In this paper, we use an aerial base station (aerial-BS) to enhance fairness in a dynamic environment with user mobility. The problem of optimally placing the aerial-BS is a non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problem. Moreover, the network topology is subject to continuous changes due to the user mobility…
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Paper proposes efficient UAV placement for aerial base stations.
problem Efficient placement of UAVs as aerial base stations to serve varying traffic demand.
method Modeling UAV deployment as a non-cooperative game and using a learning-based algorithm to update UAV locations.
result Significant performance gains up to 52% and 74% in terms of throughput and dropped users compared to an optimized baseline algorithm.
A Distributed Approach for Networked Flying Platform Association with Small Cells in 5G+ Networkscs.NI
The densification of small-cell base stations in a 5G architecture is a promising approach to enhance the coverage area and facilitate the ever increasing capacity demand of end users. However, the bottleneck is an intelligent management of a backhaul/fronthaul network for these small-cell base stations. This involves …
UAV enabled communications and networking can enhance wireless connectivity and support emerging services. However, this would require system-level understanding to modify and extend the existing terrestrial network infrastructure. In this paper, we integrate UAVs both as user equipment and base stations into existing …
In spite of the many advantages of aerial imagery for crowd monitoring and management at mass events, datasets of aerial images of crowds are still lacking in the field. As a remedy, in this work we introduce a novel crowd dataset, the DLR Aerial Crowd Dataset (DLR-ACD), which is composed of 33 large aerial images acqu…
Paper uses machine learning to optimize UAV deployment for traffic offloading.
problem Optimizing UAV deployment for efficient traffic offloading from ground BSs.
method LSTM for traffic prediction, KEG algorithm for service area determination, multi-access techniques comparison.
result RSMA reduces up to 24% total power consumption compared to conventional methods.
Paper proposes a method to improve building extraction from aerial images by adapting CNN models.
problem Limited generalization of CNN-based segmentation models for unseen images.
method Combines domain transfer and adversarial attack concepts to adapt input images to target images.
result Improves overall IoU and outperforms other methods in cross-dataset experiments.
Monitoring of disasters is crucial for mitigating their effects on the environment and human population, and can be facilitated by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), equipped with camera sensors that produce aerial photos of the areas of interest. A modern technique for recognition of events based on aerial pho…
Proposes AtCoR for predicting bike station usage, improving station network reconfiguration.
problem Challenges in predicting new bike stations due to lack of historical data.
method AtCoR algorithm that predicts both existing and new bike stations using station-centered heatmaps and historical correlations.
result AtCoR outperforms existing models in predicting bike station usage.
DALES offers a large annotated aerial LiDAR dataset for 3D deep learning.
problem Lack of large-scale annotated aerial LiDAR datasets for deep learning.
method Collection and annotation of over half a billion hand-labeled points from an ALS scanner.
result DALES is the most extensive publicly available ALS data set with improved resolution and coverage.
AirRL uses RL to infer urban air quality from selected stations.
problem Inferring fine-grained urban air quality from limited monitoring stations.
method Reinforcement learning model with a dynamic station selector and air quality regressor.
result AirRL achieves highest performance in air quality inference experiments.
Two approaches detect EV charging patterns at stations.
problem Identify charging patterns at electric vehicle charging stations.
method Two approaches: rule-based and hierarchical clustering.
result Hierarchical clustering revealed unexpected charging patterns.
Study uses aerial or satellite imagery to improve land price prediction in Thailand.
problem Limited accuracy of traditional land price prediction methods.
method Proposes a similarity-based asset valuation model using Siamese-inspired Neural Network and ensembles deep learning and tree-based models.
result Achieves an AUC of approximately 0.81, outperforming traditional methods.
Natural Disaster Classification using Aerial Photography Explainable for Typhoon Damaged Featurecs.CV
This paper classifies typhoon damage features using aerial photography.
problem Typhoon damages and slow recovery times.
method Aerial photography for classification of eight classes including land covers and disaster areas.
result Visualize and explain typhoon disaster features using convolutional activation maps.
Enabling cellular connectivity for drones introduces a wide set of challenges and opportunities. Communication of cellular-connected drones is influenced by 3-dimensional mobility and line-of-sight channel characteristics which results in higher number of handovers with increasing altitude. Our cell planning simulation…
Paper optimizes UAV navigation for IoT data freshness and energy efficiency.
problem Improving data freshness and connectivity for IoT devices with UAVs.
method Deep reinforcement learning model with experience replay for energy-efficient UAV trajectory optimization.
result The proposed approach is 3.6% and 3.13% more energy efficient than greedy and baseline methods.
Electric vehicles (EVs) have been gaining popularity due to their environmental friendliness and efficiency. EV charging station networks are scalable solutions for supporting increasing numbers of EVs within modern electric grid constraints, yet few tools exist to aid the physical configuration design of new networks.…
With the rising number of interconnected devices and sensors, modeling distributed sensor networks is of increasing interest. Recurrent neural networks (RNN) are considered particularly well suited for modeling sensory and streaming data. When predicting future behavior, incorporating information from neighboring senso…
Multi-site modelling and reconstruction of past extreme skew surges along the French Atlantic coaststat.AP
Study models extreme skew surges along French Atlantic coast.
problem Appropriate modelling of extreme skew surges for coastal risk management.
method Peak-over-threshold framework, multivariate generalized Pareto distribution, extreme regression framework.
result Reconstructed historical skew surge time series at stations with limited data.
One fundamental issue in managing bike sharing systems is the bike flow prediction. Due to the hardness of predicting the flow for a single station, recent research works often predict the bike flow at cluster-level. While such studies gain satisfactory prediction accuracy, they cannot directly guide some fine-grained …
This paper studies the problem of spectrum shortage in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network during critical missions such as wildfire monitoring, search and rescue, and disaster monitoring. Such applications involve a high demand for high-throughput data transmissions such as real-time video-, image-, and voice- st…
Paper proposes a federated learning framework for UAV swarms, optimizing convergence rate and energy consumption.
problem Challenges of centralized ML in UAV swarms due to limited connections and large data volumes.
method Distributed federated learning within UAV swarm, joint power allocation and scheduling design.
result Joint design strategy reduces communication rounds by up to 35%.
PeakWeather provides Swiss weather station data for machine learning.
problem Accurate weather forecasting for various activities and decision-making.
method High-quality dataset of surface weather observations from 8 years of Swiss stations.
result Dataset supports a wide range of spatiotemporal tasks.
Challenge forecasts EV charging station usage accurately.
problem Better understanding of EV charging behaviors needed.
method Hierarchical forecasting of EV charging station occupancy.
result Hierarchical forecasting improves EV charging station occupancy predictions.
This paper evaluates conformal prediction for aerial image classification in challenging environments.
problem Challenging aerial image classification in data-scarce, unconstrained environments.
method Conformal prediction applied to pretrained models (MobileNet, DenseNet, ResNet) with limited labeled data.
result Conformal prediction can provide valuable uncertainty estimates even with small labeled samples.
Paper presents a simple method for accurate user localization in urban areas.
problem Poor GPS performance in dense urban environments.
method Localization based on pathloss using base station signal strengths and RadioUNet approximations.
result Accurate user location extraction in urban environments.
Inferring air quality from a limited number of observations is an essential task for monitoring and controlling air pollution. Existing inference methods typically use low spatial resolution data collected by fixed monitoring stations and infer the concentration of air pollutants using additional types of data, e.g., m…
FedSpace optimizes ML training on satellites and ground stations.
problem Training machine learning models on satellites with limited bandwidth.
method Federated Learning framework that dynamically schedules model aggregation based on satellite orbits.
result Reduces training time by 1.7 days over state-of-the-art algorithms.
This study proposes a novel Graph Convolutional Neural Network with Data-driven Graph Filter (GCNN-DDGF) model that can learn hidden heterogeneous pairwise correlations between stations to predict station-level hourly demand in a large-scale bike-sharing network. Two architectures of the GCNN-DDGF model are explored; G…
System predicts ice formation to improve road safety.
problem Improving road safety through accurate ice formation prediction.
method Combining physical models and machine learning for data correction.
result Machine learning effectively corrects incorrect data in forecasts.
A framework assesses the quality of crowdsourced weather data.
problem Quality control and assessment of crowdsourced weather data from third-party stations.
method Proposes a simple, scalable, and interpretable AI/Stats/ML framework to assess TPAWS data.
result Demonstrates the performance of the framework using synthetic and real data.
We consider the problem of estimating human pose and trajectory by an aerial robot with a monocular camera in near real time. We present a preliminary solution whose distinguishing feature is a dynamic classifier selection architecture. In our solution, each video frame is corrected for perspective using projective tra…
A federated graph learning approach improves EV charging demand forecasting while protecting against cyberattacks.
problem Cybersecurity risk and data heterogeneity in EV charging demand forecasting.
method Federated Graph Neural Network (GNN) model with global attention mechanism and credit-based function.
result Enhanced robustness and prediction accuracy in EV charging demand forecasting.
Evaporation is one of the main processes in the hydrological cycle, and it is one of the most critical factors in agricultural, hydrological, and meteorological studies. Due to the interactions of multiple climatic factors, the evaporation is a complex and nonlinear phenomenon; therefore, the data-based methods can be …
Private Aggregation in Hierarchical Wireless Federated Learning with Partial and Full Collusioncs.LG
This paper addresses privacy in federated learning with wireless clients and base stations.
problem Privacy of clients' data in federated learning with hierarchical wireless architecture.
method Derives communication cost limits and introduces private aggregation schemes tailored for hierarchical wireless systems.
result Private aggregation schemes reduce communication costs by multiplicative factors compared to information-theoretic limits.
Hybrid model improves wind speed prediction accuracy using MLP and WOA.
problem Improving wind speed prediction accuracy for renewable energy control.
method Combining MLP with Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) for data preprocessing and model optimization.
result The hybrid MLP-WOA model outperformed standalone MLP model in wind speed prediction accuracy.
A new method uses machine learning to optimize user pairing and association in multicell NOMA networks.
problem Optimizing user pairing and association in multicell non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems.
method Formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem, solved using a Pointer Network (PtrNet) trained with deep reinforcement learning.
result Achieves near-optimal performance in terms of aggregate data rate, outperforming random heuristics by up to 30%.
Sparse point observations can provide useful local constraints, but their benefit for radar-like fields depends on the training loss, uncertainty representation, and how observation support is encoded in the model.
problem Improving dense radar-field forecasts with sparse point observations
method A multimodal graph neural network nowcasting system over the Nordic radar domain
result Each source improves a different part of the forecast problem
India runs the fourth largest railway transport network size carrying over 8 billion passengers per year. However, the travel experience of passengers is frequently marked by delays, i.e., late arrival of trains at stations, causing inconvenience. In a first, we study the systemic delays in train arrivals using n-order…
Cellular network configuration plays a critical role in network performance. In current practice, network configuration depends heavily on field experience of engineers and often remains static for a long period of time. This practice is far from optimal. To address this limitation, online-learning-based approaches hav…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), autonomously-guided aircraft, are widely used for tasks involving surveillance and reconnaissance. A version of the pursuit-evasion problems centered around UAVs and its variants has been extensively studied in recent years due to numerous breakthroughs in AI. We present an approach to …
Low-Cost Outdoor Air Quality Monitoring and Sensor Calibration: A Survey and Critical Analysiseess.SP
The significance of air pollution and the problems associated with it are fueling deployments of air quality monitoring stations worldwide. The most common approach for air quality monitoring is to rely on environmental monitoring stations, which unfortunately are very expensive both to acquire and to maintain. Hence e…
We study collaborative machine learning (ML) across wireless devices, each with its own local dataset. Offloading these datasets to a cloud or an edge server to implement powerful ML solutions is often not feasible due to latency, bandwidth and privacy constraints. Instead, we consider federated edge learning (FEEL), w…
As cellular networks become denser, a scalable and dynamic tuning of wireless base station parameters can only be achieved through automated optimization. Although the contextual bandit framework arises as a natural candidate for such a task, its extension to a parallel setting is not straightforward: one needs to care…
Develops a combinatorial semi-bandit method for electric vehicle charging station selection.
problem Long-distance navigation for BEVs with unknown charging station availability and performance.
method Combinatorial semi-bandit framework, pre-processing road network, Bayesian modeling, Thompson Sampling, BayesUCB, Epsilon-greedy.
result Demonstrates improved navigation performance on long-distance BEV charging station selection.
GraphSVR forecasts urban air pollution robustly across stations and seasons.
problem Nonlinear, nonstationary, spatiotemporally dependent urban air pollution forecasting challenges.
method Combines graph convolutional learning and support vector regression.
result GraphSVR improves predictive accuracy and maintains stable performance across seasons and outlier-prone episodes.
Bayesian fusion improves radar target recognition for UAVs.
problem Improving radar target recognition for UAVs using multistatic radar configurations.
method Proposes a fully Bayesian RATR framework using Optimal Bayesian Fusion (OBF) to aggregate classification probability vectors from multiple radars.
result Empirical results show that the OBF method significantly enhances classification accuracy compared to other fusion methods and single radar configurations.
Integrating wind power into the grid is challenging because of its random nature. Integration is facilitated with accurate short-term forecasts of wind power. The paper presents a spatio-temporal wind speed forecasting algorithm that incorporates the time series data of a target station and data of surrounding stations…