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This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled multicasting system, where a UAV is dispatched to disseminate a common file to a number of geographically distributed ground terminals (GTs). Our objective is to design the UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Rui Zhang

The area coverage problem is the task of efficiently servicing a given two-dimensional surface using sensors mounted on robots such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). We present a novel formulation for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Saurav Agarwal , Srinivas Akella

We study the routing problem for vehicles with limited energy through a network of inhomogeneous charging nodes. This is substantially more complicated than the homogeneous node case studied in [1]. We seek to minimize the total elapsed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Sepideh Pourazarm , Christos G. Cassandras

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled radio access network (RAN) with the UAV acting as an aerial platform to communicate with a set of ground users (GUs) in a variety of modes of practical interest, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jingwei Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have great potential in urban traffic monitoring due to their rapid speed, cost-effectiveness, and extensive field-of-view, while being unconstrained by traffic congestion. However, their limited flight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Yumeng Bai , Yiheng Feng

Ensuring energy feasibility under wind uncertainty is critical for the safety and reliability of UAV delivery missions. In realistic truck-drone logistics systems, UAVs must deliver parcels and safely return under time-varying wind…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Tianshun Li , Hongliang Lu , Yanggang Sheng , Zhongzhen Wang , Haoang Li , Xinhu Zheng

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

In this paper, we consider deploying multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance the computation service of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) through collaborative computation among UAVs. In particular, the tasks of different types and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Bin Li , Rongrong Yang , Lei Liu , Celimuge Wu

Due to its agility and mobility, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology to provide high-quality mobile services (e.g., fast Internet access, edge computing, and local caching) to ground users. Major Internet Service…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-10 Xuehe Wang , Lingjie Duan

In this paper, the problem of joint caching and resource allocation is investigated for a network of cache-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that service wireless ground users over the LTE licensed and unlicensed (LTE-U) bands. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Changchuan Yin

Efficiently obtaining the up-to-date information in the disaster-stricken area is the key to successful disaster response. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), workers and cars can collaborate to accomplish sensing tasks, such as data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Lei Han , Chunyu Tu , Zhiwen Yu , Zhiyong Yu , Weihua Shan , Liang Wang , Bin Guo

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectory in multi-UAV non-cooperative scenarios while collecting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Dynamic low altitude networks offer significant potential for efficient and reliable data transport via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relays which usually operate with predetermined trajectories. However, it is challenging to optimize the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Bowen Li , Junting Chen

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for exploration-driven monitoring in hazardous environments such as disaster zones, contaminated sites, wildfire areas, and damaged infrastructure, where limited flight endurance must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jimin Choi , Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson , Max Z. Li

In intelligent low-altitude networks, integrating monitoring tasks into communication unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can consume resources and increase handoff latency for communication links. To address this challenge, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Jiahui Liang , Wenlihan Lu , Tianyi Liu , Kang Kang , Guixin Pan , Liuqing Yang , Xinhu Zheng , Shijian Gao

The paper presents an approach to solving the Robust Energy Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (RECVRP), focusing on electric vehicles and their limited battery capacity. A finite number of customers, each with their own demand, have to be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Mark Pustilnik , Francesco Borrelli

We consider device-to-device (D2D) wireless information and power transfer systems using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a relay-assisted node. As the energy capacity and flight time of UAVs is limited, a significant issue in deploying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Minh-Nghia Nguyen , Long D. Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang Duong Tuan

Motivated by the problem of scheduling electric vehicle (EV) charging with a minimum charging threshold in smart distribution grids, we introduce the resource allocation problem (RAP) with a symmetric separable convex objective function and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Martijn H. H. Schoot Uiterkamp

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based multi-access edge computing (MEC) appears as a popular paradigm to reduce task processing latency. However, the secure offloading is an important issue when occurring aerial eavesdropping. Besides,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Jiahao You , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Han Zhu

The adoption of UAVs in communication networks is becoming reality thanks to the deployment of advanced solutions for connecting UAVs and using them as communication relays. However, the use of UAVs introduces novel energy constraints and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Edgar Arribas , Vicent Cholvi , Vincenzo Mancuso