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drone communication teams

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Handover rate and sojourn time laws improve 3d cellular network design

Unified Geometric--Kinematic Laws of Mobility in 3D Cellular Networks

Abstract: Mobility in three-dimensional (3D) cellular networks induces frequent handovers and random sojourn times for aerial users. Analyzing these events is challenging because they jointly depend on user trajectories and random service-boundary geometry. This paper develops a unified geometric--kinematic framework in which service regions form a stationary random tessellation, their boundaries constitute a random closed set, and user motion follows a cruise--turn mobility model. Under the stated stationarity, isotropy, and independence conditions, the handover rate satisfies the exact law \(H=(S_V/2)\bar v\), where \(S_V\) is the specific surface area and \(\bar v\) is the long-run mean speed. The forward boundary-distance distribution provides the local geometric input to an effective-traversal approximation for the mean remaining sojourn time. These results link global and local geometric descriptors to complementary mobility metrics. Combining the handover law with link coverage yields a handover-aware effective spectral efficiency for base station (BS) density selection and service-architecture comparison. We then specialize the framework to Poisson--Voronoi single-BS service and Poisson--Delaunay four-BS coordinated multi-point service; under both models, the handover rate scales as \(λ^{1/3}\bar v\). Numerical results corroborate the exact handover expressions, assess the sojourn-time approximations, and show how user speed and interruption duration affect the preferred density and architecture.

Fri 16 OctInformation Theory
The gist
Managing mobile users, like drones or flying devices, in 3D cellular networks is tricky because they often switch between coverage zones. The authors provide a new way to understand how often these switches happen and how long users typically stay connected to a service area. Their approach combines geometry of network coverage with user movement patterns into formulas that predict these events. This helps to choose the right number of base stations and network setups to keep connections efficient and reliable.
Open → 2610.23075v1

Power-saving method improves drone tracking under uncertain blockages

Outage-Aware Robust Sensing for UAV ISAC Systems

Abstract: Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) infrastructure can provide an external perception layer for aerial robots, but dynamic blockage makes the set of informative sensing links at the next update uncertain. A single predicted availability pattern can miss low-information outcomes, whereas protecting all patterns wastes power and may become infeasible when all links are blocked. We propose an outage-aware conformal robust power-allocation framework for multi-BS UAV tracking. A history-aware joint predictor maps radar and tracking histories to next-slot availability probabilities, and adaptive prediction sets retain plausible correlated patterns. Tracking constraints are enforced only for retained non-outage patterns, while the all-blocked pattern is treated separately as a physical sensing outage. With per-slot beam directions fixed, the resulting scalar-power allocation is a semidefinite program. A reliability bound relates serviceable-slot tracking failure to deployed-policy miscoverage and optimization infeasibility. Across paired closed-loop simulations over five random seeds, the method attains a 0.01% serviceable-slot constraint-violation rate and uses 47.0% less power than protection over all non-outage patterns.

Thu 8 OctInformation Theory
The gist
Tracking drones using signals from multiple base stations is difficult when signals get blocked unpredictably. The authors propose a way to predict which signals will be available next and focus power on the most likely useful signals instead of all possibilities. This method avoids wasting power on unlikely signal blockages and handles total signal loss separately. In tests, their approach reduced power use by nearly half while keeping tracking reliable almost all the time.
Open → 2610.11720v1