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High Altitude Platform-Based Caching and Multicasting for Rural Connectivity

2 min read · Sun, Aug 30 2026

high altitude platform stations haps Content Caching network coding Multicasting Deep Reinforcement Learning Rural Connectivity

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a framework to reduce the power cost of delivering digital content across underserved rural areas. The work was conducted by Yongqiang Zhang during his doctoral research at KAUST with Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini and Prof. Mustafa A. Kishk of Maynooth University. Yongqiang Zhang is now a Postdoctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi. Providing reliable communications across sparsely populated regions remains difficult because terrestrial infrastructure can be expensive or impractical to deploy

Yousef Naief Shnaiwer

Visiting Student, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

network coding femtocell networks. cognitive radio networks.

Remote intern at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Sameh Sorour

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (former), Communication Theory Lab

network coding wireless networks Vehicular networks and intelligent transportation systems Indoor localization cognitive radio networks.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),Assistant Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) since September 2013.

Ahmed Douik

M.S. (former), Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

optimization non-convex methods machine learning cloud-radio access networks network coding Cooperative communications Broadcast and Multicast Networks

Visiting B.S. Student, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering , Quantitative Researcher at Chicago Trading Company PhD candidate at California Institute of Technology