UAVs

Distributed MPC for Directional UAV Networks: Co-design of Motion and Hybrid Beam Alignment
This paper addresses the coupled control and communication problem in UAV networks operating at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies. …
Distributed MPC for Directional UAV Networks: Co-design of Motion and Hybrid Beam Alignment
Hardware-Aware SE(3) Control Barrier Functions for Counter-UAS Interceptors with Directed Energy Payloads
Drone-mounted directed energy payloads — RF jammers and High Power Microwave (HPM) sources — offer a reusable Counter-UAS capability, …
Semantically-Informed Predictive Control for Autonomous UAV Connectivity in Urban Environments
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies offer the multi-gigabit throughput required by next-generation UAV networks, but their directional …
Biconvex Optimization for Time-Domain Channel Estimation Under Dual-Wideband Fading Conditions
Single-carrier (SC) waveforms offer significant ad- vantages in high-frequency communications due to their lower peak-to-average power …
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Flexible Hybrid Precoding for Integrated Sensing and Communications

Key Contributions

  • Presents flexible hybrid precoding architectures for Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), enabling simultaneous radar sensing and multi-user data transmission from a shared antenna array.
  • Develops optimization frameworks that balance sensing beampattern design with communication spectral efficiency under practical hardware constraints including finite-resolution phase shifters.
  • Provides a comprehensive treatment of ISAC precoding in a book chapter context, covering design principles, algorithmic solutions, and trade-off analysis for next-generation wireless systems.
Improving Wideband Massive MIMO Channel Estimation With UAV State-Space Information
In this paper, we focus on the estimation of massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) channels in high-frequency point-to-point …
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Intelligent UAV Path Planning for Ergodic Rate Maximization of MIMO Multipath Channels
Reliable communication between ground control stations and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is fundamental for safe, autonomous, and …
Covariance-Based Hybrid Beamforming for Spectrally Efficient Joint Radar-Communications
Joint radar-communications (JRC) is considered to be a vital technology in deploying the next generation systems, since its useful in …
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Subset Selection Based RIS-Aided Beamforming for Joint Radar-Communications
Joint radar-communications (JRC) benefits from multi-functionality of radar and communication operations using same hardware and radio …
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Velocity-aided Channel Estimation for Spatially Selective mmWave Massive MIMO Communications
This paper focuses on addressing the challenge of estimating multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels for wireless communication …
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