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Title: Resilience by Design Cellular Communications: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aspect

Time: 10:30am on 29th May, Friday, 2026

Location: Room 611, EEE Building, South Kensington Campus

Abstract: The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into sixth-generation (6G) networks presents a transformative approach to resilient wireless communications. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of UAV-assisted networks from three strategic perspectives: deployment as aerial base stations with optimized 3D placement and endurance enhancement; synergistic integration with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) for improved link reliability and energy efficiency; and intelligent interference management under dynamic channel conditions. We analyze key techniques including buoyancy-assisted designs, dual-domain energy harvesting, joint trajectory-phase shift optimization, and machine learning-based interference control. This talk further identifies critical challenges in hardware limitations, optimization complexity, and standardization, while outlining future directions toward AI-native architectures and integrated sensing-communication-computation frameworks. This systematic review offers researchers and practitioners a foundational reference for developing intelligent aerial networks in the 6G era.

Biography: Li-Chun Wang (M'96-SM'06-F'11) received Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996. He was a senior member of technical staff at the Wireless Communications Department at AT&T Labs - Research from1996 to 2000. Currently, he is the Dean of the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan, and a lifetime chair professor in the same university. Dr. Wang was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2011 for his contributions to the design of cellular architectures and wireless resource management in wireless networks.

Dr. Wang has received numerous awards and honors, including the Distinguished Research Awards from National Science and Technology Council twice (2012 and 2016), the Future Tech Award from the National Science and Technology Council (2021), the Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE) Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award (2022), the Outstanding Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (2009), the K.T. Li Fellow Award (2021) and the Medal of Honor (2024) from the Institute of Information & Computing Machinery (iICM), the Outstanding ICT Elite Award (2020), the Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award (2013), the Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Chair Professor (2023), the Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE) Fellow (2025), and the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Outstanding Research Award (2025), and the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE) Medal (2025).

Dr. Wang serves as the Director of the Chunghwa Telecom-NYCU Innovation Research Center and the NYCU-IBM Big Data and Intelligent IoT Research Center. He has collaborated with many domestic and international companies and holds over 50 domestic and international patents. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. His recent research interests focus on data-driven intelligent wireless communications, brain computer interface for human-AI symbiosis technology, and green energy sustainable systems. He has published over 300 journal and conference papers, co-edited the book "Key Technologies for 5G Wireless Communications" (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and co-authored the book “Green Energy Driven Integrated Smart Grid and Wireless Networks” (Springer, 2026).