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The rollout of the fifth-generation (5G) networks has raised some concerns about potential health effects from increased exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF). To address these concerns, we design a novel EMF-aware architecture for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Mariem Chemingui , Ahmed Elzanaty , Rahim Tafazolli

Energy efficiency (EE) is one of the most important metrics for envisioned 6G networks, and sleep control, as a cost-efficient approach, can significantly lower power consumption by switching off network devices selectively. Meanwhile, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Hao Zhou , Medhat Elsayed , Majid Bavand , Raimundas Gaigalas , Steve Furr , Melike Erol-Kantarci

The empowering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively used in providing intelligence such as target tracking. In our field experiments, a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) is deployed at the UAV to identify a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Chau Yuen , Lijun Qian

This paper proposes a solution for energy-efficient communication in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. The limited battery life of UAVs is a major concern for their sustainable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi , Mohammed S Al-Abiad , Shahrokh Valaee

In this paper, we develop a unified dynamic intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) beamforming framework to boost the sum computation rate of an IRS-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where each device follows a binary offloading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu

In this paper, we consider that the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with attached intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) play the role of flying reflectors that reflect the signal of users to the destination, and utilize the power-domain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Hussein M. Hariz , Saeed Sheikhzadeh , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan , B. Abbasi-Arand , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Edge computing facilitates low-latency services at the network's edge by distributing computation, communication, and storage resources within the geographic proximity of mobile and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The recent advancement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Xiaoyu Xia , Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah , Muhammad Ali Babar

This paper presents a new deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based approach to the trajectory planning and jamming rejection of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Jamming can prevent timely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Shuyan Hu , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Abbas Jamalipour

Devices operating in Internet of Things (IoT) networks may be deployed across vast geographical areas and interconnected via multi-hop communications. Further, they may be unguarded. This makes them vulnerable to attacks and motivates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yizhou Luo , Kwan-Wu Chin , Ruyi Guan , Xi Xiao , Caimeng Wang , Jingyin Feng , Tengjiao He

Recent research and development interests deal with metasurfaces for wireless systems beyond their consideration as intelligent tunable reflectors. Among the latest proposals is the simultaneously transmitting (a.k.a. refracting) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Jiguang He , Aymen Fakhreddine , George C. Alexandropoulos

It is widely accepted that integrating intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones can assist wireless networks in improving network coverage and end user Quality of Service (QoS). However, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Xinyuan Wu , Vasilis Friderikos

THz band communication technology will be used in the 6G networks to enable high-speed and high-capacity data service demands. However, THz-communication losses arise owing to limitations, i.e., molecular absorption, rain attenuation, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yu Min Park , Sheikh Salman Hassan , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

In this paper, we consider deploying multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance the computation service of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) through collaborative computation among UAVs. In particular, the tasks of different types and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Bin Li , Rongrong Yang , Lei Liu , Celimuge Wu

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided integrated sensing, computing, and communication (ISCC) Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) framework is proposed. Specifically, the full-duplex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Haochen Li , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Pan Zhiwen

The performance of over-the-air computation (AirComp) systems degrades due to the hostile channel conditions of wireless devices (WDs), which can be significantly improved by the employment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Xiongfei Zhai , Guojun Han , Yunlong Cai , Yuanwei Liu , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a newly-emerged technology that might fundamentally change how wireless networks are operated. Though extensively studied in recent years, the practical limitations of RIS are often neglected when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Parisa Ramezani , Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson

Computation off-loading in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems constitutes an efficient paradigm of supporting resource-intensive applications on mobile devices. However, the benefit of MEC cannot be fully exploited, when the communications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Tong Bai , Cunhua Pan , Yansha Deng , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

With the rapid development of the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), mobile edge computing (MEC) becomes an essential technology underpinning AIoT applications. However, multi-angle resource constraints, multi-user task competition,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Weixi Li , Rongzuo Guo , Yuning Wang , Fangying Chen

As 6G networks must support diverse applications with heterogeneous quality-of-service requirements, efficient allocation of limited network resources becomes important. This paper addresses the critical challenge of user admission control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ye Zhang , Baiyun Xiao , Jyoti Sahni , Alvin Valera , Wuyungerile Li , Winston K. G. Seah

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for future wireless communication systems. However, the conventional RIS can only reflect the incident signal. Hence, it provides a limited coverage, as compared to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Sadaf Syed , Wolfgang Utschick , Michael Joham