no code implementations • 19 Sep 2023 • Mohamad Mestoukirdi, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert, Qianrui Li, Nicolas Gresset
In this setting, a binary mask is optimized instead of the model weights, which are kept fixed.
1 code implementation • 3 Jun 2023 • Jichao Chen, Omid Esrafilian, Harald Bayerlein, David Gesbert, Marco Caccamo
Deploying teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to harvest data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices requires efficient trajectory planning and coordination algorithms.
no code implementations • 19 Jan 2023 • Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Zdenek Becvar, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert
In this paper, we study the problem of sum downlink capacity maximization in FlyBS-assisted networks with mobile users and with a consideration of wireless backhaul with channel reuse while a minimum required capacity to every user is guaranteed.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2022 • Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Omid Esrafilian, Zdenek Becvar, David Gesbert
To this end, we propose an analytical approach based on an alternating optimization of the FlyBSs' 3D positions as well as the association of the users to the FlyBSs over time.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2022 • Mohammadsaleh Nikooroo, Zdenek Becvar, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as flying base stations (FlyBSs) is considered as an effective tool to improve performance of the mobile networks.
no code implementations • 4 Jun 2022 • Mohamad Mestoukirdi, Omid Esrafilian, David Gesbert, Qianrui Li
We propose a heuristic metric as a proxy for the training performance of the different tasks.
no code implementations • 6 May 2022 • Omid Esrafilian, Rajeev Gangula, David Gesbert
With this model and a set of offline RSS measurements, the unknown parameters are estimated.
no code implementations • 6 May 2022 • David Gesbert, Omid Esrafilian, Junting Chen, Rajeev Gangula, Urbashi Mitra
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as flying radio access network (RAN) nodes offers a promising complement to traditional fixed terrestrial deployments.
no code implementations • 21 Apr 2021 • Omid Esrafilian, Harald Bayerlein, David Gesbert
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is gaining attention as a potential approach to design trajectories for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) used as flying access points in the context of cellular or Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity.