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Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms are increasingly used as rapidly deployable aerial relays and sensing platforms, yet practical deployments must operate under partial observability and intermittent peer-to-peer links. We…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Enguang Fan , Yifan Chen , Zihan Shan , Matthew Caesar , Jae Kim

Coordinated missions involving Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments pose significant challenges in maintaining both coordination and agility. In this paper, relying on the cooperative path following framework and using a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mikayel Aramyan , Anna Manucharyan , Lusine Poghosyan , Tigran Bakaryan , Naira Hovakimyan

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based networks and Internet of Things (IoT) are being considered as integral components of current and next-generation wireless networks. In particular, UAVs can provide IoT devices with seamless connectivity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy

With the growing demand for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks in sensitive applications, such as urban monitoring, emergency response, and secure sensing, ensuring reliable connectivity and covert communication has become increasingly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xin Tang , Qian Chen , Fengshun Li , Youchun Gong , Yinqiu Liu , Wen Tian , Shaowen Qin , Xiaohuan Li

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now beginning to be deployed for enhancing the network performance and coverage in wireless communication. However, due to the limitation of their on-board power and flight time, it is challenging to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Tan Do-Duy , Holger Claussen , and Lajos Hanzo

Advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) design have opened up applications as varied as surveillance, firefighting, cellular networks, and delivery applications. Additionally, due to decreases in cost, systems employing fleets of UAVs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Alvi Ataur Khalil , Alexander J Byrne , Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman , Mohammad Hossein Manshaei

This paper focuses on the optimal coverage problem (OCP) for multi-agent systems with a decentralized optimization mechanism. A game based distributed decision-making method for the multi-agent OCP is proposed to address the high…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Zixin Feng , Wenchao Xue , Yifen Mu , Ming Wei , Bin Meng , Wei Cui

Due to flexibility and low-cost, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly crucial for enhancing coverage and functionality of wireless networks. However, incorporating UAVs into next-generation wireless communication systems poses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Qingqing Wu , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Yuanwei Liu

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

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianjiao Sun , Ningyan Guo , Haozhe Gu , Yanyan Peng , Zhiyong Feng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted a lot of research attention because of their high mobility and low cost in serving as temporary aerial base stations (BSs) and providing high data rates for next-generation communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Yuan-ai Xie , Yanyu Cheng , Jiawen Kang , Dong In Kim

In dynamic urban logistics, the stochastic emergence of time-sensitive tasks poses a significant optimality challenge for heterogeneous AAVs logistics task allocation. To address this problem, a reinforcement learning enhanced overlapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuze Zhou , Jingliang Sun , Junzhi Li , Jianxin Zhong , Zihan Wang , Teng Long

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an essential role in future wireless communication networks due to their high mobility, low cost, and on-demand deployment. In air-to-ground links, UAVs are widely used to enhance the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hongjiang Lei , Dongyang Meng , Haoxiang Ran , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

To improve the anti-jamming ability of the UAV-aided communication systems, this paper investigates the channel selection optimization problem in face of both internal mutual interference and external malicious jamming. A cooperative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yueyue Su , Nan Qi , Zanqi Huang , Rugui Yao , Luliang Jia

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly prevalent in various domains, ranging from military operations to civilian applications. However, the proliferation of UAVs has also given rise to concerns regarding their potential…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Oleg Malafeyev , Kun Zhang

Nowadays, companies such as Amazon, Alibaba, and even pizza chains are pushing forward to use drones, also called UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), for service provision, such as package and food delivery. As governments intend to use these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Matthias R. Brust , Grégoire Danoy , Pascal Bouvry , Dren Gashi , Himadri Pathak , Mike P. Gonçalves

The low detectability and low cost of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) allow them to swarm near the radar network for effective jamming. The key to jamming is the reasonable task assignment and resource allocation of UAVs. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Ruiqing Han , Tianxian Zhang , Han Zhong , Yuanhang Wang

In this paper, we develop a distributed mechanism for spectrum sharing among a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and licensed terrestrial networks. This method can provide a practical solution for situations where the UAV network…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Alireza Shamsoshoara , Mehrdad Khaledi , Fatemeh Afghah , Abolfazl Razi , Jonathan Ashdown

For large unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, the timely communication is needed to accomplish a series of missions accurately and effectively. The relay technology will play an important role in UAV networks by helping drones…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Dianxiong Liu , Yuhua Xu , Jinlong Wang , Yitao Xu , Alagan Anpalagan , Qihui Wu , Hai Wang , Liang Shen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-enabled aerial communication provides a flexible, reliable, and cost-effective solution for a range of wireless applications. However, due to the high line-of-sight (LoS) probability, aerial communications…

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