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RSMA Enabled Hierarchical UAV Networks with Non Linear Energy Harvesting: Outage Probability Analysis and UAV Placement Optimization
Faicel Khennoufa, Khelil Abdellatif, Metin Ozturk +2
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to enhance connectivity, extend network coverage, and support advanced communication services in sixth-generation (6G) cellular network…
Two-Tier High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) for Exploring Wireless Energy Harvesting
Faicel Khennoufa, Khelil Abdellatif, Halim Yanikomeroglu +3
In sixth-generation (6G) cellular networks and beyond, aerial platforms, such as uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), are anticipated to play…
Outage Probability Analysis of NOMA Enabled Hierarchical UAV Networks with Non-Linear Energy Harvesting
Faicel Khennoufa, Khelil Abdellatif, Metin Ozturk +2
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to enhance connectivity, extend network coverage, and support advanced communication services in sixth-generation (6G) cellular network…
Computing in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks: A Comprehensive Survey
Hoe Ziet Wong, Insaf Rzig, Safwan Alfattani +1
The rapid growth of Internet-of-things (IoT) devices, smart vehicles, and other connected objects is driving demand for ubiquitous connectivity and intensive computing capacity. 5G…
XLM for Autonomous Driving Systems: A Comprehensive Review
Sonda Fourati, Wael Jaafar, Noura Baccar +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable proficiency in various information-processing tasks. These tasks span from extracting data and summarizing literature to gene…
Multi-Mode High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) for Next Generation Wireless Networks
Safwan Alfattani, Wael Jaafar, Halim Yanikomeroglu +1
The high altitude platform station (HAPS) concept has recently received notable attention from both industry and academia to support future wireless networks. A HAPS can be equippe…
Resource-Efficient HAPS-RIS Enabled Beyond-Cell Communications
Safwan Alfattani, Animesh Yadav, Halim Yanikomeroglu +1
In the future, urban regions will encounter a massive number of capacity-hungry devices. Relying solely on terrestrial networks for serving all UEs will be a cost-ineffective appro…
Beyond-Cell Communications via HAPS-RIS
Safwan Alfattani, Animesh Yadav, Halim Yanikomeroglu +1
The ever-increasing number of users and new services in urban regions can lead terrestrial base stations (BSs) to become overloaded and, consequently, some users to go unserved. Co…
Optimization of Quantized Phase Shifts for Reconfigurable Smart Surfaces Assisted Communications
Maximiliano Rivera, Mohammad Chegini, Wael Jaafar +2
Reconfigurable Smart Surface (RSS) is assumed to be a key enabler for future wireless communication systems due to its ability to control the wireless propagation environment and,…
Energy-Efficient Multi-UAV Data Collection for IoT Networks with Time Deadlines
Oussama Ghdiri, Wael Jaafar, Safwan Alfattani +2
In this paper, we focus on energy-efficient UAV-based IoT data collection in sensor networks in which the sensed data have different time deadlines. In the investigated setting, th…
Link Budget Analysis for Reconfigurable Smart Surfaces in Aerial Platforms
Safwan Alfattani, Wael Jaafar, Yassine Hmamouche +2
Non-terrestrial networks, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) and Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites, are expected to have a pivotal r…
A Vision and Framework for the High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) Networks of the Future
Gunes Kurt, Mohammad G. Khoshkholgh, Safwan Alfattani +5
A High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) is a network node that operates in the stratosphere at an of altitude around 20 km and is instrumental for providing communication services.…
Aerial Platforms with Reconfigurable Smart Surfaces for 5G and Beyond
Safwan Alfattani, Wael Jaafar, Yassine Hmamouche +4
Aerial platforms are expected to deliver enhanced and seamless connectivity in the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks and beyond (B5G). This is generally achievable by support…
Multi-UAV Data Collection Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
Safwan Alfattani, Wael Jaafar, Halim Yanikomeroglu +1
In this paper, we propose a framework design for wireless sensor networks based on multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Specifically, we aim to minimize deployment and operati…