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Article

Multimodal Environment-Aware 3D Adaptive Scheduling for UAV-Enabled Fluid Antenna Systems

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School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
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Electronics 2026, 15(11), 2330; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15112330
Submission received: 7 April 2026 / Revised: 4 May 2026 / Accepted: 14 May 2026 / Published: 27 May 2026

Abstract

To mitigate 3D spatial blockages and channel uncertainty in VHF/low-UHF UAV emergency networks, this paper presents a multimodal environment-aware framework for 3D virtual fluid antenna port scheduling within an Integrated Sensing, Computing, and Communication (ISCCC) architecture. Under rigorously verified spatial resolution and channel stationarity conditions, UAV micro-mobility is mapped onto a discrete 3D virtual port array, transforming continuous flight space into a controllable fluid antenna system (FAS). We define a spatial efficiency metric that quantifies the Pareto trade-off between spatial degrees of freedom and estimation error, parameterized by an error-sensitivity index, and prove the existence of a unique optimal flight scale. Utilizing a joint spatio-temporal channel model, we derive the irreducible entropy lower bound of channel uncertainty, demonstrating that intrinsic environmental randomness constitutes a fundamental predictability limit regardless of port density—a benchmark independent of any specific scheduling strategy. To ensure real-time viability, we introduce an ISCCC-inspired computation-and-caching strategy that leverages pre-calculated stationary probabilities to drive a multidimensional scoring mechanism incorporating channel entropy-based stability, predictive SNR, and load balancing. The suboptimality gap relative to a perfect-CSI oracle is analytically bounded, and proven to narrow significantly under the high temporal correlation inherent in VHF bands. Numerical results confirm that the proposed strategy attains 10.36 bps/Hz effective throughput and 10.5% outage probability, consistently outperforming rule-based, learning-based, and 2D spatial baselines, particularly under prolonged structural obstructions.
Keywords: UAV communications; fluid antenna systems; multimodal communications; spatial efficiency; negative-entropy-driven scheduling; Markov decision processes; VHF band UAV communications; fluid antenna systems; multimodal communications; spatial efficiency; negative-entropy-driven scheduling; Markov decision processes; VHF band

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Ding, S.; Hu, Y. Multimodal Environment-Aware 3D Adaptive Scheduling for UAV-Enabled Fluid Antenna Systems. Electronics 2026, 15, 2330. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15112330

AMA Style

Ding S, Hu Y. Multimodal Environment-Aware 3D Adaptive Scheduling for UAV-Enabled Fluid Antenna Systems. Electronics. 2026; 15(11):2330. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15112330

Chicago/Turabian Style

Ding, Siying, and Yue Hu. 2026. "Multimodal Environment-Aware 3D Adaptive Scheduling for UAV-Enabled Fluid Antenna Systems" Electronics 15, no. 11: 2330. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15112330

APA Style

Ding, S., & Hu, Y. (2026). Multimodal Environment-Aware 3D Adaptive Scheduling for UAV-Enabled Fluid Antenna Systems. Electronics, 15(11), 2330. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics15112330

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