A tutorial on UAVs for wireless networks: Applications, challenges, and open problems

M Mozaffari, W Saad, M Bennis… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Optimizing number, placement, and backhaul connectivity of multi-UAV networks

J Sabzehali, VK Shah, Q Fan… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is a promising solution to providing wireless
coverage to ground users in challenging rural areas (such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices …

Improving quality-of-service in cluster-based UAV-assisted edge networks

T Bose, A Suresh, OJ Pandey… - … on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With millions of devices connected together, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become an
emerging technology for future wireless networks. The ever-increasing number of smart …

Capacity analysis of UAV communications: Cases of random trajectories

X Yuan, Z Feng, W Xu, W Ni, JA Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyzes the link capacity between autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) with random three-dimensional (3-D) trajectories. This is distinctively different from …

Experimental analysis of multipoint-to-point UAV communications with IEEE 802.11 n and 802.11 ac

S Hayat, E Yanmaz, C Bettstetter - 2015 IEEE 26th annual …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 performance analysis of spectrum sharing between UAV enabled wireless mesh networks and ground networks

Z Wei, J Zhu, Z Guo, F Ning - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has the advantages of large coverage and flexibility, which
could be applied in disaster management to provide wireless services to the rescuers and …

Modeling and analysis of uav-assisted mobile network with imperfect beam alignment

MA Ouamri, R Alkanhel, C Gueguen… - … Computers, Materials & …, 2023 - hal.science
With the rapid development of emerging 5G and beyond (B5G), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) are increasingly important to improve the performance of dense cellular networks. As …

Role-based connectivity management with realistic air-to-ground channels for cooperative UAVs

N Goddemeier, K Daniel… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ad-hoc aerial sensor networks leveraging MUAVs (Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are
ideally suited to cost-efficiently explore unknown or hostile environments for example in …

UAV selection and link switching policy for hybrid tethered UAV-assisted communication

VU Pai, B Sainath - IEEE Communications Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been a frontier of communication technology
research for their unique advantages. Their mobility and flexibility enable their use in next …

Performance analysis of UAV enabled disaster recovery networks: A stochastic geometric framework based on cluster processes

AM Hayajneh, SAR Zaidi, DC McLernon… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we develop a comprehensive statistical framework to characterize and model
large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle-enabled post-disaster recovery cellular networks. In …