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The growth of low-altitude economy (LAE) has driven a rising demand for efficient and secure communication. However, conventional beamforming optimization techniques struggle in the complex LAE environments. In this context, generative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Geng Sun , Jia Qi , Chuang Zhang , Xuejie Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Yuanwei Liu , Dong In Kim

This paper studies optimal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) placement to ensure line-of-sight (LOS) communication and sensing for a cluster of ground users possibly in deep shadow, while the UAV maintains backhaul connectivity with a base…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Yuanshuai Zheng , Junting Chen

We discuss surveillance with multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that minimize idleness (the time between consecutive visits of sensing locations) and constrain latency (the time between capturing data at a sensing location and its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Jürgen Scherer , Bernhard Rinner

This paper introduces the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as lightweight wireless access points that leverage the fixed infrastructure in the context of the emerging open radio access network (O-RAN). More precisely, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Hossein Mohammadi , Vuk Marojevic , Bodong Shang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication becomes a promising technique to realize the beyond fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, due to the high mobility and maneuverability of UAVs which can adapt to heterogeneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Xuemeng Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Networks is a promising solution to providing wireless coverage to ground users in challenging rural areas (such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices in farmlands), where the traditional cellular networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Javad Sabzehali , Vijay K. Shah , Qiang Fan , Biplav Choudhury , Lingjia Liu , Jeffrey H. Reed

NOMA (non-orthogonal multiple access) will be seen as a promising technology for enhancing spectrum efficiency in future cellular networks. The use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relaying as a moving access point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Ghania Khraimech , Fatiha Merazka

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted multi-access edge computing (MEC) has become one promising solution for energy-constrained devices to meet the computation demand and the stringent delay requirement. In this work, we investigate a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Nway Nway Ei , Madyan Alsenwi , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

In cloud manufacturing, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can support both product collection and mobile edge computing (MEC). This joint operation forms a hybrid scheduling problem, where physical logistics decisions are coupled with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hanwen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Wei Zhang , Xin Lou , Malcolm Yoke Hean Low

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have emerged as a promising technology for realizing wave-domain signal processing, while the fixed SIMs will limit the communication performance of the system compared to the mobile SIMs. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Mingzhe Fan , Geng Sun , Hongyang Pan , Jiacheng Wang , Jiancheng An , Hongyang Du , Chau Yuen

The advancement towards 6G technology leverages improvements in aerial-terrestrial networking, where one of the critical challenges is the efficient allocation of transmit power. Although existing studies have shown commendable performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hamidreza Mazandarani , Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb

Augmenting wireless networks with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, offers a promising avenue for providing reliable, cost-effective, and on-demand wireless services to desired areas. However, existing UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Aksh Garg

The low-altitude economy (LAE) is rapidly advancing toward intelligence, connectivity, and coordination, bringing new challenges in dynamic airspace management, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operation, and security management. Existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Guiyang Luo , Jinglin Li , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Quan Yuan , Yijing Lin , Hui Zhang , Nan Cheng , Ping Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted sensor networks (UASNets), which play a crucial role in creating new opportunities, are experiencing significant growth in civil applications worldwide. UASNets improve disaster management through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yousef Emami

Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are expected to play important role for future intelligent aerial systems due to their great potential to cooperatively accomplish complicated missions effectively. However, there are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-21 Jingran Xu , Hongqi Min , Yong Zeng

To enhance both the sensing and covert communication performance, a dual-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided scheme is proposed for integrated sensing and communication networks, in which one UAV maneuvers as the aerial dual-functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jingke Sun , Liang Yang , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

The integration of emerging uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) with artificial intelligence (AI) and ground-embedded robots (GERs) has transformed emergency rescue operations in unknown environments. However, the high computational demands…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Xin Tang , Qian Chen , Wenjie Weng , Chao Jin , Zhang Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Geng Sun , Xiaohuan Li , Dusit Niyato

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the intrinsic three-dimensional (3D) mobility provides an ideal platform for implementing aerial movable antenna (AMA) system enabled by UAV swarm cooperation. Besides, AMA system is readily to achieve an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haiquan Lu , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Shaodan Ma , Long Shi , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive decoding mechanism (ADM) for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled uplink (UL) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communications. Specifically, considering a harsh UAV environment, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Thanh Luan Nguyen , Georges Kaddoum , Tri Nhu Do , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Zygmunt J. Haas

With the rapid expansion of the low-altitude economy, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) serve as pivotal aerial base stations supporting diverse services from users, ranging from latency-sensitive critical missions to bandwidth-intensive data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yue Zhong , Jiawen Kang , Yongju Tong , Hong-Ning Dai , Dong In Kim , Abbas Jamalipour , Shengli Xie