Modulation awareness and cooperative transmissions have individually received a significant amount of research in the scholarly literature. However, a limited number of works are principally concerned with the combination of the two topics, and they...
Cooperative intelligent transportation systems continuously send self-referenced data about their current status in the Cooperative Awareness Message (CAM). Each CAM contains the current position of the vehicle based on GPS accuracy, which can have i...
Cooperative perception can improve the situational awareness of connected and autonomous vehicles by exchanging complementary sensing information among nearby agents. However, systematic multi-vehicle cooperation also increases vehicle-to-everything...
In view of the problem of dynamically setting up a fire aiming data chain between the sensors and the shooters in the same battle echelon in the awareness combat network (ACNET) of the future unmanned collaborative combat system, based on the wireles...
This paper investigates the cooperative anti-jamming distributed channel selection problem in UAV communication networks. Considering the existence of malicious jamming and co-channel interference, we design an interference-aware cooperative anti-jam...
Duty-cycled sensor networks provide a new perspective for improvement of energy efficiency and reliability assurance of multi-hop cooperative sensor networks. In this paper, we consider the energy-efficient cooperative node sleeping and clustering pr...
Intelligent sensor networks are increasingly deployed in security-critical environments, where confidential sensing data may be forwarded through low-security relay sensors that are vulnerable to compromise, misuse, or internal eavesdropping. This pa...
The protocols in underwater acoustic wireless sensor networks (UAWSNs) that address reliability in packets forwarding usually consider the connectivity of the routing paths up to one- or two-hops. Since senor nodes are connected with one another usin...
In this article, we introduce a cooperative obstacle-aware surveillance system for virtual emotion intelligence which is supported by low energy configuration with the minimal wasted communication cost in self-sustainable network with 6G components....
Multi-UAV cooperative path planning is an important technical basis for improving offshore emergency response efficiency in complex maritime environments. However, in complex offshore environments, cooperative trajectory planning is affected not only...
Internet of Things (IoT) environmental monitoring systems continuously generate multivariate sensor data whose reliability depends on the effective detection of heterogeneous abnormal behavior. This paper proposes a Confidence-Aware Cooperative Exper...
Heavy-load unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being applied in logistics, infrastructure installation, and emergency response missions, where complex payload dynamics and unstructured environments pose significant challenges to safe and...
Secure vehicle-to-vehicle communication is essential for electric-vehicle platoons because broadcast wireless links may expose safety and control messages to passive eavesdropping. This paper investigates a physical-layer security (PLS) framework for...
Maritime unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) missions such as ship inspection, search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and emergency response often involve multi-wave task releases, time-sensitive deadlines, constrained support vessel positions, and s...
This paper presents Regret-Guided Heuristic Decentralized Prioritized Planning with Velocity Decomposition (RG-HDP-VD), a physics-aware cooperative trajectory planning framework for heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) relief delivery in pos...
Traditional vehicle ad hoc networks (VANETs) have evolved toward the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) during the past ten years with the introduction of 5G communication technology and the growing number of vehicles linked to the Internet. The coexistence...
This paper investigates attack- and channel-aware decision fusion for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-enhanced Cooperative Spectrum Sensing (CSS) in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) to mitigate the challenge from Byzantine attacks. Specifical...
Cooperative searches by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have wide applications in urban environments. However, the dense obstacles and limited communication networks in urban settings often lead to repeated searches and inefficient information sharin...
Vehicular Internet of Things (V-IoT) networks require reliable scheduling for safety-critical communication, cooperative awareness, and cooperative perception under dynamic mobility and limited roadside infrastructure. This paper proposes MoReSP, a M...
Cooperative and independently working dog breeds differ in the extent of their reliance on human-given instructions; thus, they are ideal subjects for investigating dog–human interactions in a biologically relevant way. We tested N = 149 dogs f...
This paper investigates the performance of cooperative multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems under practical operating impairments, with particular emphasis on imperfect channel state information (CSI) and relay decoding errors. Although Deco...
Low-altitude urban environments pose significant challenges to multi-UAV trajectory planning because of dense buildings, constrained airspace, dynamic obstacles, inter-UAV conflicts, and terminal-area congestion. This study proposes a hierarchical th...
Space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs) enable flexible content delivery through satellite–UAV–ground cooperation, yet time-varying user demand and dynamic backhaul conditions pose significant challenges to efficient UAV...
This article proposes a novel passive localization framework that leverages detection results from existing distributed radio detectors. The intuition behind this solution is to combine positive (signal detected) and negative (signal not detected) de...
Device-to-device (D2D) communication is an essential feature for the future cellular networks as it increases spectrum efficiency by reusing resources between cellular and D2D users. However, the performance of the overall system can degrade if there...
Guiding future awareness of and attitudes on the importance of nature and understanding environmental change is crucial for its future mitigation. A barrier to acting on issues such as climate change, however, is the time scale at which they occur an...
It is challenging to detect continuous low-thrust maneuver parameters of non-cooperative satellites because the signals are weak over limited observation arcs and are readily masked by measurement noise and orbit-determination errors. This paper prop...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a promising technology used to provide on-demand wireless energy transfer (WET) and sustain various low-power ground devices (GDs) for the Internet of Everything (IoE) in sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. Ho...
Urban air mobility path planning must account for objects that do not provide cooperative surveillance information, but their motion and avoidance responses vary by class, making a single extrapolated trajectory insufficient to inform every path deci...
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Red-light running at signalised intersections poses a significant safety risk, necessitating advanced predictive technologies to predict red-light violation behaviour, especially for advanced red-light warning (ARLW) systems. This research leverages...
In the face of cooperative intelligent transportation systems (C-ITS) advancements, the inclusion of vulnerable road users (VRU), i.e., pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists, has just recently become a part of the discussion. Including VRU in C-IT...
The rapid growth of AI-driven workloads, IoT ecosystems, and distributed digital services has exposed fundamental limitations in existing cloud and edge infrastructures, particularly in guaranteeing robust data privacy under emerging quantum threats....
Short-term wind speed forecasting plays a critical role in enabling the reliable integration of renewable energy and supporting the sustainable operation of power systems. However, traditional dual-frequency decomposition methods oversimplify wind sp...
While the growth of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) usage over the next few years is indisputable, cooperative operation strategies for UAV swarms have gained great interest in the research community. Mission capabilities increase while contingencies c...
Cooperative UAV missions often require multiple vehicles to reach a target area at nearly the same time. For small-turbofan UAVs flying along recorded routes, this timing task is affected by path-length differences, spatially varying wind, and phase-...
A cognitive radio-based spectrum allocation scheme using an active cooperative-aware mechanism is proposed in this paper. The scheme ensures that the primary user and secondary users cooperate actively for their own benefits. The primary user release...
Sixth-generation mobile communication (6G) aims to further improve capacity and reliability by controlling the radio propagation environment. Millimeter wave (mmWave) high-frequency band communication offers large bandwidth at the cost of high attenu...
The future of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) will experience a breakthrough when collective intelligence is employed through decentralized cooperative systems. A system capable of controlling all AVs crossing urban intersections, considering the state of...
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are emerging as mobile sensing and actuation resources in mixed traffic, but their contribution to urban road-network resilience depends on more than nominal penetration. This structured critical review examine...
In future intelligent vehicle-infrastructure cooperation frameworks, accurate self-positioning is an important prerequisite for better driving environment evaluation (e.g., traffic safety and traffic efficiency). We herein describe a joint cooperativ...
A kind of communication-aware cooperative target tracking algorithm is proposed, which is based on information consensus under multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) communication noise. Each UAV uses the extended Kalman filter to predict target movem...
This paper investigates carbon reduction and pricing decisions in a green supply chain composed of a government, a manufacturer, and a retailer, under the joint influence of carbon tax policies and consumer environmental awareness. A game-theoretic f...
In this paper, we propose two schemes; position-aware mobility pattern (PAMP) and cooperative PAMP (Co PAMP). The first one is an optimization scheme that avoids void hole occurrence and minimizes the uncertainty in the position estimation of glider’...
Heated tobacco products (HTP) use a device that heats tobacco to generate an aerosol containing nicotine instead of burning it as it happens with combustion tobacco. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of heat-not-burn tobacco use among stud...
Existing anomaly and intrusion detection schemes of wireless sensor networks have mainly focused on the detection of intrusions. Once the intrusion is detected, an alerts or claims will be generated. However, any unidentified malicious nodes in the n...
Multi-UAV cooperative persistent tracking in complex obstacle environments requires agents to approach dynamic targets while ensuring obstacle avoidance and flight safety; however, standard multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods typically...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly used as flexible sensing platforms for remote sensing applications due to their rapid deployment and efficient data acquisition capabilities. Cooperative vehicle–UAV systems have shown grea...
Fair allocation in an integrated charging–swapping station depends on both how an event defines value and how evidentiary uncertainty propagates into settlement. Existing vehicle-to-grid (V2G) studies commonly treat contribution attribution and...
Owing to the harsh and unpredictable behavior of the sea channel, network protocols that combat the undesirable and challenging properties of the channel are of critical significance. Protocols addressing such challenges exist in literature. However,...
The transportation of large payloads can be made possible with Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) implementing cooperative strategies. In this work, we focus on the coordinated MRS trajectory planning task exploiting a Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework...
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