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A decentralized swarm approach for the fast cooperative flight of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in feature-poor environments without any external localization and communication is introduced in this paper. A novel model of a UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jiri Horyna , Vit Kratky , Vaclav Pritzl , Tomas Baca , Eliseo Ferrante , Martin Saska

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is rapidly increasing in applications ranging from surveillance and first-aid missions to industrial automation involving cooperation with other machines or humans. To maximize area coverage and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Carl Friess , Vlad Niculescu , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Federated learning (FL), invented by Google in 2016, has become a hot research trend. However, enabling FL in wireless networks has to overcome the limited battery challenge of mobile users. In this regard, we propose to apply unmanned…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Quoc-Viet Pham , Ming Zeng , Rukhsana Ruby , Thien Huynh-The , Won-Joo Hwang

Both data ferrying with disruption-tolerant networking (DTN) and mobile cellular base stations constitute important techniques for UAV-aided communication in situations of crises where standard communication infrastructure is unavailable.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Kai Cui , Lars Baumgärtner , Burak Yilmaz , Mengguang Li , Christian Fabian , Benjamin Becker , Lin Xiang , Maximilian Bauer , Heinz Koeppl

In the era of 5G mobile communication, there has been a significant surge in research focused on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and mobile edge computing technology. UAVs can serve as intelligent servers in edge computing environments,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengrong Song , Chuan Ma , Ming Ding , Howard H. Yang , Yuwen Qian , Xiangwei Zhou

This paper investigates the semantic communication and cooperative tracking control for an UAV swarm comprising a leader UAV and a group of follower UAVs, all interconnected via unreliable wireless multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Minjie Tang , Chenyuan Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

In post-disaster scenarios, rapid and efficient delivery of medical resources is critical and challenging due to severe damage to infrastructure. To provide an optimized solution, we propose a cooperative trajectory optimization and task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kaiyuan Chen , Wanpeng Zhao , Yongxi Liu , Yuanqing Xia , Wannian Liang , Shuo Wang

Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted the attention of researchers in academia and industry for providing wireless services to ground users in diverse scenarios like festivals, large sporting events, natural and man-made…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Marwan Dhuheir , Aiman Erbad , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Mohsen Guizani

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are increasingly deployed in vast low-altitude applications, owing to their capabilities in distributed sensing, flexible communication, and autonomous coordination. Nevertheless, the open and highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuntao Wang , Haojia Yang , Han Liu , Jianle Ba , Zhou Su

We consider the uplink transmission between a multi-antenna ground station and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm. The UAVs are assumed as intelligent agents, which can explore their optimal three dimensional (3-D) deployment to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ning Gao , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have shown impressive performance in many critical applications, such as surveillance, search and rescue operations, environmental monitoring, etc. In many of these applications, the UAVs capture…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Marwan Dhuheir , Aiman Erbad , Sinan Sabeeh

Effective solutions for intelligent data collection in terrestrial cellular networks are crucial, especially in the context of Internet of Things applications. The limited spectrum and coverage area of terrestrial base stations pose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Abhishek Mondal , Deepak Mishra , Ganesh Prasad , George C. Alexandropoulos , Azzam Alnahari , Riku Jantti

Federated learning (FL) is an effective paradigm for enhancing the learning capability of edge devices while preserving data privacy. In geographically dispersed FL systems, such as sensor networks in remote areas, unmanned aerial vehicles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shiqian Guo , Jianqing Liu , Beatriz Lorenzo

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are promising for providing communication services due to their advantages in cost and mobility, especially in the context of the emerging Metaverse and Internet of Things (IoT). This paper considers a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Peiyuan Si , Liangxin Qian , Jun Zhao , Kwok-Yan Lam

Relative localization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments is essential for emergency rescue and battlefield reconnaissance. Existing methods suffer from significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Guangyu Lei , Yuqi Ping , Tianhao Liang , Huahao Ding , Tingting Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a crucial role in Maritime Search and Rescue (MSAR), contributing to the improvement of rescue efficiency and reduction of casualties. Typically, UAVs equipped with cameras collect data from disaster…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Shuang Qi , Bin Lin , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

Integrated into existing Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) serve as a cornerstone in meeting the stringent requirements of future Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The current endeavor studies an MEC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Maryam Farajzadeh Dehkordi , Bijan Jabbari

In intelligent low-altitude networks, integrating monitoring tasks into communication unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can consume resources and increase handoff latency for communication links. To address this challenge, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Jiahui Liang , Wenlihan Lu , Tianyi Liu , Kang Kang , Guixin Pan , Liuqing Yang , Xinhu Zheng , Shijian Gao

This study considers a UAV-assisted multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MU-mMIMO) systems, where a decode-and-forward (DF) relay in the form of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) facilitates the transmission of multiple data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Mobeen Mahmood , MohammadMahdi Ghadaksaz , Asil Koc , Tho Le-Ngoc

This paper introduces an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - enabled content management architecture that is suitable for critical content access in communities of users that are communication-isolated during diverse types of disaster scenarios. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Amit Kumar Bhuyan , Hrishikesh Dutta , Subir Biswas