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Effective communication for emergency vehicles - such as ambulances and fire trucks - is essential to support their operations in various traffic and environmental conditions. In this context, this paper investigates a vehicular…
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is strongly advocated for sixth-generation (6G) networks, as the 6G standard will not be limited to improving broadband services, but will also target the extension of the geographical cellular…
In intelligent low-altitude networks, integrating monitoring tasks into communication unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can consume resources and increase handoff latency for communication links. To address this challenge, we propose a…
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as an aerial base station is a promising technology to rapidly provide wireless connectivity to ground users. Given UAV's agility and mobility, a key question is how to adapt UAV deployment to best cater to the…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in the last few years owing to their ability to cover large areas and access difficult and hazardous target zones, which is not the case of traditional systems relying on direct…
This article explores the use of network-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications as a compelling solution to achieve high-rate information transmission and support ultra-reliable UAV remote command and control. We first…
When an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is utilized as an aerial small base station (BS), like a relay deployed far away from macro BSs, existing multicast methods based on acknowledgement (ACK) feedback and retransmissions may…
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) assisted by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been widely investigated as a promising system for future Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this context, delay-sensitive tasks of IoT devices may either be…
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is of crucial importance for diverse practical applications. However, it is susceptible to the severe spectrum scarcity problem and interference since it operates in the unlicensed spectrum band.…
We investigate the performance of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based networks in urban environments characterized by blockages, focusing on their capability to support the service demands of mobile users. The UAV-base stations (UAV-BSs)…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a key enabler for next-generation wireless networks due to their on-demand deployment, high mobility, and ability to provide Line-of-Sight (LoS) connectivity. These features make UAVs…
This paper studies the problem of spectrum shortage in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network during critical missions such as wildfire monitoring, search and rescue, and disaster monitoring. Such applications involve a high demand for…
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an important role in the low-altitude economy and have been used in various applications. However, with the increasing number of UAVs and explosive wireless data, the existing bit-oriented…
In this paper, we consider a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with an information collection and transmission mission for multiple ground targets. Specifically, the UAV is required to collect a fixed amount of information of…
In this paper, we consider a cellular controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sensing network in which multiple UAVs cooperatively complete each sensing task. We first propose a sense-and-send protocol where the UAVs collect sensory data…
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data collector for the ground sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network lifetime. Specifically, since the UAV can…
This paper presents a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture for vehicular networks. It is considered that the vehicles should complete latency critical computation intensive tasks either locally…
In this paper, we consider a single-cell multi-user orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) network with one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which works as an amplify-and-forward relay to improve the quality-of-service (QoS) of…
Due to the rapid development technologies for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), the supply and demand market for sUAS is expanding globally. With the great number of sUAS ready to fly in civilian airspace, an sUAS aircraft traffic…
This paper addresses the joint optimization of trajectories and bandwidth allocation for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance energy efficiency in the cooperative data collection problem. We focus on an important yet…