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This paper investigates a multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) joint base station-assisted Internet of Vehicles (IoV) task offloading system in dense urban environments. To minimize system delay and energy consumption under strict coupling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Maoxin Ji , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Cui Zhang , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) has recently emerged as a promising technique to provide sustainable energy supply for widely distributed low-power ground devices (GDs) in large-scale wireless networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lifeng Xie , Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) acting as Flying Access Points (FAPs) are being used to provide on-demand wireless connectivity in extreme scenarios. Despite ongoing research, the optimization of UAVs' positions according to dynamic users'…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Eduardo Nuno Almeida , Rui Campos , Manuel Ricardo

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a key enabler technology for data collection from Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, effective data collection is challenged by resource constraints and the need for real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Assane Sankara , Daniel Bonilla Licea , Hajar El Hammouti

The emerging technology of the Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator (ATMA), a leader-follower style vehicle system, utilizes connected and automated vehicle capabilities to enhance safety during transportation infrastructure maintenance in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Qing Tang , Xianbiao Hu

In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs coordinated by a base station (BS) to help the ground users (GUs) to offload their sensing data. Different UAVs can adapt their trajectories and network formation to expedite data transmissions via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shimin Gong , Meng Wang , Bo Gu , Wenjie Zhang , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled Internet of things (IoT) systems have become an important part of future wireless communications. To achieve higher communication rate, the joint design of UAV trajectory and resource allocation is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Yingchao Jiao , Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Yinyu Wu , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Xinping Guan

In this paper, we consider an aerial reconfigurable intelligent surface (ARIS)-assisted wireless network, where multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) collect data from ground users (GUs) by using the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Songhan Zhao , Shimin Gong , Bo Gu , Lanhua Li , Bin Lyu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Changyan Yi

Reliable 3D trajectory estimation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a fundamental requirement for anti-UAV systems, yet the acquisition of large-scale and accurately annotated trajectory data remains prohibitively expensive. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Haoxiang Lei , Daotong Wang , Shenghai Yuan , Jianbo Su

In this paper, the efficient deployment and mobility of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), used as aerial base stations to collect data from ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is investigated. In particular, to enable reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jonas Westheider , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

The development of wireless power transfer (WPT) and Internet of Things (IoT) offers significant potential but faces challenges such as limited energy supply, dynamic environmental changes, and unstable transmission links. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wen Zhang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Dusit Niyato

Majority of aircraft under the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concept are expected to be of the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle type, which will operate out of vertiports. While this is akin to the relationship between…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Prajit KrisshnaKumar , Jhoel Witter , Steve Paul , Karthik Dantu , Souma Chowdhury

Devices operating in Internet of Things (IoT) networks may be deployed across vast geographical areas and interconnected via multi-hop communications. Further, they may be unguarded. This makes them vulnerable to attacks and motivates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yizhou Luo , Kwan-Wu Chin , Ruyi Guan , Xi Xiao , Caimeng Wang , Jingyin Feng , Tengjiao He

This letter introduces a Graph-Condensed Quantum-Inspired Placement (GC-QAP) framework for reliability-driven trajectory optimization in Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) assisted low-altitude wireless networks. The dense waypoint graph is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Zeeshan Kaleem , Muhammad Afaq , Chau Yuen , Octavia A. Dobre , John M. Cioffi

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) plays an vital role in various applications such as delivery, military mission, disaster rescue, communication, etc., due to its flexibility and versatility. This paper proposes a deep reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Kaiwen Li , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang , Ling Wang

This paper investigates a cognitive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled Internet of Things (IoT) network, where secondary/cognitive IoT devices upload their data to the UAV hub following a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) protocol in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Na Tang

In this paper, we consider a single-cell multi-user orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) network with one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which works as an amplify-and-forward relay to improve the quality-of-service (QoS) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Shuhao Zeng , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

We consider multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at a common altitude serving as data collectors to a network of IoT devices. First, using a probabilistic line of sight channel model, the optimal assignment of IoT devices to the UAVs is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Maryam Shabanighazikelayeh , Erdem Koyuncu

Autonomous surveillance missions in Internet of Things (IoT) networks often involve solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems to ensure efficient resource utilization. To address the limitations of conventional heuristics in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yazan Youssef , Paulo Ricardo Marques de Araujo , Aboelmagd Noureldin , Sidney Givigi