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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as key enablers for low-altitude wireless network (LAWN), particularly when terrestrial networks are unavailable. In such scenarios, the environmental topology is typically unknown; hence,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Jihao Luo , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Le Zhao , Yuanhao Cui , Guangxu Zhu , Dusit Niyato

High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) have emerged as a promising enabler for next-generation wireless networks, offering ubiquitous connectivity to ground users. Operating either in standalone mode or in integration with terrestrial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Afsoon Alidadi Shamsabadi , Animesh Yadav , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a convenient choice for carrying mobile base stations to rapidly setup communication services for ground users. Unlike terrestrial networks, UAVs do not have fiber optic back-haul connectivity except when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Yuhui Wang , Junaid Farooq

In post-disaster scenarios, the rapid deployment of adequate communication infrastructure is essential to support disaster search, rescue, and recovery operations. To achieve this, uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) has emerged as a promising…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Jikang Deng , Hui Zhou , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mounted base stations (UAV-BSs) can provide wireless services in a variety of scenarios. In this letter, we propose an optimal placement algorithm for UAV-BSs that maximizes the number of covered users using the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Mohamed Alzenad , Amr El-Keyi , Faraj Lagum , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been significantly improved, and one of their most important applications is to provide temporary coverage for cellular users. Static Base Station cannot service all users due to temporary…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Mehdi Sookhak , Amir Hossein Mohajerzadeh

This paper presents an approach towards disaster management based on cognitive radio ad hoc network. Despite the growing interests on cognitive radio ad hoc networks, not much work has been reported on using them for disaster management.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Noman Islam , Ghazala Shafi Shaikh

Integrated space-air-ground networks promise to offer a valuable solution space for empowering the sixth generation of communication networks (6G), particularly in the context of connecting the unconnected and ultraconnecting the connected.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Hayssam Dahrouj , Shasha Liu , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Quick response to disasters is crucial for saving lives and reducing loss. This requires low-latency uploading of situation information to the remote command center. Since terrestrial infrastructures are often damaged in disaster areas,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yueshan Lin , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Ning Ge , Zhiyong Feng , Yue Gao

By fully exploiting the mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAV-based aerial base stations (BSs) can move closer to ground users to achieve better communication conditions. In this paper, we consider a scenario where an aerial BS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-24 Jingcong Sun , Christos Masouros

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations (BSs) can be a promising solution to provide connectivity and quality of service (QoS) guarantees during temporary events and after disasters. In this paper, we consider a scenario where UAV-BSs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Nadisanka Rupasinghe , Yavuz Yapici , Ismail Guvenc , Yuichi Kakishima

We are highly vulnerable to either natural or artificial catastrophes and therefore, Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) operators need reliable wireless communications for successful operations especially in critical rescue…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Julius Sechang Mboli

HAPS are emerging as key enablers in the evolution of 6G wireless networks, bridging terrestrial and non-terrestrial infrastructures. Operating in the stratosphere, HAPS can provide wide-area coverage, low-latency, energy-efficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 G. Svistunov , A. Akhtarshenas , D. López-Pérez , M. Giordani , G. Geraci , H. Yanikomeroglu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used for a wide range of applications. Due to characteristics such as the ability to hover and carry cargo on-board, rotary-wing UAVs have been considered suitable platforms for carrying communications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Pedro Ribeiro , André Coelho , Rui Campos

The connectivity of public-safety mobile users (MU) in the co-existence of a public-safety network (PSN), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and LTE-based railway networks (LRN) needs a thorough investigation. UAVs are deployed as mobile base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Ishtiaq Ahmad , Aftab Hussain

Terrestrial communication networks have experienced significant development in recent years by providing emerging services for ground users. However, one critical challenge raised is to provide full coverage (especially in dense high-rise…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Chau Yuen , Zhu Han

This paper designs and implements a high availability clusters and incorporated with load balance infrastructure of web servers. The paper described system can provide full facilities to the website hosting provider and large business…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 A B M Moniruzzaman , Md. Waliullah , Md. Sadekur Rahman

The use of unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) as airborne base stations has recently gained great attention. In this paper, we model a network of UAV-BSs as a Poisson point process (PPP) operating at a certain altitude above…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Mohamed Alzenad , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-to-Ground path loss model, which assumes that the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Bo Ji

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), a subclass of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), are expected to play a crucial role in the future of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). A key objective of VANETs is to enable efficient and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Pouya Firouzmakan , Suprakash Datta