) user and multiple ground users (GUEs) are served by ground base stations (GBSs) by utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin

This paper presents a non-linear optimization method for trajectory planning of tethered aerial robots. Particularly, the paper addresses the planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) linked to an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 S. Martinez-Rozas , D. Alejo , F. Caballero , L. Merino

This paper investigates the coordinated trajectory tracking problem of multiple vertical takeooff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The case of unidirectional information flow is considered and the objective is to drive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Yao Zou , Ziyang Meng

In this paper, we investigate the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided simultaneous uplink and downlink transmission networks, where one UAV acting as a disseminator is connected to multiple access points, and the other UAV acting as a base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Qingqing Wu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided data collection is a new and promising application in many practical scenarios. In this work, we study the age-optimal trajectory planning problem in UAV-enabled wireless sensor networks, where a UAV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Juan Liu , Xijun Wang , Bo Bai , Huaiyu Dai

Emergency communication is extremely important to aid rescue and search operation in the aftermath of any disaster. In such scenario, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks may be used to complement the damaged cellular networks over large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Sharvari N P , Dibakar Das , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

We study route scheduling of a UAV for data collec-tion from remote sensor nodes (SNs) with battery recharging. Thefreshness of the collected information is captured by the metric ofage of information (AoI). The objective is to minimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan , Yixin Zhao

Fog computing is an emerging distributed computing model for the Internet of Things (IoT). It extends computing and caching functions to the edge of wireless networks. Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide adequate support for fog…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Shuaijun Liu , Jiaying Yin , Zishu Zeng , Jingjin Wu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication is a promising technology in future wireless communication networks. UAVs can not only help offload data traffic from ground base stations (GBSs), but also improve the quality of service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Yukuan Ji , Zhaohui Yang , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Xiaodai Dong

To prolong the lifetime of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the UAVs need to fulfill their missions in the shortest possible time. In addition to this requirement, in many applications, the UAVs require a reliable internet connection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Behzad Khamidehi , Elvino S. Sousa

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 letter, we investigate a UAV-enabled communication system, where a UAV is deployed to communicate with the ground node (GN) in the presence of multiple jammers. We aim to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) of the UAV by optimizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yang Wu , Weiwei Yang , Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which a UAV is dispatched as a mobile access point (AP) to serve a set of ground users periodically. The UAV employs the radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Lifeng Xie , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

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

Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a vital role in monitoring and data collection in wide area environments with harsh conditions. In most scenarios, issues such as real-time data retrieval and real-time UAV positioning are often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ming He , Peizhao Wang , Haihua Chen , Bin Sun , Hongpeng Wang

In this paper, we propose a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing, communication, and computation network. Specifically, the treble-functional UAVs are capable of offering communication and edge computing services…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sicong Peng , Bin Li , Lei Liu , Zesong Fei , Dusit Niyato

Motivated by the need to ensure timely delivery of information (e.g., status updates) in the Internet-of-things (IoT) paradigm, this paper investigates the role of an Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile relay to minimize the average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon