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Current maritime communications mainly rely on satellites having meager transmission resources, hence suffering from poorer performance than modern terrestrial wireless networks. With the growth of transcontinental air traffic, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Dong Liu , Jiankang Zhang , Jingjing Cui , Soon-Xin Ng , Robert G. Maunder , Lajos Hanzo

Natural disasters often damage ground infrastructure, making unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) essential for emergency supply delivery. Yet safe operation in complex post-disaster environments requires reliable command-and-control (C2) links;…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ping Huang , Bin Duo , Ziedor Godfred , Liuwei Huo , Jin Ning , Xiaojun Yuan , Jun Li

Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm networks (UAVSNs) can effectively execute surveillance, connectivity, and computing services to ground users (GUs). These missions require trajectory planning, UAV-GUs association, task…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Muhammad Morshed Alam , Muhammad Yeasir Aarafat , Tamim Hossain

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with multiple antennas have recently been explored to improve capacity in wireless networks. However, the strict energy constraint of UAVs, given their simultaneous flying and communication tasks, renders the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Hosein Zarini , Maryam Farajzadeh Dehkordi , Armin Farhadi , Mohammad Robat Mili , Ali Movaghar , Mehdi Rasti , Yonghui Li , Kai-Kit Wong

This paper presents a novel deep reinforcement learning-based system for 3D mapless navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Instead of using a image-based sensing approach, we propose a simple learning system that uses only a few…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising solution to provide wireless data access for ground users in various applications (e.g., in emergence situations). This paper considers a UAV-enabled wireless network, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Peiming Li , Jie Xu

In sixth-generation (6G) cellular networks and beyond, aerial platforms, such as uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), are anticipated to play a crucial role in enhancing connectivity, expanding network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Faicel Khennoufa , Khelil Abdellatif , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Safwan Alfattani , Metin Ozturk , Ferdi Kara

The forthcoming 6G-enabled Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is set to redefine conventional transportation networks with advanced intelligent services and applications. These technologies, including edge computing, Machine Learning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-18 David Naseh , Swapnil Sadashiv Shinde , Daniele Tarchi

In ultra-dense unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, it is challenging to coordinate the resource allocation and interference management among large-scale UAVs, for providing flexible and efficient service coverage to the ground users…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Fei Song , Zhe Wang , Jun Li , Long Shi , Wen Chen , Shi Jin

In disaster scenarios, establishing robust emergency communication networks is critical, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising solution to rapidly restore connectivity. However, organizing UAVs to form multi-hop networks in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yanggang Xu , Jirong Zha , Weijie Hong , Xiangmin Yi , Geng Chen , Jianfeng Zheng , Chen-Chun Hsia , Xinlei Chen

In the rapid evolution of the non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), satellite communication has emerged as a focal area of research due to its critical role in enabling seamless global connectivity. In this paper, we investigate two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 Zhuhang Li , Bodong Shang

In this paper, we provide a performance analysis for practical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled networks. By considering both line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions between aerial base stations (BSs) and ground…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Chang Liu , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Qingzhi Li , Zihuai Lin , Ying-Chang Liang

This work tackles the physical layer security (PLS) problem of maximizing the secrecy rate in heterogeneous UAV networks (HetUAVNs) under propulsion energy constraints. Unlike prior studies that assume uniform UAV capabilities or overlook…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lijie Zheng , Ji He , Shih Yu Chang , Yulong Shen , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been standing out due to the wide range of applications in which they can be used autonomously. However, they need intelligent systems capable of providing a greater understanding of what they perceive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Matheus G. Mateus , Ricardo B. Grando , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr

A high-rate yet low-cost air-to-ground (A2G) communication backbone is conceived for integrating the space and terrestrial network by harnessing the opportunistic assistance of the passenger planes or high altitude platforms (HAPs) as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Muralikrishnan Srinivasan , Sarath Gopi , Sheetal Kalyani , Xiaojing Huang , Lajos Hanzo

HAPS are emerging as key enablers in the evolution of 6G wireless networks, bridging terrestrial and non-terrestrial infrastructures. Operating in the stratosphere, HAPS can provide wide-area coverage, low-latency, energy-efficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 G. Svistunov , A. Akhtarshenas , D. López-Pérez , M. Giordani , G. Geraci , H. Yanikomeroglu

This paper investigates the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted resilience perspective in the 6G network energy saving (NES) scenario. More specifically, we consider multiple ground base stations (GBSs) and each GBS has three different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Dao Lan Vy Dinh , Anh Nguyen Thi Mai , Hung Tran , Giang Quynh Le Vu , Tu Dac Ho , Zhenni Pan , Vo Nhan Van , Symeon Chatzinotas , Dinh-Hieu Tran

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have found applications in diverse signal processing (SP) problems. Most efforts either directly adopt the DNN as a black-box approach to perform certain SP tasks without taking into account of any known…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Zhe Zhang , Xiang Chen , Zhi Tian

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enhance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-assisted communication by extending coverage, improving efficiency, and enabling adaptive beamforming. This paper investigates a multiple-input single-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mahmoud M. Salim , Khaled M. Rabie , Ali H. Muqaibel

Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance network coverage has proven a variety of benefits compared to terrestrial counterparts. One of the commonly used mathematical tools to model the locations of the UAVs is stochastic geometry…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Ruibo Wang , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini