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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now beginning to be deployed for enhancing the network performance and coverage in wireless communication. However, due to the limitation of their on-board power and flight time, it is challenging to…

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Despite the advantages of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for wireless use case such as medium access control (MAC), their real-world deployment in Internet of Things (IoT) is hindered by their sample inefficiency. To alleviate…

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The Information Updating Networks (IUNs) offers significant potential for ocean exploration but encounters challenges due to dynamic underwater environments and severe system attenuation. Current methods relying on Autonomous Underwater…

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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…

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In this paper, a novel joint energy and age of information (AoI) optimization framework for IoT devices in a non-stationary environment is presented. In particular, IoT devices that are distributed in the real-world are required to…

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The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

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Employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted growing interests and emerged as the state-of-the-art technology for data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this paper, with the objective of minimizing the total…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Botao Zhu , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ha H. Nguyen , Robert Barton , Jerome Henry

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is used extensively in Autonomous Systems (AS) as it enables learning at runtime without the need for a model of the environment or predefined actions. However, most applications of RL in AS, such as those based…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Wireless Power Transfer (WPT)-assisted Internet of Things (IoT) systems face the following challenges: limited resources and suboptimal trajectory planning. Reinforcement learning-based trajectory planning…

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Age-of-information (AoI) and transmission power are crucial performance metrics in low energy wireless networks, where information freshness is of paramount importance. This study examines a power-limited internet of things (IoT) network…

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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…

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The low-altitude Internet of Things (IoT), supported by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), provides ground sensing networks with advanced real-time monitoring and data collection. To maximize data collection volume from distributed IoT nodes,…

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be a key component of the next-generation wireless systems. Due to their deployment flexibility, UAVs are being considered as an efficient solution for collecting information data from ground…

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In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs to accelerate data transmissions from ground users (GUs) to a remote base station (BS) via the UAVs' relay communications. The UAVs' intermittent information exchanges typically result in delays in…

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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…

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