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Integrating cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) into satellite-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks offers an effective solution for enhancing connectivity. In this setup, UAVs serve as access points (APs) of a terrestrial CF-mMIMO network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Thong-Nhat Tran , Giovanni Interdonato

Fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft pose a unique control challenge that stems from complex aerodynamic interactions between wings and rotors. Thus, accurate estimation of external forces is indispensable for achieving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Xichen Shi , Patrick Spieler , Ellande Tang , Elena-Sorina Lupu , Phillip Tokumaru , Soon-Jo Chung

Flexible intelligent metasurface (FIM) is a recently developed, groundbreaking hardware technology with promising potential for 6G wireless systems. Unlike conventional rigid antenna array (RAA)-based transmitters, FIM-assisted transmitters…

The integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) into future wireless communication systems offers promising capabilities in dynamic environment shaping and spectrum efficiency. In this work, we present a consistent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Ivan Iudice , Giacinto Gelli , Donatella Darsena

The increasing rates of global urbanization and vehicle usage are leading to a shift of mobility to the third dimension-through Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)-offering a promising solution for faster, safer, cleaner, and more efficient…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fatma Yamac Sagirli , Xiaopeng Zhao , Zhenbo Wang

Airborne Base Stations (ABSs) allow for flexible geographical allocation of network resources with dynamically changing load as well as rapid deployment of alternate connectivity solutions during natural disasters. Since the radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mauro Belgiovine , Chris Dick , Kaushik Chowdhury

Increase in the number of space exploration missions has led to the accumulation of space debris, posing risk of collision with the operational satellites. Addressing this challenge is crucial for the sustainability of space operations. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Rakesh Kumar Sahoo , Paridhi Choudhary , Manoranjan Sinha

Cooperating small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will open up new application fields within next-generation Intelligent Transportation Sytems (ITSs), e.g., airborne near field delivery. In order to allow the exploitation of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Benjamin Sliwa , Manuel Patchou , Christian Wietfeld

Large-scale multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems are capable of achieving high date rate. However, given the high hardware cost and excessive power consumption of massive MIMO systems, as a remedy, intelligent metasurfaces have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Qingchao Li , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Chao Xu , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

Intelligent metasurfaces have demonstrated great promise in revolutionizing wireless communications. One notable example is the two-dimensional (2D) programmable metasurface, which is also known as reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jiancheng An , Mérouane Debbah , Tie Jun Cui , Zhi Ning Chen , Chau Yuen

We propose a regularized zero-forcing transmit precoding (RZF-TPC) aided and distance-based adaptive coding and modulation (ACM) scheme to support aeronautical communication applications, by exploiting the high spectral efficiency of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Jiankang Zhang , Sheng Chen , Robert G. Maunder , Rong Zhang , Lajos Hanzo

As a physical layer security technology, directional modulation (DM) can be combined with intelligent reflect-ing surface (IRS) to improve the security of drone communications. In this paper, a directional modulation scheme assisted by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Maolin Li , Wei Gao , Qi Wu , Feng Shu , Cunhua Pan , Di Wu

This paper outlines how an aerial telecommunications network can optimally meet the stringent needs of emergency relief and recovery operations. We propose a novel architecture, made of an integrated and highly dynamic multi-purpose aerial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-07 Laurent Reynaud , Tinku Rasheed , Sithamparanathan Kandeepan

Direct-to-cell (D2C) satellite communications have emerged as a crucial alternative to terrestrial communications in the sixth generation (6G) mobile networks due to their wide-area coverage capability. Unlike human-oriented communications,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Daohong Shen , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Yongxu Zhu , Jinxia Cheng , Dapeng Wang , Shi Jin

Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) is an emerging programmable metasurface architecture that can implement signal processing directly in the electromagnetic wave domain, thereby enabling efficient implementation of ultra-massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Jiancheng An , Anas Chaaban

In this paper, a novel multi-modal intelligent channel model for sixth-generation (6G) multiple-unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV)-to-multi-vehicle communications is proposed. To thoroughly explore the mapping relationship between the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Lu Bai , Mengyuan Lu , Ziwei Huang , Xiang Cheng

Staked intelligent metasurface (SIM) based techniques are developed to perform two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. In contrast to the conventional designs, an advanced SIM in front of the receiving array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Lajos Hanzo

Learning-based controllers have achieved impressive performance in agile quadrotor flight but typically rely on massive training in simulation, necessitating accurate system identification for effective Sim2Real transfer. However, even with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yunfan Ren , Zhiyuan Zhu , Jiaxu Xing , Davide Scaramuzza

The sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks must increase coverage and improve spectral efficiency, especially for cell-edge users. Distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D-MIMO) networks can fulfill these requirements provided that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-08 Rafael Puerta , Mahdieh Joharifar , Mengyao Han , Anders Djupsjöbacka , Vjaceslavs Bobrovs , Sergei Popov , Oskars Ozolins , Xiaodan Pang

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently gained attention as a paradigm for wave-domain signal processing with reduced reliance on costly radio-frequency (RF) chains. However, conventional SIMs rely on uniform inter-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Hong Niu , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen