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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are seen as a promising technology to perform a wide range of tasks in wireless communication networks. In this work, we consider the deployment of a group of UAVs to collect the data generated by IoT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye , El Houcine Bergou , Hajar El Hammouti

Over the past few years, the use of swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in monitoring and remote area surveillance applications has become widespread thanks to the price reduction and the increased capabilities of drones. The drones…

In delay-sensitive industrial internet of things (IIoT) applications, the age of information (AoI) is employed to characterize the freshness of information. Meanwhile, the emerging network function virtualization provides flexibility and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Mohammad Akbari , Mohammad Reza Abedi , Roghayeh Joda , Mohsen Pourghasemian , Nader Mokari , Melike Erol-Kantarci

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianjiao Sun , Ningyan Guo , Haozhe Gu , Yanyan Peng , Zhiyong Feng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now beginning to be deployed for enhancing the network performance and coverage in wireless communication. However, due to the limitation of their on-board power and flight time, it is challenging to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Tan Do-Duy , Holger Claussen , and Lajos Hanzo

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) capabilities are envisioned to play a pivotal role in future wireless networks due to their enhanced flexibility and efficiency. However, jointly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Yu Bai , Yifan Zhang , Boxuan Xie , Zheng Chang , Yanru Zhang , Riku Jantti , Zhu Han

With the rapid development of low-altitude wireless networking, autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) have emerged as critical enablers for timely and reliable data delivery, particularly in remote or underserved areas. In this context, the age…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zifan Lang , Guixia Liu , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Victor C. M. Leung

Harvesting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices with multiple autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging problem requiring flexible path planning methods. We propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

In this paper, a novel joint energy and age of information (AoI) optimization framework for IoT devices in a non-stationary environment is presented. In particular, IoT devices that are distributed in the real-world are required to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zhenzhen Gong , Omar Hashash , Yingze Wang , Qimei Cui , Wei Ni , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to greatly aid Internet of Things (IoT) networks in mission-critical data collection, thanks to their flexibility and cost-effectiveness. However, challenges arise due to the UAV's limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Mengjie Yi , Xijun Wang , Juan Liu , Yan Zhang , Ronghui Hou

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms play an effective role in timely data collection from ground sensors in remote and hostile areas. Optimizing the collective behavior of swarms can improve data collection performance. This paper puts…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Yousef Emami , Hao Gao , Kai Li , Luis Almeida , Eduardo Tovar , Zhu Han

Internet of Things (IoT) involves sensors for monitoring and wireless networks for efficient communication. However, resource-constrained IoT devices and limitations in existing wireless technologies hinder its full potential. Integrating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Poorvi Joshi , Alakesh Kalita , Mohan Gurusamy

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled Internet of things (IoT) systems have become an important part of future wireless communications. To achieve higher communication rate, the joint design of UAV trajectory and resource allocation is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Yingchao Jiao , Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Yinyu Wu , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Xinping Guan

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection has been emerging as a prominent application due to its flexibility, mobility, and low operational cost. However, under the dynamic and uncertainty of IoT data collection and energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nam H. Chu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Van Huynh , Eryk Dutkiewicz

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

In this paper, the problem of minimizing the weighted sum of age of information (AoI) and total energy consumption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is studied. In the considered model, each IoT device monitors a physical process that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Changchuan Yin , Walid Saad , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

This study focuses on a multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MU-mMIMO) system by incorporating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a decode-and-forward (DF) relay between the base station (BS) and multiple Internet-of-Things…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 MohammadMahdi Ghadaksaz , Mobeen Mahmood , Tho Le-Ngoc

We investigate the benefits of integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements to passively relay information sampled by Internet of Things devices (IoTDs) to the base station (BS). In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Moataz Samir , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine , Ali Ghrayeb

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial relays are practically appealing for assisting Internet of Things (IoT) network. In this work, we aim to utilize the UAV swarm to assist the secure communication between the micro base station (MBS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Jiahui Li , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato , Victor C. M. Leung