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most citedWireless Communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges

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cs.IT2017★ 5 cited

The Sound and the Fury: Hiding Communications in Noisy Wireless Networks with Interference Uncertainty

Zhihong Liu, Jiajia Liu, Yong Zeng +2

Covert communication can prevent the adversary from knowing that a wireless transmission has occurred. In the additive white Gaussian noise channels, a square root law is obtained…

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★ 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…

cs.IT2017★ 8 cited

Energy Trade-off in Ground-to-UAV Communication via Trajectory Design

Dingcheng Yang, Qingqing Wu, Yong Zeng +1

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have a great potential for improving the performance of wireless communication systems due to their wide coverage and high mobility. In this paper,…

cs.IT2017★ 15 cited

Trajectory Optimization for Completion Time Minimization in UAV-Enabled Multicasting

Yong Zeng, Xiaoli Xu, Rui Zhang

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled multicasting system, where a UAV is dispatched to disseminate a common file to a number of geographically distributed gr…

cs.IT2017★ 2 cited

Energy-Efficient Data Collection in UAV Enabled Wireless Sensor Network

Cheng Zhan, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data collector for the ground sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to pro…

cs.IT2017★ 1 cited

Retrodirective Multi-User Wireless Power Transfer with Massive MIMO

Seunghyun Lee, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

This letter studies a radio-frequency (RF) multi-user wireless power transfer (WPT) system, where an energy transmitter (ET) with a large number of antennas delivers energy wireles…

cs.IT2017★ 13 cited

UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer: Trajectory Design and Energy Region Characterization

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 energy transmitter (ET) broadcasts wireless energy to charg…

cs.IT2017★ 322 cited

UAV-Aided Offloading for Cellular Hotspot

Jiangbin Lyu, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

In conventional terrestrial cellular networks, mobile terminals (MTs) at the cell edge often pose a performance bottleneck due to their long distances from the serving ground base…

cs.IT2017★ 54 cited

Joint Trajectory and Communication Design for Multi-UAV Enabled Wireless Networks

Qingqing Wu, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in assisting wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cos…

cs.IT2017★ 12 cited

Joint Trajectory and Communication Design for UAV-Enabled Multiple Access

Qingqing Wu, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This pa…

cs.IT2017★ 34 cited

Waveform Optimization for Radio-Frequency Wireless Power Transfer

Mohammad R. Vedady Moghadam, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang

In this paper, we study the waveform design problem for a single-input single-output (SISO) radio-frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) system in frequency-selective channel…