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To mitigate the loss of satellite navigation signals in urban canyons and indoor environments, we propose an active simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (ASTARS) empowered satellite positioning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yu Zhang , Xin Sun , Tianwei Hou , Anna Li , Sofie Pollin , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications (SatCom) are considered a promising solution to provide uninterrupted services in cellular networks. Line-of-sight (LoS) links between the LEO satellites and the ground users are, however,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Xiaowen Tian , Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic , Takayuki Shimizu

Accurate indoor node localization is critical for practical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, as Global Positioning System (GPS) fails to provide reliable Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions in most indoor environments. Real-world…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ze Zhang , Qian Dong

This paper studies the adaptive trajectory design of a rotary-wing UAV serving as a relay between ground nodes dispersed in a circular cell and generating uplink data transmissions randomly according to a Poisson process, and a central base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Matthew Bliss , Nicolò Michelusi

In this paper the throughput and energy efficiency of an unlicensed machine type communications network is studied. If an outage event happens in the network, there is a possibility for packet retransmissions in order to obtain a lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Iran Ramezanipour , Hirley Alves , Pedro J. H. Nardelli , Ari Pouttu

This paper presents a stochastic geometry model for the investigation of fundamental information theoretic limitations in wireless networks. We derive a new unified multi-parameter cut-set bound on the capacity of networks of arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-02 Georgios Rodolakis

In this paper, we perform a thorough analysis of tree-algorithms with multi-packet reception (MPR) and successive interference cancellation (SIC), showing a number of novel results. We first derive the basic performance parameters, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Cedomir Stefanović , Yash Deshpande , H. Murat Gürsu , Wolfgang Kellerer

This paper evaluates the geometrically averaged performance of a wireless communication network assisted by a multitude of distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where the RIS locations are randomly dropped obeying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen

We develop a unified framework for distributed inference, semantic communication, and exploration in spatial networks by integrating stochastic geometry with information geometry - a direction that has not been explored in prior literature.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Gourab Ghatak

Despite coverage enhancement in rural areas is one of the main requirements in next generations of wireless networks (i.e., 5G and 6G), the low expected profit prevents telecommunication providers from investing in such sparsely populated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Maurilio Matracia , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper provides a statistical characterization of the individual achievable rates in bits/s/Hz and the spatial throughput of bipolar Poisson wireless networks in bits/s/Hz/m$^2$. We assume that all transmitters have a cognitive ability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Carlos H. Morais de Lima , Hirley Alves , Paulo Cardieri , Matti Latva-aho

High altitude platform (HAP) drones can provide broadband wireless connectivity to ground users in rural areas by establishing line-of-sight (LoS) links and exploiting effective beamforming techniques. However, at high altitudes, acquiring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 P. G. Sudheesh , Mohammad Mozaffari , Maurizio Magarini , Walid Saad , P. Muthuchidambaranathan

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) corridor-assisted communication networks are expected to expand significantly in the upcoming years driven by several technological, regulatory, and societal trends. In this new type of networks, accurate and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Harris K. Armeniakos , Viktor Nikolaidis , Petros S. Bithas , Konstantinos Maliatsos , Athanasios G. Kanatas

Reliable and resilient communication is essential for disaster recovery and emergency response, yet terrestrial infrastructure often fails during large-scale natural disasters. This paper proposes a High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Bilal Karaman , Ilhan Basturk , Engin Zeydan , Ferdi Kara , Esra Aycan Beyazit , Sezai Taskin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

This paper analyzes the age of information (AoI) for a pinching antenna (PA)-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN) with probabilistic line-of-sight (LoS) blockage. AoI is a key metric for evaluating the freshness of status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Huimin Hu , Ruihong Jiang , Yanqing Xu , Jiarui Ma , Fang Fang

In this paper we present an approach to control a vehicle in a hostile environment with static obstacles and moving adversaries. The vehicle is required to satisfy a mission objective expressed as a temporal logic specification over a set…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Igor Cizelj , Xu Chu Ding , Morteza Lahijanian , Alessandro Pinto , Calin Belta

Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are of great potential to serve as aerial access points (APs) owing to better aerodynamic performance and longer flight endurance. However, the inherent hovering feature of fixed-wing UAVs may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Junyu Liu , Min Sheng , Ruiling Lyu , Yan Shi , Jiandong Li

Motivated by an application in wireless telecommunication networks, we consider a two-type continuum-percolation problem involving a homogeneous Poisson point process of users and a stationary and ergodic point process of base stations.…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-19 Christian Hirsch

For reliable and efficient communications of aerial platforms, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the cellular network is envisioned to provide connectivity for the aerial and ground user equipment (GUE) simultaneously, which brings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhuangzhuang Cui , Ke Guan , İsmail Güvenç , Claude Oestges , Zhangdui Zhong

For users in hotspot region, orbital angular momentum (OAM) can realize multifold increase of spectrum efficiency (SE), and the flying base station (FBS) can rapidly support the real-time communication demand. However, the hollow divergence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ruirui Chen , Yu Ding , Beibei Zhang , Song Li , Liping Liang