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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 , Ayoub Alsarhan , Issa Khalil , Ahmad Sawalmeh , Noor Shamsiah Othman

These days, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems have drawn a lot of attention due to the increasing demand for faster data rates. Given the susceptibility of mmWave signals to obstacles and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Subhadip Ghosh , Priyadarshi Mukherjee , Sasthi C. Ghosh

Path Planning methods for autonomously controlling swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining momentum due to their operational advantages. An increasing number of scenarios now require autonomous control of multiple UAVs, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Daniel Rivero

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communication is a revolutionary technology that has been recently presented as a potential candidate for beyond fifth-generation millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Although mmWaves can offer a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Sk Abid Hasan , Lakshmikanta Sau , Sasthi C. Ghosh

This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided wireless communication systems where a UAV supports uplink communications of multiple ground nodes (GNs) while flying over the area of the interest. In this system, the propulsion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Subin Eom , Hoon Lee , Junhee Park , Inkyu Lee

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 downlink scenarios from an aerial base station to ground users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising solution for enhancing wireless connectivity and Quality of Service (QoS) in urban environments, acting as aerial Wi-Fi access points or cellular base stations. Their flexibility and rapid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kamran Shafafi , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos

This paper studies the improvement of the achievable end-to-end data rate of ground users assisted with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and tethered balloons (TBs). The goal is to maximize the end-to-end throughput of a network suffering…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ala Alzidaneen , Ahmad Alsharoa , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The performance optimization of UAV communication systems requires the joint design of UAV trajectory and communication efficiently. To tackle the challenge of infinite design variables arising from the continuous-time UAV trajectory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Yijun Guo , Changsheng You , Changchuan Yin , Rui Zhang

Communication-aware trajectory generation for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in urban environments requires simultaneous consideration of vehicle dynamics, wireless communication quality, obstacle avoidance, and onboard energy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Prateek Priyaranjan Pradhan , Ketan Rajawat , Mangal Kothari

In different situations, like disaster communication and network connectivity for rural locations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could indeed be utilized as airborne base stations to improve both the functionality and coverage of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shahid Rasool , Irfan Ullah , Abid Ali , Ishtiaq Ahmad

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

This paper explores the effects of three-dimensional (3D) antenna radiation pattern and backhaul constraint on optimal 3D path planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in interference prevalent downlink cellular networks. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Sung Joon Maeng , Eyuphan Bulut , Ismail Guvenc

As an alternative solution for quick disaster recovery of backhaul/fronthaul links, in this paper, a dynamic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-assisted heterogeneous (HetNet) network equipped with directional terahertz (THz) antennas is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Mazen Hasna

In this paper, we propose a framework design for wireless sensor networks based on multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Specifically, we aim to minimize deployment and operational costs, with respect to budget and power constraints. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-05 Safwan Alfattani , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Abbas Yongacoglu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have emerged as a practical solution that provides on-demand services to users in areas where the terrestrial network is non-existent or temporarily unavailable, e.g., due to natural disasters or network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Asad Mahmood , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Due to Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) limitations in processing power and battery lifetime. The tethered UAV (TUAV) offers an attractive approach to answer these shortcomings. Since a tethered connected to UAV is one potential energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Abdu Saif , Kaharudin Dimyati , Kamarul Ariffin Noordin , Nor Shahida MohdShah , S. H. Alsamhi , Qazwan Abdullah

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is a promising solution for providing high-quality mobile services to ground users, where a UAV with limited service coverage travels among multiple geographical user locations (e.g., hotspots) for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kai Wang , Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Jun Tie

Efficient trajectory generation in complex dynamic environments remains an open problem in the unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The perception of the USV is usually interfered with by the swing of the hull and the ambient weather, making it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tao Huang , Zhe Chen , Wang Gao , Zhenfeng Xue , Yong Liu

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is recently getting significant attention due to a variety of practical use cases, such as surveillance, data gathering, and commodity delivery. Since UAVs are powered by batteries, energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan