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Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) capable of reconfiguring their electromagnetic absorption and reflection properties in real-time are offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance wireless communication experience in challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Dong Ma , Ming Ding , Mahbub Hassan

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Search and rescue operations (SAR) to navigate challenging terrain while maintaining reliable communication with the cellular network is a promising approach. This paper suggests a novel technique…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks are not operational due to natural disasters. They can also be used to supplement the ground base station in order to provide better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Issa Khalil

This paper investigates an interference-aware joint path planning and power allocation mechanism for a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a sparse suburban environment. The UAV's goal is to fly from an initial point and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Alireza Shamsoshoara , Fatemeh Lotfi , Sajad Mousavi , Fatemeh Afghah , Ismail Guvenc

This work presents a new spiking neural network (SNN)-based approach for user equipment-base station (UE-BS) association in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs). With the introduction of UAV's in wireless networks, the system architecture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Vasileios Kouvakis , Stylianos E. Trevlakis , Ioannis Arapakis , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks have grown rapidly in recent years and become attractive for various emergence communications scenarios. In this paper, we consider a UAV acting as a relay node to assist wireless transmissions from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Hui Tu , Jia Zhu , Yulong Zou

It is widely acknowledged that the development of traditional terrestrial communication technologies cannot provide all users with fair and high quality services due to the scarce network resource and limited coverage areas. To complement…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Nei Kato , Zubair Md. Fadlullah , Fengxiao Tang , Bomin Mao , Shigenori Tani , Atsushi Okamura , Jiajia Liu

Wireless cellular networks have many parameters that are normally tuned upon deployment and re-tuned as the network changes. Many operational parameters affect reference signal received power (RSRP), reference signal received quality…

Aerial-ground interference mitigation is a challenging issue in the cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. Due to the strong line-of-sight (LoS) air-to-ground (A2G) channels, the UAV may impose/suffer more severe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs) is envisaged as a key enabler for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond-5G networks. Specifically, aerial base stations (UAV-BS) are expected to provide ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Wael Jaafar , Shimaa Naser , Sami Muhaidat , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this paper, the problem of proactive deployment of cache-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for optimizing the quality-of-experience (QoE) of wireless devices in a cloud radio access network (CRAN) is studied. In the considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Mingzhe Chen , Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Changchuan Yin , Mérouane Debbah , Choong-Seon Hong

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mounted base stations (UAV-BSs) can provide wireless services in a variety of scenarios. In this letter, we propose an optimal placement algorithm for UAV-BSs that maximizes the number of covered users using the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Mohamed Alzenad , Amr El-Keyi , Faraj Lagum , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In fifth generation (5G) and beyond Internet of Things (IoT), it becomes increasingly important to serve a massive number of IoT devices outside the coverage of terrestrial cellular networks. Due to their own limitations, unmanned aerial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-18 Chengxiao Liu , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Ning Ge

This paper presents a simulation based study of Artificial Intelligence assisted communication channel adaptation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle enabled cellular networks. The considered system model includes communication channel Ground Base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Andrii Grekhov , Volodymyr Kharchenko , Vasyl Kondratiuk

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) enable smart wireless environments by dynamically controlling signal propagation to enhance communication and localization. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can act as flying base stations and thus,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Anupam Mondal , Priyadarshi Mukherjee , Sasthi C. Ghosh

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer dynamic trajectory control, enabling them to avoid obstacles and establish line-of-sight (LoS) wireless channels with ground nodes (GNs), unlike traditional ground-fixed base stations. This study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Gitae Park , Kanghyun Heo , Kisong Lee

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 downlink scenarios from an aerial base station to ground users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

This paper considers base station (BS) cooperation in the form of coordinated beamforming, focusing on min-max fairness in the power usage subject to target SINR constraints. We show that the optimal beamforming strategies have an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Randa Zakhour , Stephen V. Hanly

In this paper, we study the problem of joint active and passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted massive multiple-input multiple-output systems towards the extension of the wireless cellular coverage in 3D,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yu Tian , Ahmed Alhammadi , Jiguang He , Aymen Fakhreddine , Faouzi Bader

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of ground nodes (GNs) via distributed beamforming. We consider two scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu