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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be a key component of the next-generation wireless systems. Due to their deployment flexibility, UAVs are being considered as an efficient solution for collecting information data from ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Aidin Ferdowsi , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Walid Saad

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are integral to intelligent transportation systems, enabling vehicles to offload computational tasks to nearby roadside units (RSUs) and mobile edge computing (MEC) servers for real-time processing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Tariq Qayyum , Asadullah Tariq , Muhammad Ali , Mohamed Adel Serhani , Zouheir Trabelsi , Maite López-Sánchez

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) often collaborate by collecting and offloading sensing streams to an edge server, where a deep neural network (DNN) model performs cross-stream alignment, fusion, and inference. However, the coupling between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Yanan Du , Sai Xu , Yinbo Yu

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) plays an vital role in various applications such as delivery, military mission, disaster rescue, communication, etc., due to its flexibility and versatility. This paper proposes a deep reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Kaiwen Li , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang , Ling Wang

Distributed learning and inference algorithms have become indispensable for IoT systems, offering benefits such as workload alleviation, data privacy preservation, and reduced latency. This paper introduces an innovative approach that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Vukan Ninkovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Dragisa Miskovic

In this paper, we jointly design the power control and position dispatch for Multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication in device-to-device (D2D) networks. Our objective is to maximize the total transmission rate of downlink…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Pei Li , Lingyi Wang , Wei Wu , Fuhui Zhou , Baoyun Wang , Qihui Wu

In this paper, we propose reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) networks that can utilise both advantages of UAV's agility and RIS's reflection for enhancing the network's performance. To aim at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Saeed Khosravirad , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Long D. Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong

To circumvent persistent connectivity to the cloud infrastructure, the current emphasis on computing at network edge devices in the multi-robot domain is a promising enabler for delay-sensitive jobs, yet its adoption is rife with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Nazish Tahir , Ramviyas Parasuraman

This paper explores an emerging wireless Internet-of-things (IoT) architecture based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We consider a network where a fleet of UAVs at a fixed altitude flies on planned trajectories and IoT devices on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Chang-sik Choi , Francois Baccelli , Gustavo de Veciana

In this paper, the efficient deployment and mobility of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), used as aerial base stations to collect data from ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is investigated. In particular, to enable reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently utilized in multi-access edge computing (MEC) as edge servers. It is desirable to design UAVs' trajectories and user to UAV assignments to ensure satisfactory service to the users and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hamidreza Asadian-Rad , Hossein Soleimani , Shahrokh Farahmand

Edge sensing and computing is rapidly becoming part of intelligent infrastructure architecture leading to operational reliance on such systems in disaster or emergency situations. In such scenarios there is a high chance of power supply…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Talha Azfar , Kaicong Huang , Ruimin Ke

Terrestrial robots, i.e., unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), and aerial robots, i.e., unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), operate in separate spaces. To exploit their complementary features (e.g., fields of views, communication links, computing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Menghao Hu , Tong Zhang , Shuai Wang , Guoliang Li , Yingyang Chen , Qiang Li , Gaojie Chen

The vigorous developments of Internet of Things make it possible to extend its computing and storage capabilities to computing tasks in the aerial system with collaboration of cloud and edge, especially for artificial intelligence (AI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Xu Kang , Bin Song , Jie Guo , Zhijin Qin , F. Richard Yu

Devices operating in Internet of Things (IoT) networks may be deployed across vast geographical areas and interconnected via multi-hop communications. Further, they may be unguarded. This makes them vulnerable to attacks and motivates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yizhou Luo , Kwan-Wu Chin , Ruyi Guan , Xi Xiao , Caimeng Wang , Jingyin Feng , Tengjiao He

With the rapid development of connecting massive devices to the Internet, especially for remote areas without cellular network infrastructures, space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs) emerge and offload computation-intensive tasks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yali Chen , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Hongliang Zhang , Zhu Han

This paper proposes a new on-demand wireless energy transfer (WET) scheme of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Unlike the existing studies that simply pursuing the total or the minimum harvested energy maximization at the Internet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Ze Yu Zhao , Yueling Che , Sheng Luo , Kaishun Wu , Victor C. M. Leung

Today's robotic systems are increasingly turning to computationally expensive models such as deep neural networks (DNNs) for tasks like localization, perception, planning, and object detection. However, resource-constrained robots, like…

The Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN), crucial to the advancement of sixth-generation (6G) technology, plays a key role in ensuring universal connectivity, particularly by addressing the communication needs of remote areas lacking…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yulan Gao , Ziqiang Ye , Han Yu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are pivotal for future 6G non-terrestrial networks, yet their high mobility creates a complex coupled optimization problem for beamforming and trajectory design. Existing numerical methods suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Ruiqi Wang , Essra M. Ghoura , Omar Alhussein , Yuzhi Yang , Jing Ren , Shizhong Xu , Sami Muhaidat