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Our paper entitled "Mobile Cellular-Connected UAVs: Reinforcement Learning for Sky Limits" has been accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 Workshops: Workshop on Space-Ground Integrated Networks

September 19, 2020

M. Mahdi Azari , Atefeh Hajijamali Arani, Fernando Rosas

Abstract—A cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) faces several key challenges concerning connectivity and energy efficiency. Through a learning-based strategy, we propose a general novel multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithm to reduce disconnectivity time, handover rate, and energy consumption of UAV by taking into account its time of task completion. By formulating the problem as a function of UAV’s velocity, we show how each of these performance...

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Our paper entitled "Learning in the Sky: Towards Efficient 3D Placement of UAVs" has been accepted by IEEE PIMRC 2020

June 20, 2020

 Atefeh Hajijamali Arani, M. Mahdi Azari, William Melek, and Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Abstract—Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations to support cellular networks can deliver a fast and flexible solution for serving high and varying traffic demand. In order to adequately leverage the benefit of UAVs deployment, their efficient placement is of utmost importance, and requires to intelligently adapt to the environment changes. In this paper, we propose novel learning-based mechanisms...

Read more about Our paper entitled "Learning in the Sky: Towards Efficient 3D Placement of UAVs" has been accepted by IEEE PIMRC 2020