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The widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in low-altitude airspace has raised significant safety and security concerns, motivating the development of reliable non-cooperative UAV surveillance technologies. Integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Shiyu Bai , Sijia Li , Cunyi Yin , Wenqiu Qu , Li-Ta Hsu , Yuanwei Liu , Wen-Hua Chen

This paper aims to exploit the fundamental limits on the downlink coverage and spatial throughput performances of a cellular network comprised of a tier of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations (BSs) using the millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Chun-Hung Liu , Kai-Hsiang Ho , Jwo-Yuh Wu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial for advancing railway communication by offering reliable connectivity, adaptive coverage, and mobile edge services . This survey examines UAV-assisted approaches for 6G railway needs including…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Aamer Mohamed Huroon , Li-Chun Wang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) offers lots of applications in both commerce and recreation. With this, monitoring the operation status of UAVs is crucially important. In this work, we consider the task of tracking UAVs, providing rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Nan Jiang , Kuiran Wang , Xiaoke Peng , Xuehui Yu , Qiang Wang , Junliang Xing , Guorong Li , Jian Zhao , Guodong Guo , Zhenjun Han

Augmenting wireless networks with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, offers a promising avenue for providing reliable, cost-effective, and on-demand wireless services to desired areas. However, existing UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Aksh Garg

One of the major challenges slowing down the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (ABSs) is the limited on-board power supply which reduces the UAV's flight time. Using a tether to provide UAVs with power can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Safa Khemiri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted mobile edge computing systems have been exploited by researchers as a promising solution for providing computation services to mobile users outside of terrestrial infrastructure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Loc X. Nguyen , Yan Kyaw Tun , Tri Nguyen Dang , Yu Min Park , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Artificial intelligence (AI) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided next-generation networking is proposed for dynamic environments. In the AI-enabled UAV-aided wireless networks (UAWN), multiple UAVs are employed as aerial base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Xiao Liu , Mingzhe Chen , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Shuguang Cui , Lajos Hanzo

Since various types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with different hardware capabilities are introduced, we establish a foundation for the multi-layer aerial network (MAN). First, the MAN is modeled as K layer ANs, and each layer has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-03 Dongsun Kim , Jemin Lee , Tony Q. S. Quek

The purpose of the automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) technology is to serve as a replacement for the current radar-based, air traffic control systems. Despite the considerable time and resources devoted to designing and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Sefi Akerman , Edan Habler , Asaf Shabtai

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played an important role in air-ground integration network. Especially in Internet of Things (IoT) services, UAV equipped with communication equipments is widely adopted as a mobile base station (BS) for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Bin Li , Xianzhen Guo , Ruonan Zhang , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is the communications protocol currently being rolled out as part of next generation air transportation systems. As the heart of modern air traffic control, it will play an essential role…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Martin Strohmeier , Vincent Lenders , Ivan Martinovic

Mobile edge computing (MEC) and terahertz (THz)enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems are gaining significant attention for improving user service delays in future mobile networks. This article introduces a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Heekang Song , Hyowoon Seo , Wan Choi

This paper studies a heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative search approach suitable for complex environments. In the application, a fixed-wing UAV drops rotor UAVs to deploy the cluster rapidly. Meanwhile, the fixed-wing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Zhenchang Liu , Mingrui Hao

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can pose a major risk for aviation safety, due to both negligent and malicious use. For this reason, the automated detection and tracking of UAV is a fundamental task in aerial security systems. Common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Matt Poyser , Daniel Organisciak , Chris G. Willcocks , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

Multi-uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperative perception has emerged as a promising paradigm for diverse low-altitude economy applications, where complementary multi-view observations are leveraged to enhance perception performance via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yunting Xu , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Changyuan Zhao , Yinqiu Liu , Dusit Niyato , Liang Yu , Haibo Zhou , Dong In Kim

A high-rate yet low-cost air-to-ground (A2G) communication backbone is conceived for integrating the space and terrestrial network by harnessing the opportunistic assistance of the passenger planes or high altitude platforms (HAPs) as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Muralikrishnan Srinivasan , Sarath Gopi , Sheetal Kalyani , Xiaojing Huang , Lajos Hanzo

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