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In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, high-capacity data transmission is of utmost importance for applications such as intelligent transportation, smart cities, and forest monitoring, which rely on the mobility of UAVs to collect and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yingying Zou , Zhiqing Wei , Yanpeng Cui , Xinyi Liu , Zhiyong Feng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have enormous potential in the public and civil domains. These are particularly useful in applications where human lives would otherwise be endangered. Multi-UAV systems can collaboratively complete missions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Lav Gupta , Raj Jain , Gabor Vaszkun

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide wireless access services to terrestrial users without geographical limitations and will become an essential part of the future communication system. However, the openness of wireless channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hongjiang Lei , Jiacheng Jiang , Haosi Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Imran Shafique Ansari , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their flexible mobility, on-demand deployment, and the ability to establish high probability line-of-sight wireless communication. As a result, UAVs have been extensively used as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Yunhao Quan , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Jinglong Shen , Longfei Ma , Zhisheng Yin

In this paper, we investigate the joint resource allocation and trajectory design for a multi-user, multi-target unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the link capacity between a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Ata Khalili , Atefeh Rezaei , Dongfang Xu , Falko Dressler , Robert Schober

In this paper, the deployment of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a flying base station used to provide on the fly wireless communications to a given geographical area is analyzed. In particular, the co-existence between the UAV, that is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Non-terrestrial network (NTN)-based integrated communication and computation empowers various emerging applications with global coverage. Yet this vision is severely challenged by the energy issue given the limited energy supply of NTN…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Xiao Tang , Yudan Jiang , Ruonan Zhang , Qinghe Du , Jinxin Liu , Naijin Liu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) promise to become an intrinsic part of next generation communications, as they can be deployed to provide wireless connectivity to ground users to supplement existing terrestrial networks. The majority of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Boris Galkin , Babatunji Omoniwa , Ivana Dusparic

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

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianjiao Sun , Ningyan Guo , Haozhe Gu , Yanyan Peng , Zhiyong Feng

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider downlink scenarios from an aerial base station to ground users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

For crowded and hotspot area, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are usually deployed to increase the coverage rate. In the considered model, there are three types of services for UAV assisted communication: control message, non-realtime…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Weihang Ding , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communications system, including two cooperative UAVs, a wireless-powered ground destination node leveraging simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

The use of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been foreseen as a promising technology for the next generation communication networks. Since there are no regulations for UAVs deployment yet, most likely they form a network in coexistence…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

In different situations, like disaster communication and network connectivity for rural locations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could indeed be utilized as airborne base stations to improve both the functionality and coverage of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shahid Rasool , Irfan Ullah , Abid Ali , Ishtiaq Ahmad

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proliferating as they are effective, flexible and cost-efficient devices for a variety of applications ranging from natural disaster recovery to delivery of goods. We investigate a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-30 Ali Rahmati , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Yavuz Yapici , Xiaofan He , Ismail Guvenc , Huaiyu Dai , Arupjyoti Bhuyan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer dynamic trajectory control, enabling them to avoid obstacles and establish line-of-sight (LoS) wireless channels with ground nodes (GNs), unlike traditional ground-fixed base stations. This study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Gitae Park , Kanghyun Heo , Kisong Lee

In this paper, an analytical framework is provided to analyze the energy coverage performance of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) energy harvesting networks with clustered user equipments (UEs). Locations of UEs are modeled as a Poisson…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Esma Turgut , M. Cenk Gursoy , Ismail Guvenc

The communication energy in a wireless network of mobile autonomous agents should be defined to include the propulsion energy as well as the transmission energy used to facilitate information transfer. We therefore develop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Omar J. Faqir , Eric C. Kerrigan , Deniz Gündüz , Yuanbo Nie