• Confidentiality and Timeliness of Data Dissemination in Platoon-based Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems 

      Li, Kai; Ni, Wei; Zheng, Jingjing; Tovar, Eduardo; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      Recent advances in inter-vehicle wireless communications allow for automated and coordinated vehicles' driving in platoon-based vehicular cyber-physical systems (PVCPS). This article presents a comprehensive low-latency ...
    • Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Trajectory Planning in UAV Networks 

      Li, Kai; Ni, Wei; Tovar, Eduardo; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Proceedings)
      In Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered sensor networks, a UAV can be employed to charge the ground sensors remotely via Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) and collect the sensory data. This paper focuses on ...
    • Federated Learning for Energy-balanced Client Selection in Mobile Edge Computing 

      Zheng, Jingjing; Li, Kai; Tovar, Eduardo; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been considered as a promising technology to provide seamless integration of multiple application services. Federated learning (FL) is carried out at edge clients in MEC for privacy-preserving ...
    • Joint Flight Cruise Control and Data Collection in UAV-Aided Internet of Things: An Onboard Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach 

      Li, Kai; Ni, Wei; Tovar, Eduardo; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      Employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial data collectors in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks is a promising technology for large-scale environment sensing. A key challenge in UAV-aided data collection is that ...
    • Optimal Rate-Adaptive Data Dissemination in Vehicular Platoons 

      Li, Kai; Ni, Wei; Tovar, Eduardo; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)
      In intelligent transportation systems, wireless connected vehicles moving in platoons can improve roads' throughput. For managing driving status of the platoon, a lead vehicle transmits driving information to following ...