12 papers
Mobile Base Station Positioning in Smart Ports Based on Kriged Sparse Measurements and Obstacle Inference
Paulo Furtado Correia, André Coelho, Manuel Ricardo
Smart-port wireless networks suffer from dynamic radio blockage caused by container stacks and industrial structures, challenging efficient mobile integrated access and backhaul (M…
A Vision-based Framework for Intelligent gNodeB Mobility Control
Pedro Duarte, André Coelho, Francisco Ribeiro +3
This paper proposes a vision-based framework for the intelligent control of mobile Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) base stations (gNBs) operating in dynamic wireless environments…
Voice-Driven Semantic Perception for UAV-Assisted Emergency Networks
Nuno Saavedra, Pedro Ribeiro, André Coelho +1
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted networks are increasingly foreseen as a promising approach for emergency response, providing rapid, flexible, and resilient communications in…
Design and Evaluation of a Multi-Agent Perception System for Autonomous Flying Networks
Diogo Ferreira, Pedro Ribeiro, André Coelho +1
Autonomous Flying Networks (FNs) are emerging as a key enabler of on-demand connectivity in dynamic and infrastructure-limited environments. However, current approaches mainly focu…
Edge-Enabled UAV Swarm Deployment for Rapid Post-Disaster Search and Rescue
Alaa Awad Abdellatif, Helder Fontes, Andre Coelho +2
This paper presents an optimized Joint Radar-Communication (JRC) system utilizing multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to simultaneously achieve sensing and communication objec…
A4FN: an Agentic AI Architecture for Autonomous Flying Networks
André Coelho, Pedro Ribeiro, Helder Fontes +1
This position paper presents A4FN, an Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) architecture for intent-driven automation in Flying Networks (FNs) using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)…