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UAV swarms can form virtual antenna arrays to exploit additional spatial degrees of freedom and enhance integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). The optimization of UAV positions is challenging due to the distributed nature of swarms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Dusit Niyato , Ekram Hossain

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm has emerged as a promising novel paradigm to achieve better coverage and higher capacity for future wireless network by exploiting the more favorable line-of-sight (LoS) propagation. To reap the potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Lingyun Zhou , Xihan Chen , Mingyi Hong , Shi Jin , Qingjiang Shi

This paper tackles the fundamental passive eavesdropping problem in modern wireless communications in which the location and the channel state information (CSI) of the attackers are unknown. In this regard, we propose deploying an unmanned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Ali Behfarnia , Vuk Marojevic

The efficacy of UAV swarm cooperative perception fundamentally depends on three-dimensional (3D) formation geometry, which governs target observability and sensor complementarity. In the literature, the exploitation of formation geometry…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Kai Xiong , Xingyu Wu , Anna Duan , Supeng Leng , Jianhua He

In this paper we study the deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to form a temporal UAV network for the provisioning of emergent communications to affected people in a disaster zone, where each UAV is equipped with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wenzheng Xu , Yueying Sun , Rui Zou , Weifa Liang , Qiufen Xia , Feng Shan , Tian Wang , Xiaohua Jia , Zheng Li

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial relays are practically appealing for assisting Internet of Things (IoT) network. In this work, we aim to utilize the UAV swarm to assist the secure communication between the micro base station (MBS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Jiahui Li , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato , Victor C. M. Leung

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assistant air-to-ground communication system, where multiple UAVs form a UAV-enabled virtual antenna array (UVAA) to communicate with remote base stations by utilizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Saichao Liu , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Shuang Liang , Qingqing Wu , Pengfei Wang , Dusit Niyato

The recent progress in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) technology has significantly advanced UAV-based applications for military, civil, and commercial domains. Nevertheless, the challenges of establishing high-speed communication links,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Shumaila Javaid , Nasir Saeed , Zakria Qadir , Hamza Fahim , Bin He , Houbing Song , Muhammad Bilal

This paper studies the UAV-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), in which UAVs are dispatched as aerial dual-functional access points (APs) for efficient ISAC. In particular, we consider a scenario with one UAV-AP equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Zhonghao Lyu , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper studies a UAV-enabled wireless network where the UAV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO) adaption is one of the primary evolving objectives for the next generation high speed train (HST) communication system. In this paper, we consider how to design an efficient low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Xuhong Chen , Pingyi Fan

We illustrate the potential of massive MIMO for communication with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We consider a scenario where multiple single-antenna UAVs simultaneously communicate with a ground station (GS) equipped with a large number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Prabhu Chandhar , Danyo Danev , Erik G. Larsson

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have emerged as a practical solution that provides on-demand services to users in areas where the terrestrial network is non-existent or temporarily unavailable, e.g., due to natural disasters or network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Asad Mahmood , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

This work considers an uplink wireless communication system where multiple users with multiple antennas transmit data frames over dynamic channels. Previous studies have shown that multiple transmit and receive antennas can substantially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Sajad Daei , Gabor Fodor , Mikael Skoglund

Movable antenna (MA) is an emerging technology which enables a local movement of the antenna in the transmitter/receiver region for improving the channel condition and communication performance. In this paper, we study the deployment of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhenyu Xiao , Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates full-duplex unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided small cell wireless systems, where the UAV serving as the base station (BS) is designed to transmit data to the downlink users and receive data from the uplink users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Meng Hua , Luxi Yang , Cunhua Pan , Arumugam Nallanathan

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is rapidly increasing in applications ranging from surveillance and first-aid missions to industrial automation involving cooperation with other machines or humans. To maximize area coverage and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Carl Friess , Vlad Niculescu , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

This work considers a multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MU-mMIMO) Internet-of-Things (IoT) system, where multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating as decode-and-forward (DF) relays connect the base station (BS) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Mobeen Mahmood , Yicheng Yuan , Tho Le-Ngoc