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Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shaodan Ma , Bin Li , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles provide new opportunities for performance improvements in future wireless communications systems. For example, they can act as relays that extend the range of a communication link and improve the capacity. Unlike…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Samer Hanna , Enes Krijestorac , Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are poised to revolutionize communications. Utilizing their flexibility and fast deployment, we can deliver content in congested areas or provide services in areas without infrastructure. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Georgios S. Paschos , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper we study the deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to form a temporal UAV network for the provisioning of emergent communications to affected people in a disaster zone, where each UAV is equipped with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wenzheng Xu , Yueying Sun , Rui Zou , Weifa Liang , Qiufen Xia , Feng Shan , Tian Wang , Xiaohua Jia , Zheng Li

Fast and reliable wireless communication has become a critical demand in human life. In the case of mission-critical (MC) scenarios, for instance, when natural disasters strike, providing ubiquitous connectivity becomes challenging by using…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hongyi Zhang , Zhiqiang Qi , Jingya Li , Anders Aronsson , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant attention for improving wireless communication, especially in emergencies or as a complement to existing cellular infrastructure. This letter addresses the problem of efficiently…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Alexander Vavoulas , Konstantinos K. Delibasis , Harilaos G. Sandalidis , George Nousias , Nicholas Vaiopoulos

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their flexible mobility, on-demand deployment, and the ability to establish high probability line-of-sight wireless communication. As a result, UAVs have been extensively used as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Yunhao Quan , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Jinglong Shen , Longfei Ma , Zhisheng Yin

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is a promising solution for providing high-quality mobile services to ground users, where a UAV with limited service coverage travels among multiple geographical user locations (e.g., hotspots) for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kai Wang , Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Jun Tie

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly essential in various fields such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and telecommunications. This study aims to develop a learning algorithm for the path planning of UAV wireless communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Joseanne Viana , Boris Galkin , Lester Ho , Holger Claussen

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jonas Westheider , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

Route planning for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a series of translation and rotational steps from a given start location to the destination goal location. The goal of the route planning problem is to determine the most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Priyansh Saxena , Ram Kishan Dewangan

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm enabled edge computing is envisioned to be promising in the sixth generation wireless communication networks due to their wide application sensories and flexible deployment. However, most of the existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Wei Wu , Fuhui Zhou , Baoyun Wang , Qihui Wu , Chao Dong , Rose Qingyang Hu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are commonly used for missions in unknown environments, where an exact mathematical model of the environment may not be available. This paper provides a framework for using reinforcement learning to allow the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Huy X. Pham , Hung M. La , David Feil-Seifer , Luan V. Nguyen

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are considered as a promising technique for next-generation communication networks due to their flexibility, mobility, low cost, and the ability to collaboratively and autonomously provide services.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yahao Ding , Zhaohui Yang , Quoc-Viet Pham , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based aerial base stations (BSs) can provide rapid communication services to ground users and are thus promising for future communication systems. In this paper, we consider a scenario where no functional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-09 Jingcong Sun , Christos Masouros

This article presents a three-dimensional nonlinear trajectory tracking control strategy for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of spatial constraints. As opposed to many existing control strategies, which do not consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Saurabh Kumar , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Abhinav Sinha

This study proposes an approach for establishing an optimal multihop ad-hoc network using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to provide emergency communication in disaster areas. The approach includes two stages, one uses particle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ngan Duong Thi Thuy , Duy Nam Bui , Manh Duong Phung , Hung Pham Duy

In this paper, the efficient deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with directional antennas acting as wireless base stations that provide coverage for ground users is analyzed. First, the downlink coverage probability for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is rapidly increasing in applications ranging from surveillance and first-aid missions to industrial automation involving cooperation with other machines or humans. To maximize area coverage and…

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