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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks have emerged as a promising technique to rapidly provide wireless coverage to a geographical area, where a flying UAV can be fast deployed to serve as cell site. Existing work on UAV-enabled wireless…

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

As the number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in low-altitude airspace continues to increase, non-cooperative targets pose growing challenges to low-altitude operations. To address this issue, this paper proposes a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Runhan Liu , Hui Ren , Wei Fan

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are characterized by frequent routing path failures due to the high mobility caused by the sudden changes of the direction of vehicles. The routing paths between two different vehicles should be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Omar Sami Oubbati , Noureddine Chaib , Abderrahmane Lakas , Salim Bitam

In this paper, a hierarchical multi-UAV simulation platform,called XTDrone, is designed for UAV swarms, which is completely open-source 4 . There are six layers in XTDrone: communication, simulator,low-level control, high-level control,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Kun Xiao , Lan Ma , Shaochang Tan , Yirui Cong , Xiangke Wang

One of the major restrictions on the practical applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is their incomplete self-sufficiency, which makes continuous operations infeasible without human oversights. The more oversight UAVs require, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Michael Rosenberg , John Henry Burns , Deeraj Nagothu , Yu Chen

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has gained significant momentum in the development of network protocols. However, RL-based protocols are still in their infancy, and substantial research is required to build deployable solutions. Developing a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Luca Giacomoni , Basil Benny , George Parisis

Wireless networks consisting of low SWaP, FW-UAVs are used in many applications, such as monitoring, search and surveillance of inaccessible areas. A decentralized and autonomous approach ensures robustness to failures; the UAVs explore and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shivam Garg , Alexander Ihler , Elizabeth Serena Bentley , Sunil Kumar

Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is an integral part of vehicular communication. VANET suffers many problems such as scalability. To solve scalability and other problems of VANET, clustering is proposed. VANET clustering is different than…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Mohammad Mukhtaruzzaman , Mohammed Atiquzzaman

Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a vital role in monitoring and data collection in wide area environments with harsh conditions. In most scenarios, issues such as real-time data retrieval and real-time UAV positioning are often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ming He , Peizhao Wang , Haihua Chen , Bin Sun , Hongpeng Wang

Quantum communication brings radically new capabilities that are provably impossible to attain in any classical network. Here, we take the first step from a physics experiment to a fully fledged quantum internet system. We propose a…

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used as network processors in mobile networks, but more recently, UAVs have been used in Mobile Edge Computing as mobile servers. However, there are significant challenges to use UAVs in complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Huan Chang , Yicheng Chen , Baochang Zhang , David Doermann

This workshop paper presents the challenges we encountered when simulating fully-actuated Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for our research and the solutions we developed to overcome the challenges. We describe the ARCAD simulator that has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Azarakhsh Keipour , Mohammadreza Mousaei , Sebastian Scherer

Diverse applications have witnessed the prevalence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) due to their agility and versatility. Compared with computation and control, the communication tends to be the bottleneck of the whole UAV system. Cyber…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Haijun Wang , Haitao Zhao , Dongtang Ma , Jibo Wei

With the advancement in drone technology, in just a few years, drones will be assisting humans in every domain. But there are many challenges to be tackled, communication being the chief one. This paper aims at providing insights into the…

The advancement of low-altitude intelligent networks enables unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) interconnection via flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs), offering flexibility and decentralized coordination. However, resource constraints, dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yao Wu , Ziye Jia , Qihui Wu , Yian Zhu

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will inevitably be integrated into future cellular networks as new aerial mobile users. Providing cellular connectivity to UAVs will enable a myriad of applications ranging from online…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Ursula Challita , Aidin Ferdowsi , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad

This paper introduced the JiuTian Intelligent Network Simulation Platform, which can provide wireless communication simulation data services for the Open Innovation Platform. The platform contains a series of scalable simulator…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Lei Zhao , Miaomiao Zhang , Guangyu Li , Zhuowen Guan , Sijia Liu , Zhaobin Xiao , Yuting Cao , Zhe Lv , Yanping Liang

In this paper we introduce a software package, the Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network SIMulator (VNSIM), which provides an integrated platform assisting radio astronomers to design the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-11 Zhen Zhao , Tao An , Baoqiang Lao

This paper presents an innovative framework that synergistically enhances computing performance through ubiquitous computing power distribution and dynamic computing node accessibility control via adaptive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yiqin Deng , Zhengru Fang , Senkang Hu , Yanan Ma , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang

Recent technological advancements in small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have led to the development of companion UAVs. Similar to conventional companion robots, companion UAVs have the potential to assist us in our daily lives and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Chun Fui Liew , Takehisa Yairi