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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an essential role in future wireless communication networks due to their high mobility, low cost, and on-demand deployment. In air-to-ground links, UAVs are widely used to enhance the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hongjiang Lei , Dongyang Meng , Haoxiang Ran , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Emergency communication is extremely important to aid rescue and search operation in the aftermath of any disaster. In such scenario, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks may be used to complement the damaged cellular networks over large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Sharvari N P , Dibakar Das , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proliferating as they are effective, flexible and cost-efficient devices for a variety of applications ranging from natural disaster recovery to delivery of goods. We investigate a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-30 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

We introduce a decentralized and online path planning technique for a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of weather disturbances. In our problem setting, the group of UAVs are required to collaboratively visit a set…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Wei Zhao , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to be widely deployed in future wireless communications, due to their advantages of high mobility and easy deployment. However, the broadcast nature of air-to-ground line-of-sight wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is rapidly increasing in applications ranging from surveillance and first-aid missions to industrial automation involving cooperation with other machines or humans. To maximize area coverage and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Carl Friess , Vlad Niculescu , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a critical component in next-generation wireless networks, particularly for disaster recovery scenarios, due to their flexibility, mobility, and rapid deployment capabilities. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Mazen Hasna , Saud Althunibat , Khalid Qaraqe

In the era of cutting-edge autonomous systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming an essential part of the solutions for numerous complex challenges. This paper evaluates UAV peer-to-peer telemetry communication, highlighting its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Pavlo Mykytyn , Marcin Brzozowski , Zoya Dyka , Peter Langendörfer

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have enormous potential in the public and civil domains. These are particularly useful in applications where human lives would otherwise be endangered. Multi-UAV systems can collaboratively complete missions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Lav Gupta , Raj Jain , Gabor Vaszkun

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is a promising technology for assisting Internet-of-Things (IoT), where a UAV can use its limited service coverage to harvest and disseminate data from IoT devices with low transmission abilities. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Lingjie Duan , Qingqing Wu

Networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), composed of hundreds, possibly thousands of highly mobile and wirelessly connected flying drones will play a vital role in future Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G networks. However, how to control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Lorenzo Bertizzolo , Salvatore D'oro , Ludovico Ferranti , Leonardo Bonati , Emrecan Demirors , Zhangyu Guan , Tommaso Melodia , Scott Pudlewski

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) poses unprecedented traffic coordination challenges, especially with increasing UAV densities in dense urban corridors. This paper introduces a mathematical model using a control algorithm to optimize an Edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Rishit Agnihotri , Sandeep Kumar Sharma

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication systems, where multiple multi-purpose UAV base stations are dispatched to provide secure communications to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Ruide Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Lei Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Jianping An

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling technologies for UAVs, wireless communication is essential and has drawn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-15 Yong Zeng , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Suitably equipped with cameras and sensors, uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be instrumental for wildfire prediction, tracking, and monitoring, provided that uninterrupted connectivity can be guaranteed even if some of the ground access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Carles Diaz-Vilor , Angel Lozano , Hamid Jafarkhani

The growing use of mobile robots in sectors such as automotive, agriculture, and rescue operations reflects progress in robotics and autonomy. In unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), most research emphasizes visual SLAM, sensor fusion, and path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Jingwen Wei

This paper tackles the problem of positioning a swarm of UAVs inside a completely unknown terrain, having as objective to maximize the overall situational awareness. The situational awareness is expressed by the number and quality of unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Dimitrios I. Koutras , Athanasios Ch. Kapoutsis , Elias B. Kosmatopoulos

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. To facilitate the large-scale usage of UAVs for various applications in practice, we provide a comprehensive survey on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Qingheng Song , Yong Zeng , Jie Xu , Shi Jin

Unmanned aerial vehicles provide new opportunities for performance improvements in future wireless communications systems. For example, they can act as relays that extend the range of a communication link and improve the capacity. Unlike…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Samer Hanna , Enes Krijestorac , Han Yan , Danijela Cabric

This article proposes Persistence Administered Collective Navigation (PACNav) as an approach for achieving decentralized collective navigation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms. The technique is based on the flocking and collective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Afzal Ahmad , Daniel Bonilla Licea , Giuseppe Silano , Tomas Baca , Martin Saska