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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…

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

The increasing demand for high-speed and reliable wireless networks has driven advancements in technologies such as millimeter-wave and 5G radios, which requires efficient planning and timely deployment of wireless access points. A critical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xuanhao Luo , Zhizhen Li , Zhiyuan Peng , Mingzhe Chen , Yuchen Liu

With the emergence of the low-altitude economy, radio maps have become essential for ensuring reliable wireless connectivity to aerial platforms. Autonomous aerial agents are commonly deployed for data collection using waypoint-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Wenlihan Lu , Shijian Gao , Miaowen Wen , Yuxuan Liang , Liuqing Yang , Chan-Byoung Chae , H. Vincent Poor

Cellular networks are promising to support effective wireless communications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which will help to enable various long-range UAV applications. However, these networks are optimized for terrestrial users,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hongyu Yang , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Lataief

With 5G deployment and the evolution toward 6G, mobile networks must make decisions in highly dynamic environments under strict latency, energy, and spectrum constraints. Achieving this goal, however, depends on prior knowledge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Lei Li , Yanqing Xu , Ye Xue , Feng Yin , Chao Shen , Rui Zhang , Tsung-Hui Chang

Radio maps (RMs), which provide location-based pathloss estimations, are fundamental to enabling proactive, environment-aware communication in 6G networks. However, existing deep learning-based methods for RM construction often model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Honggang Jia , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang

This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target under half-duplex operation. The area of interest,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Xavier A. Flores Cabezas , Diana P. Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target, and UAVs operate in half-duplex mode.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

Cellular wireless systems are facing a proliferation of frequency bands over a wide spectrum, particularly with the expansion into FR3. These bands must be supported in user equipment (UE) handsets with multiple antennas in a constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Ruibin Chen , Haozhe Lei , Hao Guo , Marco Mezzavilla , Hitesh Poddar , Tomoki Yoshimura , Sundeep Rangan

The emerging applications of next-generation wireless networks demand high-fidelity environmental intelligence. 3D radio maps bridge physical environments and electromagnetic propagation for spectrum planning and environment-aware sensing.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chaozheng Wen , Jingwen Tong , Zehong Lin , Chenghong Bian , Jun Zhang

The Radio Environment Map (REM) provides an effective approach to Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs). Previous results on REM construction show that there exists a tradeoff between the number of measurements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Zhiqing Wei , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Wei Li , T. Aaron Gulliver

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in a plethora of applications such as shipping, surveillance, and search-and-rescue. For UAVs to operate safely, reliable cellular connectivity is essential. Utilizing the terrestrial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Nesrine Cherif , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem

Future sixth-generation (6G) networks are envisioned to provide both sensing and communications functionalities by using densely deployed base stations (BSs) with massive antennas operating in millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Haocheng Hua , Jie Xu

In this paper, we characterize the performance of a three-dimensional (3D) two-hop cellular network in which terrestrial base stations (BSs) coexist with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to serve a set of ground user equipment (UE). In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Morteza Banagar , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their many potential application fields. Alongside sophisticated sensors, UAVs can be equipped with communication adaptors aimed for inter-UAV communication.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Matthias R. Brust , Bogdan M. Strimbu

This paper explores the effects of three-dimensional (3D) antenna radiation pattern and backhaul constraint on optimal 3D path planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in interference prevalent downlink cellular networks. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-15 Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury , Sung Joon Maeng , Eyuphan Bulut , Ismail Guvenc

The widespread use of GPS devices has driven advances in spatiotemporal data mining, enabling machine learning models to simulate human decision making and generate realistic trajectories, addressing both data collection costs and privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zhiyang Zhang , Ningcong Chen , Xin Zhang , Yanhua Li , Shen Su , Hui Lu , Jun Luo

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has recently emerged to facilitate the placement and trajectory optimization for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. This paper investigates a CKM-assisted multi-UAV wireless network, by focusing on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Haoyun Li , Peiming Li , Jie Xu , Junting Chen , Yong Zeng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly useful for tasks which require the acquisition of data over large areas. The coverage problem, i.e., the problem of periodically visiting all subregions of an area at a desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Floriana Benedetti , Alessio Capitanelli , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Gianni Vercelli

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play a key role in 6G-enabled vehicular-to-everything (V2X) communications requiring high data rates, low latency, and reliable connectivity for mission-critical applications. Multi-input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Donggu Lee , Ozgur Ozdemir , Asokan Ram , Ismail Guvenc