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This paper systematically studies the cooperative area coverage and target tracking problem of multiple-unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs). The problem is solved by decomposing into three sub-problems: information fusion, task…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengge Zhang , Jie Li , Xiangke Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks, and determining collision-free trajectory in multi-UAV non-cooperative scenarios while collecting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Channel knowledge map (CKM) emerges as a promising framework to acquire location-specific channel information without consuming wireless resources, creating new horizons for advanced wireless network design and optimization. Despite its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xu Shi , Haohan Wang , Yashuai Cao , Hengyu Zhang , Sufang Yang , Jintao Wang

Reliable estimation of macro and micro traffic states is essential for urban traffic management. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, with their airborne full-sample continuous trajectory observation, bring new opportunities for macro- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Chaopeng Tan , Jiarong Yao , Meng Wang

Cooperative and cognitive non-orthogonal multiple access (CCR-NOMA) has been recognized as a promising technique to overcome issues of spectrum scarcity and support massive connectivity envisioned in next-generation wireless networks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Sultangali Arzykulov , Abdulkadir Celik , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Coverage path planning (CPP) is the task of designing a trajectory that enables a mobile agent to travel over every point of an area of interest. We propose a new method to control an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) carrying a camera on a CPP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Mirco Theile , Harald Bayerlein , Richard Nai , David Gesbert , Marco Caccamo

The growing demand for drone navigation in urban and restricted airspaces requires real-time path planning that is both safe and scalable. Classical methods often struggle with the computational load of high-dimensional optimization under…

Cellular Trajectory Map-Matching (CTMM) aims to align cellular location sequences to road networks, which is a necessary preprocessing in location-based services on web platforms like Google Maps, including navigation and route…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Weijie Shi , Yue Cui , Hao Chen , Jiaming Li , Mengze Li , Jia Zhu , Jiajie Xu , Xiaofang Zhou

This paper introduces a trajectory planning algorithm for search and coverage missions with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based on an uncertainty map that represents prior knowledge of the target region, modeled by a Gaussian Mixture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hugo Matias , Daniel Silvestre

This paper studies a new mobile edge computing (MEC) setup where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is served by cellular ground base stations (GBSs) for computation offloading. The UAV flies between a give pair of initial and final…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper studies a UAV-enabled wireless network where the UAV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Trajectory planning for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has the potential to improve operational efficiency and vehicle fuel economy in traffic systems. Despite abundant studies in this research area, most of them only consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Chengyuan Ma , Chunhui Yu , Xiaogunag Yang

Communication-aware trajectory generation for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in urban environments requires simultaneous consideration of vehicle dynamics, wireless communication quality, obstacle avoidance, and onboard energy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Prateek Priyaranjan Pradhan , Ketan Rajawat , Mangal Kothari

Connectivity and automation in vehicles provide the most intriguing opportunity for enabling users to better monitor transportation network conditions and make better operating decisions to improve safety and reduce pollution, energy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Liuhui Zhao , Andreas Malikopoulos , Jackeline Rios-Torres

This paper introduces a novel channel knowledge map (CKM)-assisted dual-domain tracking and predictive beamforming scheme for high-mobility wireless networks. The central premise is that the CKM integrates both the coordinate and beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Ruolin Du , Zhiqiang Wei , Zai Yang , Lei Yang , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Low-altitude economy includes the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving ground robots. This paper investigates the 3-dimensional (3D) trajectory and communication optimization for low-altitude air-ground cooperation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Menghao Hu , Tong Zhang , Shuai Wang , Chiya Zhang , Changyang She , Gaojie Chen , Miaowen Wen

This paper investigates a new spectrum sharing scenario between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and terrestrial wireless communication systems. We consider that a cognitive/secondary UAV transmitter communicates with a ground secondary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-15 Yuwei Huang , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, where a UAV is dispatched to collect the sensed data from distributed sensor nodes (SNs) for estimating an unknown parameter. It is revealed that in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Cheng Zhan , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Path Planning methods for autonomously controlling swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining momentum due to their operational advantages. An increasing number of scenarios now require autonomous control of multiple UAVs, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Daniel Rivero

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) provide the most intriguing opportunity to optimize energy consumption and travel time. Several approaches have been proposed in the literature that allow CAVs to coordinate in situations where there…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-11 A M Ishtiaque Mahbub , Andreas A. Malikopoulos , Liuhui Zhao