A service-based architecture for enabling UAV enhanced network services

O Bekkouche, K Samdanis, M Bagaa, T Taleb - IEEE Network, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article provides an overview of enhanced network services, while emphasizing the role
of UAVs as core network equipment with radio and backhaul capabilities. Initially, we …

Towards enabling unmanned aerial vehicles as a service for heterogeneous applications

F Nait-Abdesselam, A Alsharoa… - Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various commercial applications,
such as precision agriculture and aerial remote sensing, is fast contributing to a significant …

Survey on unmanned aerial vehicle networks for civil applications: A communications viewpoint

S Hayat, E Yanmaz, R Muzaffar - … Communications Surveys & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The days where swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will occupy our skies are fast
approaching due to the introduction of cost-efficient and reliable small aerial vehicles and …

Softwarization of UAV networks: A survey of applications and future trends

OS Oubbati, M Atiquzzaman, TA Ahanger… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in assisting 5G and
beyond 5G (B5G) mobile networks. Indeed, UAVs have all the potentials to both satisfy the …

A survey on UAV-aided maritime communications: Deployment considerations, applications, and future challenges

N Nomikos, PK Gkonis, PS Bithas… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maritime activities represent a major domain of economic growth with several emerging
maritime Internet of Things use cases, such as smart ports, autonomous navigation, and …

UAV as a service: Enabling on-demand access and on-the-fly re-tasking of multi-tenant UAVs using cloud services

J Yapp, R Seker, R Babiceanu - 2016 IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As commercial roles for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become clearer and demand for
services provided by them increases, UAVs rely more on new cloud computing services and …

Unmanned-aerial-vehicle-assisted wireless networks: Advancements, challenges, and solutions

M Dai, N Huang, Y Wu, J Gao… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid development of communication and computing techniques enables unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) to provide reliable and cost-effective wireless communication and …

Communication and networking of UAV-based systems: Classification and associated architectures

I Jawhar, N Mohamed, J Al-Jaroodi, DP Agrawal… - Journal of Network and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Many advancements have been taking place in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology
lately. This is leading towards the design and development of UAVs with various sizes that …

Internet of unmanned aerial vehicles: QoS provisioning in aerial ad-hoc networks

K Kumar, S Kumar, O Kaiwartya, A Sikandar, R Kharel… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Aerial ad-hoc networks have the potential to enable smart services while maintaining
communication between the ground system and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Previous …

Air-ground heterogeneous networks for 5G and beyond via integrating high and low altitude platforms

J Qiu, D Grace, G Ding, MD Zakaria… - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
UAVs are expected to be an important complementary component for 5G (and beyond)
communication systems to achieve the goal of global access to the Internet for all. To fully …