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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is a promising solution for providing high-quality mobile services to ground users, where a UAV with limited service coverage travels among multiple geographical user locations (e.g., hotspots) for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kai Wang , Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Jun Tie

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is regarded as a promising technology in the sixth-generation communication. However, the antenna gain is always affected by the environment when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are served as MEC platforms,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Zhuang Ling , Jiahao You , Qihui Wu

This letter aims to maximize the average throughput via the joint design of the transmit power and trajectory for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled network. The conventional way to tackle this problem is based on the alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Hongying Tang , Qingqing Wu , Jing Xu , Wen Chen , Baoqing~Li

This paper investigates an efficient algorithm for trajectory planning problem of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles which fly over three-dimensional terrains. The proposed algorithm combines convex optimization with disjunctive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Alireza Babaei , Amirhossein Karimi

Designing effective Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)-assisted routing protocols is challenging due to changing topology, limited battery capacity, and the dynamic nature of communication environments. Current protocols prioritize optimizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 N P Sharvari , Dibakar Das , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

We present an efficient optimization framework that solves trajectory optimization problems by decoupling state variables from timing variables, thereby decomposing a challenging nonlinear programming (NLP) problem into two easier…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Weidong Sun , Gao Tang , Kris Hauser

In this paper, we investigate robust resource allocation algorithm design for multiuser downlink multiple-input single-output (MISO) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems, where we account for the various uncertainties that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-29 Dongfang Xu , Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle-enabled interference channel (UAV-IC), where each of the $K$ UAVs communicates with its associated ground terminals (GTs) at the same time and over the same spectrum. To exploit the new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Chao Shen , Tsung-Hui Chang , Jie Gong , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Effective risk monitoring in dynamic environments such as disaster zones requires an adaptive exploration strategy to detect hidden threats. We propose a bi-level unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) monitoring strategy that efficiently integrates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Jimin Choi , Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson , Max Z. Li

Emergency communication is vital for search and rescue operations following natural disasters. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can significantly assist emergency communication by agile positioning, maintaining connectivity during rapid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Sharvari N P , Dibakar Das , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex networked environments, yet the joint optimization of multi-UAV motion control and connectivity remains a fundamental challenge. In this paper, we study a multi-UAV system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zijiang Yan , Hao Zhou , Wael Jaafar , Jianhua Pei , Ping Wang , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Hina Tabassum

In this paper, we investigate the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided simultaneous uplink and downlink transmission networks, where one UAV acting as a disseminator is connected to multiple access points, and the other UAV acting as a base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Qingqing Wu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this letter, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted mobile edge computing network, where the UAV executes computational tasks offloaded from mobile terminal users (TUs) and the motion of each TU follows a Gauss-Markov random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Q. Liu , L. Shi , L. Sun , J. Li , M. Ding , F. Shu

Mobile agent networks, such as multi-UAV systems, are constrained by limited resources. In particular, limited energy affects system performance directly, such as system lifetime. It has been demonstrated in the wireless sensor network…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Mason Thammawichai , Sujit P. Baliyarasimhuni , Eric C. Kerrigan , João B. Sousa

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is popular these years due to its various applications. In the UAV network, routing is significantly affected by the distributed network topology, leading to the issue that UAVs are vulnerable to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sijie He , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Wei Wang , Yilu Cao , Yang Yang , Qihui Wu

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Search and rescue operations (SAR) to navigate challenging terrain while maintaining reliable communication with the cellular network is a promising approach. This paper suggests a novel technique…

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based multi-access edge computing (MEC) appears as a popular paradigm to reduce task processing latency. However, the secure offloading is an important issue when occurring aerial eavesdropping. Besides,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Jiahao You , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Han Zhu

In this paper, we focus on a typical cooperative communication system with one pair of source and destination, where a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying from a start location to an end location serves as a mobile relay. To efficiently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sixing Yin , Jing Tan , Lihua Li

Future wireless networks will need to improve adaptive resource allocation and decision-making to handle the increasing number of intelligent devices. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being explored for their potential in real-time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Felix Obite , Ali Krayani , Atm S. Alam , Lucio Marcenaro , Arumugam Nallanathan , Carlo Regazzoni

Efficient data collection methods play a major role in helping us better understand the Earth and its ecosystems. In many applications, the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović