When telecommunication infrastructure is damaged by natural disasters, creating a network
that can handle voice channels can be vital for search and rescue missions. Unmanned …

Climate changes brought about by global warming as well as man-made environmental
changes are often the cause of sever natural disasters. ICT, which is itself responsible for …

Recently different information and communication technologies are investigated to manage
disasters. Acknowledging disaster resilience, many efforts are commenced to monitor …

In this paper we study the deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to form a
temporal UAV network for the provisioning of emergent communications to affected people …

We explore an end-to-end (including access and backhaul links) UAV-assisted wireless
communication system, considering both uplink and downlink traffics, with the goal of …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when
cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider …

The commercial availability of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) opens new horizons
for applications in disaster response, search and rescue, event monitoring, and delivery of …

The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as
drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as an aerial base station is a promising technology to
rapidly provide wireless connectivity to ground users. Given UAV's agility and mobility, a key …

Drones equipped with wireless network cards can provide communication services in open
areas. This paper proposes a hierarchical two‐layered network architecture with two types of …