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This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled wireless communication, where a rotarywing UAV is dispatched to send/collect data to/from multiple ground nodes (GNs). We aim to minimize the total UAV energy consumption, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Yong Zeng , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system, where a ground node (GN) communicate with a UAV assisted by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the presence of a jammer with imperfect location information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhi Ji , Xinrong Guan , Jia Tu , Qingqing Wu , Wendong Yang

Communication infrastructure is often severely disrupted in post-disaster areas, which interrupts communications and impedes rescue. Recently, the technology of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-equipped-UAV has been investigated as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yinong Chen , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

This paper proposes a novel approach to improve the performance of a heterogeneous network (HetNet) supported by dual connectivity (DC) by adopting multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as passive relays that carry reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Ata Khalili , Ehsan Mohammadi Monfard , Shayan Zargari , Mohammad Reza. Javan , Nader Mokari , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Smart radio environments aided by reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surfaces (RIS) have attracted much research attention recently. We propose a joint optimization strategy for beamforming, RIS phases, and power allocation to maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Athira Subhash , Abla Kammoun , Ahmed Elzanaty , Sheetal Kalyani , Yazan H. Al-Badarneh , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The integration of RIS into UAV networks presents a transformative solution for achieving energy-efficient and reliable communication, particularly within the rapidly expanding low-altitude economy (LAE). As UAVs facilitate diverse aerial…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Manzoor Ahmed , Aized Amin Soofi , Feroz Khan , Salman Raza , Wali Ullah Khan , Lina Su , Fang Xu , Zhu Han

In this paper, we propose reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) networks that can utilise both advantages of UAV's agility and RIS's reflection for enhancing the network's performance. To aim at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Saeed Khosravirad , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Long D. Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become a key role in wireless communication networks due to their flexibility and dynamic adaptability. However, the openness of UAV-based communications leads to security and privacy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Chong Huang , Gaojie Chen , Zhuoao Xu , Jing Zhu , Taisong Pan , Rahim Tafazolli , Wei Huang

In this letter, we investigate a UAV-enabled communication system, where a UAV is deployed to communicate with the ground node (GN) in the presence of multiple jammers. We aim to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) of the UAV by optimizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yang Wu , Weiwei Yang , Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu

In this letter, we propose an energy-efficient design for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) communication system with nonlinear energy harvesting (EH) and UAV jitter. A joint optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mahmoud M. Salim , Khaled M. Rabie , Ali H. Muqaibel

Future 6G non-terrestrial networks aim to deliver ubiquitous connectivity to remote and undeserved regions, but unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations face fundamental challenges such as limited numbers and power budgets. To overcome…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Arman Azizi , Mostafa Rahmani Ghourtani , Mustafa A. Kishk , Hamed Ahmadi , Arman Farhang

One technology that has the potential to improve wireless communications in years to come is integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). In this study, we take advantage of reconfigurable intelligent surface's (RIS) potential advantages to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Panpan Li , Yong Niu , Hao Wu , Zhu Han , Guiqi Sun , Ning Wang , Zhangdui Zhong , Bo Ai

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is introduced to assist an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system based on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for serving multiple ground users. We aim to minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Shaokang Hu , Chang Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In this letter, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist in the transmission from a ground node (GN) to the UAV in the presence of a jammer. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-17 Zhi Ji , Wendong Yang , Xinrong Guan , Xiao Zhao , Guoxin Li , Qingqing Wu

In this paper, we study the performance of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks over Nakagami-$m$ fading channels. For that purpose, we used accurate closed-form…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Khaled Alshehri , Anas M. Salhab , Ali Arshad Nasir

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled data collection system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist in the communication from a cluster of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to a UAV in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Zhi Ji , Jia Tu , Xinrong Guan , Wendong Yang , Weiwei Yang , Qingqing Wu

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation design for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication systems, where a UAV is dispatched to provide communications to multiple user nodes. Our objective is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ruide Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Lei Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan , Jianping An

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has becoming a useful tool in future wireless communication systems for close-distance communication network. This paper we use Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 RuiTianYi Lu

Wireless communication with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a promising technology for future communication systems. In this paper, we study energy-efficient UAV communication with a ground terminal via optimizing the UAV's trajectory, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless communication systems where a UAV supports uplink communications of multiple ground nodes (GNs) while flying over the area of the interest. In this system, the propulsion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Subin Eom , Hoon Lee , Junhee Park , Inkyu Lee