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Modern communication systems need to fulfill multiple and often conflicting objectives at the same time. In particular, new applications require high reliability while operating at low transmit powers. Moreover, reliability constraints may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Irshad A. Meer , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Mustafa Ozger , H. Vincent Poor , Cicek Cavdar

Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite communication demonstrates significant advantages in emergency short burst data services. However, unstable satellite networks, particularly those with frequent packet loss, present a severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hongwei Sha , Muchen Dong , Quanyou Luo , Ming Lu , Hao Chen , Zhan Ma

Joint source-channel coding systems based on deep neural networks (DeepJSCC) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in wireless image transmission. Existing methods primarily focus on minimizing distortion between the transmitted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Jiakang Chen , Selim F. Yilmaz , Di You , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gündüz

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to establish flexible and reliable emergency networks in disaster sites when terrestrial communication infrastructures go down. Nevertheless, potential security threats may occur on UAVs…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Qichao Xu , Ruidong Li , Tom H. Luan , Pinghui Wang

Low-Altitude Economy Networks (LAENets) have emerged as a critical communication paradigm for operation-critical and regulation-aware applications, where Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) transmit task-related information under stringent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yansheng Liu , Jinbo Wen , Kun Zhu , Yang Zhang , Jiawen Kang

With line-of-sight mode deployment and fast response, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), equipped with the cutting-edge integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technique, is poised to deliver high-quality communication and sensing services…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Bohan Li , Jiahao Liu , Junsheng Mu , Pei Xiao , Sheng Chen

We consider a two-ray ground reflection scenario with unknown distance between transmitter and receiver. By utilizing two frequencies in parallel, we can mitigate possible destructive interference and ensure ultra-reliability with only very…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Karl-Ludwig Besser , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Justin P. Coon

We present an approach for spatially-consistent semi-deterministic Air-to-Ground (A2G) channel modeling in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-assisted networks. We use efficient 3D building shadow projections to determine Line-of-Sight (LOS) regions,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Evgenii Vinogradov , Aymen Fakhreddine , Abdul Saboor , Sergi Abadal , Sofie Pollin

In this paper, a novel framework is proposed to perform data-driven air-to-ground (A2G) channel estimation for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless network. First, an effective channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Qianqian Zhang , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis

Cognitive radio is a promising technology to improve spectral efficiency. However, the secure performance of a secondary network achieved by using physical layer security techniques is limited by its transmit power and channel fading. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yifan Zhou , Fuhui Zhou , Huilin Zhou , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Rose Qingyang Hu

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly for small UAVs, due to their affordable prices, ease of availability, and ease of operability. Existing and future applications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-08 Wahab Khawaja , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak , Uwe-Carsten Fiebig , Nicolas Schneckenberger

Joint source and channel coding (JSCC) for image transmission has attracted increasing attention due to its robustness and high efficiency. However, the existing deep JSCC research mainly focuses on minimizing the distortion between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Lunan Sun , Yang Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Caili Guo , Walid Saad , H. Vincent Poor

To decrease the training overhead and improve the channel estimation accuracy in uplink cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), a superimposed-segment training design is proposed. The core idea of the proposal is that each mobile station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Xinqian Xie , Mugen Peng , H. Vincent Poor

Channel coding from 2G to 5G has assumed the inputs bits at the physical layer to be uniformly distributed. However, hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits transmitted in the uplink are inherently non-uniformly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Akash Doshi , Pinar Sen , Kirill Ivanov , Wei Yang , June Namgoong , Runxin Wang , Rachel Wang , Taesang Yoo , Jing Jiang , Tingfang Ji

This work is concerned with robust distributed multi-view image transmission over a severe fading channel with imperfect channel state information (CSI), wherein the sources are slightly correlated. Since the signals are further distorted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Biao Dong , Bin Cao , Guan Gui , Qinyu Zhang

We propose data-recovery schemes to improve the uplink reliability of Internet of Things (IoT) networks in which a gateway mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collects data from sensor nodes on the ground. The proposed techniques…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kushwanth Sistu , Siddhartha S. Borkotoky

This paper studies the statistical characterization of ground-to-air (G2A) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted air-to-ground (A2G) communications in RIS-assisted UAV networks under the impact of channel aging. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Thanh Luan Nguyen , Georges Kaddoum , Tri Nhu Do , Zygmunt J. Haas

Recent works have shown that the task of wireless transmission of images can be learned with the use of machine learning techniques. Very promising results in end-to-end image quality, superior to popular digital schemes that utilize source…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Tze-Yang Tung , David Burth Kurka , Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gündüz

In this paper, we address the problem of adaptive path planning for accurate semantic segmentation of terrain using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The usage of UAVs for terrain monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining momentum due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Marija Popović , Cyrill Stachniss

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks can provide a resilient communication infrastructure to enhance terrestrial networks in case of traffic spikes or disaster scenarios. However, to be able to do so, they need to be based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Michele Polese , Lorenzo Bertizzolo , Leonardo Bonati , Abhimanyu Gosain , Tommaso Melodia