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This article investigates the cache-enabling unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cellular networks with massive access capability supported by non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). The delivery of a large volume of multimedia contents for ground…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a crucial role in Maritime Search and Rescue (MSAR), contributing to the improvement of rescue efficiency and reduction of casualties. Typically, UAVs equipped with cameras collect data from disaster…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Shuang Qi , Bin Lin , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

As unmanned systems such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) become increasingly important to applications like urban sensing and emergency response, efficiently recruiting these autonomous devices to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Tianhao Shao , Kaixing Zhao , Feng Liu , Lixin Yang , Bin Guo

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have significant practical advantages for delivering packages, and many logistics companies have begun deploying UAVs for commercial package deliveries. To deliver packages quickly and cost-effectively, the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Arun Narayanan , Evangelos Pournaras , Pedro H. J. Nardelli

Exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to execute tasks is gaining growing popularity recently. To solve the underlying task scheduling problem, the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods demonstrate notable advantage over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xiao Mao , Zhiguang Cao , Mingfeng Fan , Guohua Wu , Witold Pedrycz

In this article, we report on the efficiency and effectiveness of multiagent reinforcement learning methods (MARL) for the computation of flight delays to resolve congestion problems in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) domain. Specifically,…

Package delivery via the UAVs is a promising transport mode to provide efficient and green logistic services, especially in urban areas or complicated topography. However, the energy storage limit of the UAV makes it difficult to perform…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Ziyi Lu , Na Yu , Xuehe Wang

In the current unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) for sensing services, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) transmit their sensory data to terrestrial mobile devices over the unlicensed spectrum. However, the interference from surrounding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 F. Wu , H. Zhang , J. Wu , L. Song

In this paper, we consider the problem of energy efficient uplink scheduling with delay constraint for a multi-user wireless system. We address this problem within the framework of constrained Markov decision processes (CMDPs) wherein one…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Nitin Salodkar , Abhay Karandikar , V. S. Borkar

Multi-connectivity involves dynamic cluster formation among distributed access points (APs) and coordinated resource allocation from these APs, highlighting the need for efficient mobility management strategies for users with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Irshad A. Meer , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Mustafa Ozger , Dominic Schupke , H. Vincent Poor , Cicek Cavdar

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Internet of Things (IoT) networks offers promising solutions for efficient data collection. However, the limited energy capacity of UAVs remains a significant challenge. In this case,…

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Fast and reliable wireless communication has become a critical demand in human life. In the case of mission-critical (MC) scenarios, for instance, when natural disasters strike, providing ubiquitous connectivity becomes challenging by using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongyi Zhang , Zhiqiang Qi , Jingya Li , Anders Aronsson , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

The agile mobility of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) makes them ideal for low-altitude edge computing. This paper proposes a novel multi-tier UAV edge computing system where lightweight Low-Tier UAVs (L-UAVs) function as edge servers for…

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In this paper, we study a digital twin (DT)-empowered integrated sensing, communication, and computation network. Specifically, the users perform radar sensing and computation offloading on the same spectrum, while unmanned aerial vehicles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Bin Li , Wenshuai Liu , Wancheng Xie , Ning Zhang , Yan Zhang

This paper proposes a path planning algorithm for multi-agent unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to autonomously cover a search area, while considering obstacle avoidance, as well as the capabilities and energy consumption of the employed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Sebastian Gasche , Christian Kallies , Andreas Himmel , Rolf Findeisen

In this paper, the effective use of flight-time constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying base stations that can provide wireless service to ground users is investigated. In particular, a novel framework for optimizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

The ability to operate virtually anywhere and carry payload makes Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) perfect platforms to carry communications nodes, including Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs). This is paving the way…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-09 André Coelho , Helder Fontes , Rui Campos , Manuel Ricardo

We consider multiuser scheduling in wireless networks with channel variations and flow-level dynamics. Recently, it has been shown that the MaxWeight algorithm, which is throughput-optimal in networks with a fixed number users, fails to…

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We study the problem of learning a function that maps context observations (input) to parameters of a submodular function (output). Our motivating case study is a specific type of vehicle routing problem, in which a team of Unmanned Ground…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Guangyao Shi , Pratap Tokekar

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee