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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are poised to revolutionize communications. Utilizing their flexibility and fast deployment, we can deliver content in congested areas or provide services in areas without infrastructure. In this paper, we…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer significant potential in dynamic, perception-intensive tasks such as search and rescue and environmental monitoring; however, their effectiveness is severely restricted by conventional pre-planned…

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In emergency scenarios, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed to assist localization and communication services for ground terminals. In this paper, we propose a new integrated air-ground networking paradigm that uses…

Modern day wireless networks have tremendously evolved driven by a sharp increase in user demands, continuously requesting more data and services. This puts significant strain on infrastructure based macro cellular networks due to the…

This paper addresses a fuel-constrained, autonomous vehicle path planning problem in the presence of multiple refueling stations. We are given a set of targets, a set of refueling stations, and a depot where $m$ vehicles are stationed. The…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted considerable research interest recently. Especially when it comes to the realm of Internet of Things, the UAVs with Internet connectivity are one of the main demands. Furthermore, the energy…

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication is a promising technology to extend coverage and enhance throughput for traditional terrestrial wireless communication systems. In this paper, we consider a UAV-enabled wireless sensor…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms adoption shows a steady growth among operators due to the benefits in time and cost arisen from their use. However, this kind of system faces an important problem which is the calculation of many optimal…

In this paper, we study the resource allocation and trajectory design for energy-efficient secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems where a UAV base station serves multiple legitimate ground users in the existence of a…

In real life, providing security for a set of large areas by covering the area with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a difficult problem that consist of multiple objectives. These difficulties are even greater if the area coverage must…

Optimal deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as communication relays is studied for fixed-rate variable-power systems. The considered setup is a set of ground transmitters (GTs) wishing to communicate with a set of ground receivers…

In this paper, we consider a UAV-assisted small-cell having heterogeneous users with different data rates and coverage demands. Specifically, we propose a novel utility-aware resource-allocation protocol to maximize the utility of UAV by…

We consider multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving a density of ground terminals (GTs) as base stations. The objective is to minimize the outage probability of GT-to-UAV transmissions. Optimal placement of UAVs under different UAV…

Significant advances in sensing, robotics, and wireless networks have enabled the collaborative utilization of autonomous aerial, ground and underwater vehicles for various applications. However, to successfully harness the benefits of…

Mobile agent networks, such as multi-UAV systems, are constrained by limited resources. In particular, limited energy affects system performance directly, such as system lifetime. It has been demonstrated in the wireless sensor network…

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted much attention due to its flexible deployment and controllable mobility. As the general communication network cannot meet the emergency requirements, in this paper we study the multi-UAV…