English
Related papers

Related papers: Handover_Management_in_UAV_Networks_with_Blockages

200 papers

This paper investigates a uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV)-assisted cell-free architecture for vehicular networks in road-constrained environments. Roads are modeled using a Poisson Line Process (PLP), with multi-layer roadside access points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Chenrui Qiu , Yongxu Zhu , Bo Tan , George K. Karagiannidis , Tasos Dagiuklas

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized as effective platforms for carrying Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs), enabling low-cost, agile, and flexible wireless networks with high Quality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kamal Shayegan

The impact of buildings blockage on the UAVs communications in different UAVs heights is studied, when UAVs fly in a given rectangular urban area. This paper analyzes the properties of blockage behavior of communication links between UAVs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Zhi Yang , Lai Zhou , Guangyue Zhao , Shidong Zhou

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

Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance network coverage has proven a variety of benefits compared to terrestrial counterparts. One of the commonly used mathematical tools to model the locations of the UAVs is stochastic geometry…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Ruibo Wang , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In future drone applications fast moving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will need to be connected via a high throughput ultra reliable wireless link. MmWave communication is assumed to be a promising technology for UAV communication, as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Achiel Colpaert , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is being integrated as an active element in 5G and beyond networks. Because of its flexibility and mobility, UAV base stations (UAV-BSs) can be deployed according to the ground user distributions and their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Xukai Zhong , Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong , Zhonghua Liang

In this paper, the deployment of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a flying base station used to provide on the fly wireless communications to a given geographical area is analyzed. In particular, the co-existence between the UAV, that is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

The use of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been foreseen as a promising technology for the next generation communication networks. Since there are no regulations for UAVs deployment yet, most likely they form a network in coexistence…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) envisions aerial corridors for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to reduce ground traffic congestion by supporting 3D mobility, such as air taxis. A key challenge in these high-mobility aerial corridors is ensuring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Abdul Saboor , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Achiel Colpaert , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin

Fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are of great potential to serve as aerial access points (APs) owing to better aerodynamic performance and longer flight endurance. However, the inherent hovering feature of fixed-wing UAVs may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Junyu Liu , Min Sheng , Ruiling Lyu , Yan Shi , Jiandong Li

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play significant roles in multiple fields, which brings great challenges for the airspace safety. In order to achieve efficient surveillance and break the limitation of application scenarios caused by single…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Chao Dong , Yiyang Liao , Ziye Jia , Qihui Wu , Lei Zhang

Wireless access points on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being considered for mobile service provisioning in commercial networks. To be able to efficiently use these devices in cellular networks it is necessary to first have a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Boris Galkin , Jacek Kibiłda , Luiz A. DaSilva

In this letter, we study a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which aims to complete a mission of flying between two pre-determined locations while maintaining satisfactory communication quality with the ground base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Xiangming Du , Shuowen Zhang , Francis C. -M. Lau

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating as aerial base stations (BSs) has emerged as a promising solution especially in scenarios requiring rapid deployments (e.g., in the cases of crowded hotspots, sporting events,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Esma Turgut , Mustafa Cenk Gursoy

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wireless service for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Rui Wang , Kaitao Meng , Deshi Li

In this paper, we propose to deploy multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mounted base stations to serve ground users in outdoor environments with obstacles. In particular, the geographic information is employed to capture the blockage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-24 Pengfei Yi , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang , Zhu Han , Xiang-Gen Xia

For unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, we propose a unified three-dimensional (3D) spatial framework in this paper to model a general case that uncovered users send messages to base stations via UAVs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Eliane Bodanese , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

The future wireless communication applications demand seamless connectivity, higher throughput, and low latency, for which the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band is considered a potential technology. Nevertheless, line-of-sight (LoS) is often…

Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipments such as drones or flying taxis is a major challenge for tomorrow cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point transmission for providing seamless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Nicola Marchetti