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We introduce a decentralized and online path planning technique for a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of weather disturbances. In our problem setting, the group of UAVs are required to collaboratively visit a set…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Wei Zhao , Borzoo Bonakdarpour

We design dynamic routing policies for an overlay network which meet delay requirements of real-time traffic being served on top of an underlying legacy network, where the overlay nodes do not know the underlay characteristics. We pose the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Rahul Singh , Eytan Modiano

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently utilized in multi-access edge computing (MEC) as edge servers. It is desirable to design UAVs' trajectories and user to UAV assignments to ensure satisfactory service to the users and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hamidreza Asadian-Rad , Hossein Soleimani , Shahrokh Farahmand

We consider unreliable multi-hop networks serving multiple flows in which packets not delivered to their destination nodes by their deadlines are dropped. We address the design of policies for routing and scheduling packets that optimize…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Rahul Singh , P. R. Kumar

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

Preflight planning for large-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) fleets in dynamic, shared airspace presents significant challenges, including temporal No-Fly Zones (NFZs), heterogeneous vehicle profiles, and strict delivery deadlines.…

The low-altitude networks (LANs) integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high-altitude platforms (HAPs) have become a promising solution for the rising computation demands. However, the uncertain task sizes and high mobility of UAVs…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guanwang Jiang , Ziye Jia , Can Cui , Lijun He , Qiuming Zhu , Qihui Wu

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex networked environments, yet the joint optimization of multi-UAV motion control and connectivity remains a fundamental challenge. In this paper, we study a multi-UAV system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zijiang Yan , Hao Zhou , Wael Jaafar , Jianhua Pei , Ping Wang , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Hina Tabassum

Due to the rapid growth of data transmissions in internet of vehicles (IoV), finding schemes that can effectively alleviate access congestion has become an important issue. Recently, many traffic control schemes have been studied.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Haijun Zhang , Minghui Jiang , Xiangnan Liu , Keping Long , Victor C. M. Leung

The integration of autonomous vehicles (AVs) into the existing transportation infrastructure offers a promising solution to alleviate congestion and enhance mobility. This research explores a novel approach to traffic optimization by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lu Liu , Maonan Wang , Man-On Pun , Xi Xiong

Swarm trajectory optimization problems are a well-recognized class of multi-agent optimal control problems with strong nonlinearity. However, the heuristic nature of needing to set the final time for agents beforehand and the time-consuming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xiaobo Zheng , Pan Tang , Defu Lin , Shaoming He

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

Some multi-path routing algorithm in MANET, simultaneously send information to the destination through several directions to reduce end-to-end delay. In all these algorithms, the sent traffic through a path affects the adjacent path and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Hassanali Nasehi , Nastooh Taheri Javan , Amir Bagheri Aghababa , Yasna Ghanbari Birgani

The goal of traffic management is efficiently utilizing network resources via adapting of source sending rates and routes selection. Traditionally, this problem is formulated into a utilization maximization problem. The single-path routing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ying Liu , Hongying Liu , Ke Xu , Meng Shen , Yifeng Zhong

Designing effective Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)-assisted routing protocols is challenging due to changing topology, limited battery capacity, and the dynamic nature of communication environments. Current protocols prioritize optimizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 N P Sharvari , Dibakar Das , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

Multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs) encounter significant challenges in cooperative path following over complex Digital Elevation Model (DEM) low-altitude airspace, including wind field disturbances, sudden obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zimao Sheng , Zirui Yu , Hong'an Yang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used to support time-critical medical supply delivery, providing rapid and flexible logistics during emergencies and resource shortages. However, effective deployment of UAV fleets requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Islam Guven , Mehmet Parlak

Path planning methods for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are typically designed for one specific type of mission. This work presents a method for autonomous UAV path planning based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Mirco Theile , Harald Bayerlein , Richard Nai , David Gesbert , Marco Caccamo

In this work, multi-step traffic predictions are leveraged to enable multi-period planning in reconfigurable optical networks. The proposed framework aims to achieve spectrum savings by adapting the network to predicted time-varying…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Giannis Savva , Hafsa Maryam , Venkatesh Chebolu , Tania Panayiotou , Georgios Ellinas

We present the Limited-range Online Routing Problem (LORP), which involves a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with limited communication range that must autonomously coordinate to service task requests. We first show a general…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Marc Pujol-Gonzalez , Jesus Cerquides , Pedro Meseguer , Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar , Milind Tambe