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In intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication systems, channel state information (CSI) is crucial to achieve its promising passive beamforming gains. However, CSI errors are inevitable in practice and generally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a novel means of extracting road and traffic information from video data. In particular, by analyzing objects in a video frame, UAVs can detect traffic characteristics and road incidents. Leveraging…

Applications · Statistics 2021-10-06 Cesar N. Yahia , Shannon E. Scott , Stephen D. Boyles , Christian G. Claudel

Cognitive radio is a promising technology to improve spectral efficiency. However, the secure performance of a secondary network achieved by using physical layer security techniques is limited by its transmit power and channel fading. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yifan Zhou , Fuhui Zhou , Huilin Zhou , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Rose Qingyang Hu

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

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

Extensive use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to raise privacy and security concerns among individuals and communities. In this context, the detection and localization of UAVs will be critical for maintaining safe and secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Udita Bhattacherjee , Ender Ozturk , Ozgur Ozdemir , Ismail Guvenc , Mihail L. Sichitiu , Huaiyu Dai

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is widely recognized as a pivotal enabling technique for the advancement of future wireless networks. This paper aims to efficiently exploit the inherent sparsity of echo signals for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Zichao Xiao , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Wei Wang , Qian Liu

With the increasing use of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), it is critical to ensure that they are continuously tracked and controlled, especially when UAVs operate beyond the communication range of ground stations (GSs).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Yian Zhu , Ziye Jia , Qihui Wu , Chao Dong , Zirui Zhuang , Huiling Hu , Qi Cai

The rapid expansion of oceanic applications such as underwater surveillance and mineral exploration is driving the need for real-time wireless backhaul of massive observational data. Such demands are challenging to meet using the narrowband…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Jiayue Liu , Tianqi Mao , Leyu Cao , Weijie Liu , Dezhi Zheng , Julian Cheng , Zhaocheng Wang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) exhibits notable potential for sensing the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), facilitating real-time monitoring of UAVs for security insurance. Due to the low sensing accuracy of single base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Xi Lu , Zhiqing Wei , Ruizhong Xu , Lin Wang , Bohao Lu , Jinghui Piao

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data collector for the ground sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network lifetime. Specifically, since the UAV can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Cheng Zhan , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Integrating sensing and communication (ISAC) can help overcome the challenges of limited spectrum and expensive hardware, leading to improved energy and cost efficiency. While full cooperation between sensing and communication can result in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Mojtaba Vaezi , Gayan Aruma Baduge , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

This paper presents the development of a real time tracking algorithm that runs on a 1.2 GHz PC/104 computer on-board a small UAV. The algorithm uses zero mean normalized cross correlation to detect and locate an object in the image. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Ashraf Qadir , Jeremiah Neubert , William Semke

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a crucial component of situational awareness in military defense applications. With the growing use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs), MOT methods for aerial surveillance is in high demand. Application of MOT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Wanlin Xie , Jaime Ide , Daniel Izadi , Sean Banger , Thayne Walker , Ryan Ceresani , Dylan Spagnuolo , Christopher Guagliano , Henry Diaz , Jason Twedt

This paper investigates energy efficiency maximization in an integrated sensing and communication framework for satellite-UAV MIMO systems, where a LEO satellite and a UAV simultaneously serve ground users and perform target sensing. Both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ngo Tran Anh Thu , Pham Dang Anh Duc , Bui Trong Duc , Nguyen Minh Quan , Trinh Van Chien , Hoang D. Le

In this paper, we consider a cellular controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sensing network in which multiple UAVs cooperatively complete each sensing task. We first propose a sense-and-send protocol where the UAVs collect sensory data…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained a lot of popularity in diverse wireless communication fields. They can act as high-altitude flying relays to support communications between ground nodes due to their ability to provide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Hakim Ghazzai , Mahdi Ben Ghorbel , Andreas Kassler , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite-assisted integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems have been extensively studied to achieve ubiquitous connectivity. However, the severe signal attenuation and limited transmit power at LEO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Hanfu Zhang , Erwu Liu

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to unify wireless communications and radar sensing, enabling efficient spectrum and hardware utilization. A core challenge with realizing the gains of ISAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Tianyu Fang , Mengyuan Ma , Markku Juntti , Nir Shlezinger , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Nhan Thanh Nguyen