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In this work, we develop a measurement platform to capture mobile network performance metrics including coverage and quality of service in regions where conventional coverage testing approaches are frequently time-intensive,…
The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with radar imaging sensors has revolutionized the monitoring of dynamic and local Earth surface processes by enabling high-resolution and cost-effective remote sensing. This paper…
This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) to leverage the benefits of this technology for future communication networks, such as 6G. Key advantages include enhanced spectral and…
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…
In this paper, we focus on energy-efficient UAV-based IoT data collection in sensor networks in which the sensed data have different time deadlines. In the investigated setting, the sensors are clustered and managed by cluster heads (CHs),…
This paper investigates energy efficiency maximization in an integrated sensing and communication framework for satellite-UAV MIMO systems, where a LEO satellite and a UAV simultaneously serve ground users and perform target sensing. Both…
In this paper, we study the problem of gathering data from large-scale wireless sensor networks using multiple unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to gather data at designated rendezvouses, where the goal is to maximize the network lifetime.…
Multirotor UAVs are used for a wide spectrum of civilian and public domain applications. Navigation controllers endowed with different attributes and onboard sensor suites enable multirotor autonomous or semi-autonomous, safe flight,…
We consider UAV IoT aerial sensing that delivers multiple VR/AR immersive communication sessions to remote users. The UAV swarm is spatially distributed over a wide area of interest, and each UAV captures a viewpoint of the scene below it.…
Mobile agent networks, such as multi-UAV systems, are constrained by limited resources. In particular, limited energy affects system performance directly, such as system lifetime. It has been demonstrated in the wireless sensor network…
Localizing radio frequency (RF) sources with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has many important applications. As a result, UAV-based localization has been the focus of much research. However, previous approaches rely heavily on custom…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are transforming infrastructure inspections in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management (AEC+FM) domain. By synthesizing insights from over 150 studies, this review paper…
This work investigates a collaborative sensing and data collection system in which multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) sense an area of interest and transmit images to a cloud server (CS) for processing. To accelerate the completion of…
Over the past decade, the utilization of UAVs has witnessed significant growth, owing to their agility, rapid deployment, and maneuverability. In particular, the use of UAV-mounted 360-degree cameras to capture omnidirectional videos has…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a crucial role in meteorological research, particularly in environmental wind field measurements. However, several challenges exist in current wind measurement methods using UAVs that need to be…
This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of ground nodes (GNs) via distributed beamforming. We consider two scenarios…
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication is a promising technology to extend coverage and enhance throughput for traditional terrestrial wireless communication systems. In this paper, we consider a UAV-enabled wireless sensor…
This paper introduces MILUV, a Multi-UAV Indoor Localization dataset with UWB and Vision measurements. This dataset comprises 217 minutes of flight time over 36 experiments using three quadcopters, collecting ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging…
This work presents a number of techniques to improve the ability to create magnetic field maps on a UAV which can be used to quickly and reliably gather magnetic field observations at multiple altitudes in a workspace. Unfortunately, the…
Leveraging unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is convenient to collect data from ground sensor. However, in the presence of unknown urban environment, the data collection is subject to the blockage of urban buildings. In this paper, considering…