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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are the emerging vital components of millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems. Accurate beam alignment is essential for efficient beam-based mmWave communications of UAVs with base stations (BSs).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Susarla Praneeth , Gouda Bikshapathi , Deng Yansha , Juntti Markku , Silven Olli , Tolli Antti

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an integral part of wireless networks. In this paper, we aim to find collision-free paths for multiple cellular-connected UAVs, while satisfying requirements of connectivity with ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xueyuan Wang , M. Cenk Gursoy , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Autonomous deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting next-generation communication networks requires efficient trajectory planning methods. We propose a new end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) approach to UAV-enabled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Harald Bayerlein , Mirco Theile , Marco Caccamo , David Gesbert

In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), the integration of a communication mechanism, allowing agents to better learn to coordinate their actions and converge on their objectives by sharing information. Based on an interaction graph,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Valentin Cuzin-Rambaud , Laetitia Matignon , Maxime Morge

We explore the feasibility of combining Graph Neural Network-based policy architectures with Deep Reinforcement Learning as an approach to problems in systems. This fits particularly well with operations on networks, which naturally take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Oliver Hope , Eiko Yoneki

In this paper, an interference-aware path planning scheme for a network of cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proposed. In particular, each UAV aims at achieving a tradeoff between maximizing energy efficiency and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Ursula Challita , Walid Saad , Christian Bettstetter

Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems face critical challenges in coordinating trajectory planning, task offloading, and resource allocation while ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhiyu Wang , Suman Raj , Rajkumar Buyya

This paper proposes an approach that leverages multimodal data by integrating visual images with radio frequency (RF) pilots to optimize user association and beamforming in a downlink wireless cellular network under a max-min fairness…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Yinghan Li , Yiming Liu , Wei Yu

This paper addresses the joint optimization of trajectories and bandwidth allocation for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance energy efficiency in the cooperative data collection problem. We focus on an important yet…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Cuong Le , Symeon Chatzinotas , Thang X. Vu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as the potential aerial base stations (BSs) to improve terrestrial communications. However, the limited onboard energy and antenna power of a UAV restrict its communication range and transmission…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Geng Sun , Jian Xiao , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jonas Westheider , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology to unlock the full potential of UAVs in the future. However, how to achieve ubiquitous three-dimensional (3D) communication coverage for the UAVs in the sky is a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Yong Zeng , Xiaoli Xu , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

In upcoming 6G networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play a fundamental role by acting as mobile base stations, particularly for demanding vehicle-to-everything (V2X) applications. In this scenario, one of the most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Leonardo Spampinato , Enrico Testi , Chiara Buratti , Riccardo Marini

The deployment flexibility and maneuverability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) increased their adoption in various applications, such as wildfire tracking, border monitoring, etc. In many critical applications, UAVs capture images and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Marwan Dhuheir , Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Sinan Sabeeh Al-Obaidi , Mounir Hamdi

The integrated use of non-terrestrial network (NTN) entities such as the high-altitude platform station (HAPS) and low-altitude platform station (LAPS) has become essential elements in the space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Atefeh H. Arani , Peng Hu , Yeying Zhu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been applied into a variety of graph tasks. Most existing work of GNNs is based on the assumption that the given graph data is optimal, while it is inevitable that there exists missing or incomplete edges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Qianggang Ding , Deheng Ye , Tingyang Xu , Peilin Zhao

This paper presents a novel deep reinforcement learning-based system for 3D mapless navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Instead of using a image-based sensing approach, we propose a simple learning system that uses only a few…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled Internet of things (IoT) systems have become an important part of future wireless communications. To achieve higher communication rate, the joint design of UAV trajectory and resource allocation is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Yingchao Jiao , Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Yinyu Wu , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Xinping Guan

Path planning methods for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in goods delivery have drawn great attention from industry and academics because of its flexibility which is suitable for many situations in the "Last Kilometer" between customer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Linfei Feng