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Deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks to provide coverage for outdoor users has attracted great attention during the last decade. However, outdoor coverage is challenging due to the high mobility of crowds and the diverse terrain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zhengying Lou , Ruibo Wang , Baha Eddine Youcef Belmekki , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we analyze a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel where nodes are randomly distributed on a plane as a spatial Poisson cluster point process. Each cluster uses interference alignment (IA) to suppress…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-20 Behrang Nosrat-Makouei , Radha Krishna Ganti , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath

The cross-correlation of the Ly-alpha forest and redshifted 21-cm emission has recently been proposed as an observational tool for mapping out the large-scale structures in the post-reionization era z < 6. This has a significant advantage…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-06 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj

Natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes immensely impact the telecommunication network infrastructure, leading to the malfunctioning and interruption of wireless services. Consequently, the user devices under the disaster zone are…

In this correspondence, we study the physical layer security in a stochastic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) network from a network-wide perspective, where the locations of UAVs are modeled as a Mat$\acute{\text{e}}$rn hard-core point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiawei Lyu , Hui-Ming Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) provide alternative routes for reflected signals to network users, offering numerous applications. This paper explores an innovative approach of strategically deploying RISs along road areas to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-12 Chang-Sik Choi , Junhyeong Kim , Junil Choi

Recently, stochastic geometry has been applied to provide tractable performance analysis for low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks. However, existing works mainly focus on analyzing the ``coverage probability'', which provides limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yanshi Sun , Zhiguo Ding

Future wireless networks are expected to be a convergence of many diverse network technologies and architectures, such as cellular networks, wireless local area networks, sensor networks, and device to device communications. Through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Young Jin Chun , Simon L. Cotton , Mazen O. Hasna , Ali Ghrayeb

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating as aerial base stations (BSs) has emerged as a promising solution especially in scenarios requiring rapid deployments (e.g., in the cases of crowded hotspots, sporting events,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Esma Turgut , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

We investigate the potential impact of communication and human performance uncertainties on runway operations. Specifically, we consider these impacts within the context of an arrival scenario with two converging flows: a straight-in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Yutian Pang , Andrew Kendall , John-Paul Clarke

Accurate modeling of line-of-sight (LOS) probability is crucial for wireless channel description and coverage planning. The presence of a LOS impacts other channel characteristics such as pathloss, fading depth, delay- and angular spread,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Bassel Abou Ali Modad , Xin Yu , Yao-Yi Chiang , Andreas F. Molisch

We consider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless communication employing UAVs as relay nodes to increase the throughput between a pair of transmitter and receiver. We focus on developing effective methods to position the UAV(s)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ali Rahmati , Huaiyu Dai

This paper jointly optimizes the flying location and wireless communication transmit power for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) conducting covert operations. This is motivated by application scenarios such as military ground surveillance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shihao Yan , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings

We analyze the performance of an interference-limited, decode-and-forward, cooperative relaying system that comprises a source, a destination, and $N$ relays, placed arbitrarily on the plane and suffering from interference by a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Alessandro Crismani , Udo Schilcher , Günther Brandner , Stavros Toumpis , Christian Bettstetter

In this paper, we propose a novel decentralized control method to maintain Line-of-Sight connectivity for multi-robot networks in the presence of Guassian-distributed localization uncertainty. In contrast to most existing work that assumes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yupeng Yang , Yiwei Lyu , Yanze Zhang , Sha Yi , Wenhao Luo

The additional degree of freedom (DoF) in the distance domain of near-field communication offers new opportunities for physical layer security (PLS) design. However, existing works mainly consider static eavesdroppers, and the related study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Yiming Xu , Mingxuan Zheng , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song , Daniel Benevides da Costa

We study multiple base station, multi-access systems in which the user-base station adjacency is induced by geographical proximity. At each slot, each user transmits (is active) with a certain probability, independently of other users, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Vladimir Crnojevic

This correspondence studies the secrecy communication of the single-input single-output multi-eavesdropper (SISOME) channel with multiple single-antenna jammers, where the jammers and eavesdroppers are distributed according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chao Wang , Hui-Ming Wang

In this paper, we study coverage probabilities of the UAV-assisted cellular network modeled by 2-dimension (2D) Poisson point process. The cellular user is assumed to connect to the nearest aerial base station. We derive the explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Lai Zhou , Zhi Yang , Shidong Zhou , Wei Zhang

This paper presents the design and implementation of an assisted control technology for a small multirotor platform for aerial inspection of fixed energy infrastructure. Sensor placement is supported by a theoretical analysis of expected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Aaron McFadyen , Feras Dayoub , Steve Martin , Jason Ford , Peter Corke