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This paper studies a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) system, where a UAV-mounted mobile energy transmitter (ET) is dispatched to deliver wireless energy to a set of on-ground energy receivers (ERs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, a novel joint energy and age of information (AoI) optimization framework for IoT devices in a non-stationary environment is presented. In particular, IoT devices that are distributed in the real-world are required to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zhenzhen Gong , Omar Hashash , Yingze Wang , Qimei Cui , Wei Ni , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi

The ever-increasing demand for high-quality and heterogeneous wireless communication services has driven extensive research on dynamic optimization strategies in wireless networks. Among several possible approaches, multi-agent deep…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lorenzo Mario Amorosa , Marco Skocaj , Roberto Verdone , Deniz Gündüz

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…

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The stringent requirements of mobile edge computing (MEC) applications and functions fathom the high capacity and dense deployment of MEC hosts to the upcoming wireless networks. However, operating such high capacity MEC hosts can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Md. Shirajum Munir , Nguyen H. Tran , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

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) are now beginning to be deployed for enhancing the network performance and coverage in wireless communication. However, due to the limitation of their on-board power and flight time, it is challenging to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Tan Do-Duy , Holger Claussen , and Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we propose a novel design for the rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled full-duplex (FD) wireless-powered Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In this network, the UAV is equipped with an antenna array, and the $K$…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Leyla Fathollahi , Mahmood Mohassel Feghhi , Mahmoud Atashbar

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings connectivity to a massive number of devices that demand energy-efficient solutions to deal with limited battery capacities, uplink-dominant traffic, and channel impairments. In this work, we explore the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Osmel Martínez Rosabal , Onel Alcaraz López , Dian Echevarría Pérez , Mohammad Shehab , Henrique Hilleshein , Hirley Alves

Employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted growing interests and emerged as the state-of-the-art technology for data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this paper, with the objective of minimizing the total…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Jerome Henry

The low-altitude Internet of Things (IoT), supported by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), provides ground sensing networks with advanced real-time monitoring and data collection. To maximize data collection volume from distributed IoT nodes,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhenjia Xu , Xiaoling Zhang , Nan Qi , Guangxu Zhu , Xiaojie Li , Luliang Jia

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

This paper investigates a wireless-powered Internet of Things (IoT) network comprising a hybrid access point (HAP) and two devices. The HAP facilitates downlink wireless energy transfer (WET) for device charging and uplink wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yunfeng Chen , Yong Liu , Jinhao Xiao , Qunying Wu , Han Zhang , Fen Hou

This paper studies a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) system, where a UAV-mounted energy transmitter (ET) broadcasts wireless energy to charge distributed energy receivers (ERs) on the ground. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel energy-efficient data collection and wireless power transfer (WPT) framework for internet of things (IoT) applications, via a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) unmanned aerial vehicle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Jiancao Hou , Zhaohui Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) has recently emerged as a promising technique to provide sustainable energy supply for widely distributed low-power ground devices (GDs) in large-scale wireless networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lifeng Xie , Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving as aerial base stations can be deployed to provide wireless connectivity to mobile users, such as vehicles. However, the density of vehicles on roads often varies spatially and temporally primarily…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Babatunji Omoniwa , Boris Galkin , Ivana Dusparic

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

Flexible and efficient wireless resource sharing across heterogeneous services is a key objective for future wireless networks. In this context, we investigate the performance of a system where latency-constrained internet-of-things (IoT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Anup Mishra , Čedomir Stefanović , Xiuqiang Xu , Petar Popovski , Israel Leyva-Mayorga

Deploying teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to harvest data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices requires efficient trajectory planning and coordination algorithms. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has emerged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jichao Chen , Omid Esrafilian , Harald Bayerlein , David Gesbert , Marco Caccamo