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The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in many different settings has provided various solutions and strategies for networking paradigms. Therefore, it reduces the complexity of the developments for the existing problems, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Baris Yamansavascilar , Atay Ozgovde , Cem Ersoy

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently utilized in multi-access edge computing (MEC) as edge servers. It is desirable to design UAVs' trajectories and user to UAV assignments to ensure satisfactory service to the users and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hamidreza Asadian-Rad , Hossein Soleimani , Shahrokh Farahmand

This paper investigates a master unmanned aerial vehicle (MUAV)-powered Internet of Things (IoT) network, in which we propose using a rechargeable auxiliary UAV (AUAV) equipped with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Jingren Xu , Xin Kang , Ronghaixiang Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang , Sumei Sun

This paper proposes a novel design on the wireless powered communication network (WPCN) in dynamic environments under the assistance of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Unlike the existing studies, where the low-power wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Ze Yu Zhao , Yue Ling Che , Sheng Luo , Gege Luo , Kaishun Wu , Victor C. M. Leung

In critical situations such as natural disasters, network outages, battlefield communication, or large-scale public events, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising approach to maximize wireless coverage for affected users in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Xuli Cai , Poonam Lohan , Burak Kantarci

This paper studies multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) based resource allocation methods for multi-cell wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) where multiple hybrid access points (H-APs) wirelessly charge energy-limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sangwon Hwang , Hanjin Kim , Hoon Lee , Inkyu Lee

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-assisted mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has emerged as a promising paradigm for data collection. However, challenges such as spectrum scarcity, device heterogeneity, and user mobility hinder efficient coordination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xianyang Deng , Wenshuai Liu , Yaru FuB , Qi Zhu

Autonomous indoor navigation of UAVs presents numerous challenges, primarily due to the limited precision of GPS in enclosed environments. Additionally, UAVs' limited capacity to carry heavy or power-intensive sensors, such as overheight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kangtong Mo , Linyue Chu , Xingyu Zhang , Xiran Su , Yang Qian , Yining Ou , Wian Pretorius

CCTV-based surveillance using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is considered a key technology for security in smart city environments. This paper creates a case where the UAVs with CCTV-cameras fly over the city area for flexible and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Won Joon Yun , Soohyun Park , Joongheon Kim , MyungJae Shin , Soyi Jung , David A. Mohaisen , Jae-Hyun Kim

The proliferation of users, devices, and novel vehicular applications - propelled by advancements in autonomous systems and connected technologies - is precipitating an unprecedented surge in novel services. These emerging services require…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mohammad Farhoudi , Hamidreza Mazandarani , Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb , Ignacio Lacalle

Target localization is a critical task in sensitive applications, where multiple sensing agents communicate and collaborate to identify the target location based on sensor readings. Existing approaches investigated the use of Multi-Agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ahmed Alagha , Rabeb Mizouni , Shakti Singh , Jamal Bentahar , Hadi Otrok

Backscatter communication (BC) becomes a promising energy-efficient solution for future wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enable flexible data collection from remote backscatter devices (BDs), yet conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Yu Bai , Boxuan Xie , Ruifan Zhu , Zheng Chang , Riku Jantti

We study vehicle dispatching in autonomous mobility on demand (AMoD) systems, where a central operator assigns vehicles to customer requests or rejects these with the aim of maximizing its total profit. Recent approaches use multi-agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Heiko Hoppe , Tobias Enders , Quentin Cappart , Maximilian Schiffer

Due to their adaptability and mobility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly essential for wireless network services, particularly for data harvesting tasks. In this context, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Babacar Toure , Dimitrios Tsilimantos , Omid Esrafilian , Marios Kountouris

Multicast communication technology is widely applied in wireless environments with a high device density. Traditional wireless network architectures have difficulty flexibly obtaining and maintaining global network state information and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hongwen Hu , Miao Ye , Chenwei Zhao , Qiuxiang Jiang , Yong Wang , Hongbing Qiu , Xiaofang Deng

This paper introduces the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as lightweight wireless access points that leverage the fixed infrastructure in the context of the emerging open radio access network (O-RAN). More precisely, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Hossein Mohammadi , Vuk Marojevic , Bodong Shang

This paper proposes an effective and novel multiagent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL)-based method for solving the joint virtual network function (VNF) placement and routing (P&R), where multiple service requests with differentiated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Shaoyang Wang , Chau Yuen , Wei Ni , Guan Yong Liang , Tiejun Lv

To accomplish various tasks, safe and smooth control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) needs to be guaranteed, which cannot be met by existing ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC). This has attracted the attention of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Wenchao Wu , Yanning Wu , Yuanqing Yang , Yansha Deng

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assistant air-to-ground communication system, where multiple UAVs form a UAV-enabled virtual antenna array (UVAA) to communicate with remote base stations by utilizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Saichao Liu , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Shuang Liang , Qingqing Wu , Pengfei Wang , Dusit Niyato

Harvesting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices with multiple autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging problem requiring flexible path planning methods. We propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert