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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) reduces the computational burden on terminal devices by shortening the distance between these devices and computing nodes. Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with enhanced MEC networks can leverage the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhiying Wang , Tianxi Wei , Gang Sun , Xinyue Liu , Hongfang Yu , Dusit Niyato

In this letter, we study the energy efficiency (EE) optimisation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) providing wireless coverage to static and mobile ground users. Recent multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches optimise the system's EE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Babatunji Omoniwa , Boris Galkin , Ivana Dusparic

Communication is one of the core components for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). The communication bandwidth, in many real applications, is always subject to certain constraints. To improve communication efficiency, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Qi Tian , Kun Kuang , Baoxiang Wang , Furui Liu , Fei Wu

Due to the significant variations in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) altitude and horizontal mobility, it becomes difficult for any single network to ensure continuous and reliable threedimensional coverage. Towards that end, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Jiayang Wan , Ke He , Yafei Wang , Fan Liu , Wenjin Wang , Shi Jin

Driven by the unprecedented high throughput and low latency requirements in next-generation wireless networks, this paper introduces an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled framework in which unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Zhong Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be applied in many Internet of Things (IoT) systems, e.g., smart farms, as a data collection platform. However, the UAV-IoT wireless channels may be occasionally blocked by trees or high-rise buildings.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Li Dong , Zhibin Liu , Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang

In modern networking research, infrastructure-assisted unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) are actively considered for real-time learning-based surveillance and aerial data-delivery under unexpected 3D free mobility and coordination. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Soohyun Park , Chanyoung Park , Soyi Jung , Jae-Hyun Kim , Joongheon Kim

The innovation of Wi-Fi 6, IEEE 802.11ax, was be approved as the next sixth-generation (6G) technology of wireless local area networks (WLANs) by improving the fundamental performance of latency, throughput, and so on. The main technical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ting-Hui Wang , Li-Hsiang Shen , Kai-Ten Feng

The increasing deployment of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) require computational support and coverage in applications such as maritime search and rescue. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can offer low-cost, flexible aerial services, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jiahao You , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Zhu Han

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

This paper addresses the problem of dual-technology scheduling in hybrid Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks that integrate Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) with Radio Frequency (RF). We first present an optimization formulation that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Aymen Hamrouni , Sofie Pollin , Hazem Sallouha

This paper introduces a proactive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) mobility management xApp for Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Near Real-Time Radio Intelligent Controller (Near-RT RIC) environments, employing Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Mohammed M. H. Qazzaz , Syed Ali Zaidi , Aubida A. Al-Hameed , Abdelaziz Salama , Des Mclernon

This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target, and UAVs operate in half-duplex mode.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a promising essence in future 5G-beyond and 6G systems. Its main advantage lies in its robust model-free decision-making in complex and large-dimension wireless environments. However, most existing RL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Eslam Eldeeb , Hirley Alves

In this paper, we propose a novel joint intelligent trajectory design and resource allocation algorithm based on user's mobility and their requested services for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted networks, where UAVs act as nodes of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Mohsen Pourghasemian , Mohammad Reza Abedi , Shima Salarhosseini , Nader Mokari , Mohammad Reza Javan , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Age of information (AoI) measures information freshness at the receiver. AoI may provide insights into quality of service in communication systems. For this reason, it has been used as a cross-layer metric for wireless communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Onur Ayan , H. Murat Gürsu , Sandra Hirche , Wolfgang Kellerer

Future wireless networks will need to improve adaptive resource allocation and decision-making to handle the increasing number of intelligent devices. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being explored for their potential in real-time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Felix Obite , Ali Krayani , Atm S. Alam , Lucio Marcenaro , Arumugam Nallanathan , Carlo Regazzoni

This letter investigates the transmit power and trajectory optimization problem for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided networks. Different from majority of the existing studies with fixed communication infrastructure, a dynamic scenario is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-17 Haichao Wang , Guochun Ren , Jin Chen , Guoru Ding , Yijun Yang

In the era of 6G Air-Ground Integrated Networks (AGINs), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are pivotal for providing on-demand wireless coverage in mission-critical environments, such as post-disaster rescue operations. However, traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Chuan-Chi Lai , Chi Jai Choy

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of serving as flying base stations (BSs) for supporting data collection, artificial intelligence (AI) model training, and wireless communications. However, due to the privacy concerns of devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Helin Yang , Jun Zhao , Zehui Xiong , Kwok-Yan Lam , Sumei Sun , Liang Xiao