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Distributed optimization offers a promising paradigm for trajectory planning in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms, yet its deployment in communication-constrained environments remains challenging due to unreliable links and limited data…

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Angle of arrival (AOA) is widely used to locate a wireless signal emitter in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization. Compared with received signal strength (RSS) and time of arrival (TOA), it has higher accuracy and is not sensitive to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Baihua Shi , Yifan Li , Guilu Wu , Shihao Yan , Feng Shu

Mobile base stations on board unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promise to deliver connectivity to those areas where the terrestrial infrastructure is overloaded, damaged, or absent. A fundamental problem in this context involves determining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Daniel Romero , Pham Q. Viet , Geert Leus

This paper investigates the distributed stochastic nonconvex and nonsmooth composite optimization problem. Existing stochastic typically rely on uniform step size strictly bounded by global network parameters, such as the maximum node…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Yangming Zhang , Yongyang Xiong , Jinming Xu , Keyou You , Yang Shi

In this paper, we devise a sparse array design algorithm for adaptive beamforming. Our strategy is based on finding a sparse beamformer weight to maximize the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). The proposed method…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Huiping Huang , Hing Cheung So , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

We consider multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving a density of ground terminals (GTs) as base stations. The objective is to minimize the outage probability of GT-to-UAV transmissions. Optimal placement of UAVs under different UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Maryam Shabanighazikelayeh , Erdem Koyuncu

In this paper, we study the joint 3D placement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAVs-users association under bandwidth limitation and quality of service constraint. In particular, in order to allow to UAVs to dynamically improve their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-30 Hajar El Hammouti , Mustapha Benjillali , Basem Shihada , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Aiming at solving large-scale learning problems, this paper studies distributed optimization methods based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). By formulating the learning problem as a consensus problem, the ADMM can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tsung-Hui Chang , Mingyi Hong , Wei-Cheng Liao , Xiangfeng Wang

Big data, including applications with high security requirements, are often collected and stored on multiple heterogeneous devices, such as mobile devices, drones and vehicles. Due to the limitations of communication costs and security…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Hao Chen , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund , H. Vincent Poor

With the increasing use of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), it is critical to ensure that they are continuously tracked and controlled, especially when UAVs operate beyond the communication range of ground stations (GSs).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Yian Zhu , Ziye Jia , Qihui Wu , Chao Dong , Zirui Zhuang , Huiling Hu , Qi Cai

This letter introduces a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) structure into near-field localization systems to enhance the design flexibility of IRS, thereby obtaining additional performance gains.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Hanfu Zhang , Yidan Mei , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently attracted a lot of attention as a candidate to meet the 6G ubiquitous connectivity demand and boost the resiliency of terrestrial networks. Thanks to the high spectral efficiency and low latency,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Ahmed Benfaid , Nadia Adem , Bassem Khalfi

The localization of directional RF emitters presents significant challenges for electronic warfare applications. Traditional localization methods, designed for omnidirectional emitters, experience degraded performance when applied to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Fraser Williams , Akila Pemasiri , Dhammika Jayalath , Terry Martin , Clinton Fookes

It is expected that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will play a vital role in future communication systems. Optimum positioning of UAVs, serving as base stations, can be done through extensive field measurements or ray tracing simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ibrahim Shoer , Bahadir K. Gunturk , Hasan F. Ates , Tuncer Baykas

This work proposes a framework for the robust design of UAV-assisted wireless networks that combine 3D trajectory optimization with user mobility prediction to address dynamic resource allocation challenges. We proposed a sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Asad Mahmood , Thang X. Vu , Wali Ullah Khan , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Due to the high mobility and easy deployment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted much attention in the field of wireless communication and positioning. To meet the challenges of lack of infrastructure coverage, uncertain sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Mingyue Zhu , Zhiqing Wei , Chen Qiu , Wangjun Jiang , Huici Wu , Zhiying Feng

This paper studies the optimal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) placement problem for wireless networking. The UAV operates as a flying wireless relay to provide coverage extension for a base station (BS) and deliver capacity boost to a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Junting Chen , David Gesbert

This paper addresses the problem of distributed event localization using noisy range measurements with respect to sensors with known positions. Event localization is fundamental in many wireless sensor network applications such as homeland…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Chunlei Zhang , Yongqiang Wang

Next-generation wireless networks will deploy UAVs dynamically as aerial base stations (UAV-BSs) to boost the wireless network coverage in the out of reach areas. To provide an efficient service in stochastic environments, the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Shavbo Salehi , Jahan Hassan , Ayub Bokani

Location information is a fundamental requirement for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, accurately and efficiently localizing sensor nodes with diverse functionalities remains a significant…

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