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Many use cases of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) require beyond visual line-of-sight (LOS) communications. Mobile networks offer wide area, high speed, and secure wireless connectivity, which can enhance control and safety of UAV…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) acting as access points in cellular networks require wireless backhauls to the core network. In this paper we employ stochastic geometry to carry out an analysis of the UAV backhaul performance that can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Boris Galkin , Jacek Kibiłda , Luiz A. DaSilva

Wireless communication systems that include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promise to provide cost-effective wireless connectivity for devices without infrastructure coverage. Compared to terrestrial communications or those based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang , Teng Joon Lim

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

In this article, we introduce a novel low-altitude wireless network (LAWN), which is a reconfigurable, three-dimensional (3D) layered architecture. In particular, the LAWN integrates connectivity, sensing, control, and computing across…

Multi-way and device-to-device (D2D) communications are currently considered for the design of future communication systems. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be effectively deployed to extend the communication range of D2D networks. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Jaber Kakar , Anas Chaaban , Vuk Marojevic , Aydin Sezgin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer promising potential as communications node carriers, providing on-demand wireless connectivity to users. While existing literature presents various wireless channel models, it often overlooks the impact…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Kamran Shafafi , Eduardo Nuno Almeida , André Coelho , Helder Fontes , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos

The rapid advancement of Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs), particularly Long Range (LoRa) systems, has positioned them as a cornerstone for Next-Generation Internet of Things (NG-IoT) applications within 5G/6G ecosystems. Despite their…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Abdullahi Isa Ahmed , Jamal Bentahar , El Mehdi Amhoud

Long Range Wide Area Networks (LoRaWAN) is an open medium access control (MAC) layer technology devised for the long range connectivity of massive number of low power network devices. This work gives an overview of the key aspects of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Furqan Hameed Khan , Marius Portmann

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based wireless mesh networks can economically provide wireless services for the areas with disasters. However, the capacity of air-to-air communications is limited due to the multi-hop transmissions. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhiqing Wei , Zijun Guo , Zhiyong Feng , Jialin Zhu , Caijun Zhong , Qihui Wu , Huici Wu

In this paper, the efficient deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with directional antennas acting as wireless base stations that provide coverage for ground users is analyzed. First, the downlink coverage probability for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is becoming increasingly used in a variety of applications such as video surveillance and deliveries. To enable safe and efficient use of UAVs, the devices will need to be connected into cellular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Boris Galkin , Erika Fonseca , Gavin Lee , Conor Duff , Marvin Kelly , Edward Emmanuel , Ivana Dusparic

In the past decade, we have witnessed explosive growth in the number of low-power embedded and Internet-connected devices, reinforcing the new paradigm, Internet of Things (IoT). The low power wide area network (LPWAN), due to its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Dhaval Patel , Myounggyu Won

One of the key enablers for the realization of a variety of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based systems is the high-performance communication system linking many UAVs and ground station. We have proposed a spectrum-efficient full-duplex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Tao Yu , Kento Kajiwara , Kiyomichi Araki , Kei Sakaguchi

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, where billions of devices and sensors are becoming more and more connected and ubiquitous, is putting a strain on traditional terrestrial networks, that may no longer be able to fulfill…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Dengke Wang , Alessandro Traspadini , Marco Giordani , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Michele Zorzi

In emergency scenarios, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed to assist localization and communication services for ground terminals. In this paper, we propose a new integrated air-ground networking paradigm that uses…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Zheyuan Yang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

This work proposes an empirical air to ground (A2G) propagation model specifically designed for cellular connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). An in depth aerial drive test was carried out within an operating Long Term Evolution (LTE)…

Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) offer significant social and economic benefits by enabling the monitoring of subterranean entities. However, the communication reliability of WUSNs diminishes in harsh environments where…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Kaiqiang Lin , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper presents an autonomous sensing framework for identifying and localizing multiple users in Fifth Generation (5G) cooperative networks using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that is not part of the serving access network. Unlike…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Niccolò Paglierani , Francesco Linsalata , Vineeth Teeda , Davide Scazzoli , Maurizio Magarini

In this paper, a software-based simulator for the deployment of base station-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a cellular network is proposed. To this end, the Google Earth Engine platform and its included image processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Aaron French , Mohammad Mozaffari , Abdelrahman Eldosouky , Walid Saad