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A novel location-aware beamforming scheme for millimeter wave communication is proposed for line of sight (LOS) and low mobility scenarios, in which computer vision is introduced to derive the required position or spatial angular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Tianqi Xiang , Yaxin Wang , Huiwen Li , Boren Guo , Xin Zhang

Providing connectivity to aerial users, such as cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or flying taxis, is a key challenge for tomorrow's cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-28 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Hesham ElSawy , Majid Butt , Nicola Marchetti

In complex urban environments, dynamic obstacles and multipath effects lead to significant link attenuation and pervasive coverage blind spots. Conventional approaches based on large-scale fixed antenna arrays and UAV trajectory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kan Yu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

Advanced Aerial Mobility (AAM) operations require strategic flight planning services that predict both spatial and temporal uncertainties to safely validate flight plans against hazards such as weather cells, restricted airspaces, and CNS…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Balram Kandoria , Aryaman Singh Samyal

Channel knowledge map (CKM) inference across base stations (BSs) is the key to achieving efficient environmentaware communications. This paper proposes an environmentaware cross-BS CKM inference method called BS-1-to-N based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Zhuoyin Dai , Di Wu , Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Xinyi Wang , Zesong Fei

This paper considers the problem of ground user localization based on received signal strength (RSS) measurements obtained by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We treat UAV-user link channel model parameters and antenna radiation pattern of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Omid Esrafilian , Rajeev Gangula , David Gesbert

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can offer timely and cost-effective delivery of high-quality sensing data. How- ever, deciding when and where to take measurements in complex environments remains an open challenge. To address this issue, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Marija Popovic , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Gregory Hitz , Inkyu Sa , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

Sensing-assisted predictive beamforming, as one of the enabling technologies for emerging integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) paradigm, shows significant promise for enhancing various future unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Yifan Jiang , Qingqing Wu , Hongxun Hui , Wen Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This letter investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where multiple UAVs simultaneously sense the locations of ground users and provide communication services with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Haoyun Li , Ming Xiao , Kezhi Wang , Dong In Kim , Merouane Debbah

Radio maps (RMs), which provide location-based pathloss estimations, are fundamental to enabling proactive, environment-aware communication in 6G networks. However, existing deep learning-based methods for RM construction often model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Honggang Jia , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang

Fifth Generation (5G) cellular networks are expected to provide cellular connectivity for vehicular users, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). When flying in the air, these users experience strong, unobstructed channel conditions to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Boris Galkin , Ramy Amer , Erika Fonseca , Luiz A. DaSilva

The past few years have witnessed a tremendous increase on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civilian applications, which call for high-performance communication between UAVs and their ground clients, especially when they are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

Traditional localization algorithms based on features such as time difference of arrival are impaired by non-line of sight propagation, which negatively affects the consistency that they expect among distance estimates. Instead,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Pham Q. Viet , Daniel Romero

This letter studies the sensing-assisted channel prediction for a multi-antenna orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system operating in realistic and complex wireless environments. In this system,an integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Junjie He , Zixiang Ren , Jianping Yao , Han Hu , Tony Xiao Han , Jie Xu

The demand for future wireless communication systems is being satisfied for various circumstances through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which act as flying base stations (BSs). In this letter, we propose an ellipse clustering algorithm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Si-Chan Noh , Hong-Bae Jeon , Chan-Byoung Chae

Localization is one of the most important technologies needed to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in actual fields. Currently, most UAVs use GNSS to estimate their position. Recently, there have been attacks that target the weaknesses of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Junho Choi , Hyun Myung

The trend for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is growing with prospective air taxis, parcel deliverers, and medical and industrial services. Safe and efficient UAM operation relies on timely communication and reliable data exchange. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Timo Häckel , Luca von Roenn , Nemo Juchmann , Alexander Fay , Rinie Akkermans , Tim Tiedemann , Thomas C. Schmidt

DL based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection has tremendous advantages in numerous areas. However, it still faces some problems, such as the lack of prior knowledge, which seriously affects detection accuracy. In order to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Han Ke , Xiao Ke , Ye Yan , Rui Liu , Jinpeng Yang , Tianwen Zhang , Xu Zhan , Xiaowo Xu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly useful for tasks which require the acquisition of data over large areas. The coverage problem, i.e., the problem of periodically visiting all subregions of an area at a desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Floriana Benedetti , Alessio Capitanelli , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Gianni Vercelli

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are powerful Internet-of-Things components to provide sensing and communications in the air due to their advantages in mobility and flexibility. As aerial users, UAVs are envisioned to support various sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor