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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability, nonetheless, the limited onboard energy restricts UAVs' application on persistent data collection missions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Rui Wang , Deshi Li , Qingqing Wu , Kaitao Meng , Boning Feng , Lele Cong

This paper investigates coordinated downlink transmission in a multi-base station (multi-BS) multi-reconfigurable intelligent surface (multi-RIS)-assisted pinching-antenna (PA) system, where each user equipment (UE) is associated with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Changpeng He , Yang Lu , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wireless service for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Rui Wang , Kaitao Meng , Deshi Li

In this work, we propose a framework for energy-efficient trajectory design of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based portable access point (PAP) deployed to serve a set of ground nodes (GNs). In addition to the PAP and GNs, the system…

We study a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission where two base stations (BSs), each supported by a pinching antenna system (PASS), are deployed to jointly serve communication users under spatial division multiple access (SDMA)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Ali Amhaz , Shreya Khisa , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS) enable blockage mitigation in urban micro (UMi) networks through flexible antenna placement. However, the joint optimization of antenna positions and beamforming precoding is inherently nonconvex and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Qiushi Zhao , Zihan Feng , Ximing Xie , Hao Qin , Yuanwei Liu , Xingqi Zhang

This work considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks for collecting data covertly from ground users. The full-duplex UAV intends to gather critical information from a scheduled user (SU) through wireless communication and generate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Jun Li

Security is emerging as a critical performance metric for next-generation wireless networks, but conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby eavesdroppers due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Pigi P. Papanikolaou , Dimitrios Bozanis , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

We develop a comprehensive framework to characterize and optimize the performance of a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted D2D network, where D2D transmissions underlay cellular transmissions. Different from conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Mehdi Monemi , Hina Tabassum

Multi-hop uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are promising to extend the terrestrial network coverage. Existing multi-hop UAV networks employ a single routing path by selecting the next-hop forwarding node in a hop-by-hop manner, which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhenyu Zhao , Tiankui Zhang , Xiaoxia Xu , Junjie Li , Yuanwei Liu , Wenjuan Xing

Pinching antennas, realized through position-adjustable radiating elements along dielectric waveguides, have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna technology thanks to their ability to dynamically reshape large-scale channel conditions.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Yanqing Xu , Yang Lu , Zhiguo Ding , Tsung-Hui Chang

The emerging concept of 3D networks, integrating terrestrial, aerial, and space layers, introduces a novel and complex structure characterized by stations relaying backhaul loads through point-to-point wireless links, forming a wireless 3D…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Salim Janji , Piotr Wawrzyniak , Piotr Formanowicz , Adrian Kliks

Fluid antenna system (FAS) is emerging as a key technology for enhancing spatial flexibility and sensing accuracy in future wireless systems. This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled FAS for multi-target wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Chunjie Wang , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Shuqiang Wang , Yanyan Shen

Drones have been considered as an alternative means of package delivery to reduce the delivery cost and time. Due to the battery limitations, the drones are best suited for last-mile delivery, i.e., the delivery from the package…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Behzad Khamidehi , Majid Raeis , Elvino S. Sousa

A joint communication and computation (JCC) framework using segmented pinching antenna system (PASS) is proposed, where both the communication bit streams and computation data are simultaneously transmitted via uplink communications. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Xiaohu Ge , Yuanwei Liu

Harvesting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices with multiple autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging problem requiring flexible path planning methods. We propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated into cellular networks face significant challenges from air-to-ground interference. To address this, we propose a downlink UAV communication system that leverages a fluid antenna system (FAS)-…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Ali Reda , Tamer Mekkawy , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kai-Kit Wong

With an extensive increment of computation demands, the aerial multi-access edge computing (MEC), mainly based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high altitude platforms (HAPs), plays significant roles in future network scenarios. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ziye Jia , Can Cui , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Zhuang Ling , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Wireless communication enabled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as an appealing technology for many application scenarios in future wireless systems. However, the limited endurance of UAVs greatly hinders the practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng , Yong Liang Guan , Rui Zhang