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most citedWireless Communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges

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cs.IT2017★ 5 cited

Overcoming Endurance Issue: UAV-Enabled Communications with Proactive Caching

Xiaoli Xu, Yong Zeng, Yong Liang Guan +1

Wireless communication enabled by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as an appealing technology for many application scenarios in future wireless systems. However, the lim…

cs.IT2017★ 10 cited

Joint Altitude and Beamwidth Optimization for UAV-Enabled Multiuser Communications

Haiyun He, Shuowen Zhang, Yong Zeng +1

In this letter, we study multiuser communication systems enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is equipped with a directional antenna of adjustable beamwidth. We propose…

cs.IT2017★ 9 cited

Cellular-Enabled UAV Communication: Trajectory Optimization Under Connectivity Constraint

Shuowen Zhang, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

In this paper, we study a cellular-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system consisting of one UAV and multiple ground base stations (GBSs). The UAV has a mission…

cs.IT2017★ 17 cited

Blocking Probability and Spatial Throughput Characterization for Cellular-Enabled UAV Network with Directional Antenna

Jiangbin Lyu, Rui Zhang

The past few years have witnessed a tremendous increase on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civilian applications, which call for high-performance communication betwee…

cs.IT2017

Flexible Multi-Group Single-Carrier Modulation: Optimal Subcarrier Grouping and Rate Maximization

Yifei Yang, Shuowen Zhang, Joni Polili Lie +1

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and single-carrier frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE) are two commonly adopted modulation schemes for frequency-selective chan…

cs.IT2017★ 16 cited

UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer: Trajectory Design and Energy Optimization

Jie Xu, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

This paper studies a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) system, where a UAV-mounted mobile energy transmitter (ET) is dispatched to deliver wir…