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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in the emerging low-altitude economy. However, they face significant challenges in achieving reliable network coverage during transit operations. This paper provides an in-depth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yajun Zhao , Mengnan Jian , Yifei Yuan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-to-Ground path loss model, which assumes that the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Bo Ji

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have drastically gained popularity in various Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) applications to improve the safety and efficiency of transportation systems. In this context, the combination of ground…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Manuel Patchou , Benjamin Sliwa , Christian Wietfeld

Path Loss (PL) is vital to evaluate the performance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as Aerial Base Stations (ABSs), particularly in urban environments with complex propagation due to various obstacles. Accurately modeling PL requires a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Abdul Saboor , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming largely ubiquitous with an increasing demand for aerial data. Accurate navigation and localization, required for precise data collection in many industrial applications, often relies on RTK GNSS.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yu Xianjia , Li Qingqing , Jorge Pena Queralta , Jukka Heikkonen , Tomi Westerlund

Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipments such as drones or flying taxis is a major challenge for tomorrow cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point transmission for providing seamless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Nicola Marchetti

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex networked environments, yet the joint optimization of multi-UAV motion control and connectivity remains a fundamental challenge. In this paper, we study a multi-UAV system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zijiang Yan , Hao Zhou , Wael Jaafar , Jianhua Pei , Ping Wang , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Hina Tabassum

Obstacle avoidance for small unmanned aircraft is vital for the safety of future urban air mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM). There are many techniques for real-time robust drone guidance, but many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jueming Hu , Xuxi Yang , Weichang Wang , Peng Wei , Lei Ying , Yongming Liu

Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become a reliable and efficient tool for road traffic monitoring. Compared to loop detectors and bluetooth receivers (with high capital and operational expenditure), drones are a low-cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Chrystalleni Christodoulou , Panayiotis Kolios

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for exploration-driven monitoring in hazardous environments such as disaster zones, contaminated sites, wildfire areas, and damaged infrastructure, where limited flight endurance must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jimin Choi , Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson , Max Z. Li

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as the potential aerial base stations (BSs) to improve terrestrial communications. However, the limited onboard energy and antenna power of a UAV restrict its communication range and transmission…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Geng Sun , Jian Xiao , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao

This paper studies how to achieve a high and flexible coverage performance of a large-scale cellular network that enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission to simultaneously serve…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Chun-Hung Liu , Md Asif Syed , Lu Wei

The malfunction or interruption of wireless coverage services has been shown to increase the mortality rate during natural disasters. Wireless coverage by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) provides network coverage to ground user devices…

Wireless networks consisting of low SWaP, FW-UAVs are used in many applications, such as monitoring, search and surveillance of inaccessible areas. A decentralized and autonomous approach ensures robustness to failures; the UAVs explore and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shivam Garg , Alexander Ihler , Elizabeth Serena Bentley , Sunil Kumar

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly in scenarios where conventional terrestrial networks are constrained or temporarily unavailable.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xiao Fan , Wenkun Wen , Peiran Wu , Junhui Zhao , Minghua Xia

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in assisting wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper considers a multi-UAV enabled wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Driven by the recent advancement in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, this paper proposes a new wireless network architecture of \emph{coordinate multipoint (CoMP) in the sky} to harness both the benefits of interference mitigation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

This work considers covert communications in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, aiming to hide a UAV for transmitting critical information out of a scenario that is monitored and where communication is not allowed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Jiande Sun , Jun Li , Feng Shu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) represent a new frontier in a wide range of monitoring and research applications. To fully leverage their potential, a key challenge is planning missions for efficient data acquisition in complex…

The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are efficient tools for diverse tasks such as electronic reconnaissance, agricultural operations and disaster relief. In the complex three-dimensional (3D) environments, the path planning with obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Junteng Mao , Ziye Jia , Hanzhi Gu , Chenyu Shi , Haomin Shi , Lijun He , Qihui Wu