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An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network can serve as an aerial relay to periodically receive packets from macro base stations (BSs). Severe packet loss may happen especially when UAVs have bad wireless connections to a BS. In this paper, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Hao Song , Lingjia Liu , Ananth Balasubramanian

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently attracted significant attention due to their outstanding ability to be used in different sectors and serve in difficult and dangerous areas. Moreover, the advancements in computer vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Marwan Dhuheir , Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Sinan Sabeeh , Mounir Hamdi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising solution to provide wireless data access for ground users in various applications (e.g., in emergence situations). This paper considers a UAV-enabled wireless network, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Peiming Li , Jie Xu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in the last few years owing to their ability to cover large areas and access difficult and hazardous target zones, which is not the case of traditional systems relying on direct…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mohammed Jouhari , Abdulla Al-Ali , Emna Baccour , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Mohsen Guizani , Mounir Hamdi

In this letter, we study multiuser communication systems enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is equipped with a directional antenna of adjustable beamwidth. We propose a fly-hover-and-communicate protocol where the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Haiyun He , Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

When an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is utilized as an aerial small base station (BS), like a relay deployed far away from macro BSs, existing multicast methods based on acknowledgement (ACK) feedback and retransmissions may…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Hao Song , Lingjia Liu , Bodong Shang , Scott Pudlewski , Elizabeth Serena Bentley

This work considers covert communications in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, aiming to hide a UAV for transmitting critical information out of a scenario that is monitored and where communication is not allowed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Jinsong Hu , Jiande Sun , Jun Li , Feng Shu

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

This paper considers an unmanned-aerial-vehicle-enabled (UAV-enabled) wireless network where a relay UAV is used for two-way communications between a ground base station (BS) and a set of distant user equipment (UE). The UAV adopts the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Lei Li , Tsung-Hui Chang , Shu Cai

Next-generation wireless networks will deploy UAVs dynamically as aerial base stations (UAV-BSs) to boost the wireless network coverage in the out of reach areas. To provide an efficient service in stochastic environments, the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Shavbo Salehi , Jahan Hassan , Ayub Bokani

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation (6G) wireless networks, unifying radar sensing and communication on a shared hardware platform. This paper proposes a dynamic array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Rang Liu , Ming Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper investigates an autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV)-enabled integrated sensing, communication, and computation system, with a particular focus on integrating movable antennas (MAs) into the system for enhancing overall system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yiyang Chen , Wenchao Liu , Chunjie Wang , Yinyu Wu , Xuhui Zhang , Yanyan Shen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access to terrestrial users, regardless of geographical constraints, and will be an important part of future communication systems. In this paper, a multi-user downlink dual-UAVs enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their flexible mobility, on-demand deployment, and the ability to establish high probability line-of-sight wireless communication. As a result, UAVs have been extensively used as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Yunhao Quan , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Jinglong Shen , Longfei Ma , Zhisheng Yin

Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance or monitoring applications into fifth generation (5G) New Radio (NR) cellular networks is an intriguing problem that has recently tackled a lot of interest in both academia and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Donatella Darsena , Ivan Iudice , Francesco Verde

UAV-based wireless systems, such as wireless relay and remote sensing, have attracted great attentions from academia and industry. To realize them, a high-performance wireless aerial communication system, which bridges UAVs and ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Tao Yu , Kiyomichi Araki , Kei Sakaguchi

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly in scenarios where conventional terrestrial networks are constrained or temporarily unavailable.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Xiao Fan , Wenkun Wen , Peiran Wu , Junhui Zhao , Minghua Xia

Future wireless networks are envisioned to support both sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) services. However, conventional integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks may not be suitable due to the ignorance of diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wenhao Zhuang , Xinyu He , Yuyi Mao , Juan Liu

This paper presents a novel control method for a group of UAVs in obstacle-laden environments while preserving sensing network connectivity without data transmission between the UAVs. By leveraging constraints rooted in control barrier…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Thiviyathinesvaran Palani , Hiroaki Fukushima , Shunsuke Izuhara

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