One of the key components of any smart city is considered to be its intelligent transportation
systems (ITSs). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned in several ITS application
fields because of their autonomous operation, mobility, communication/processing
capabilities, and other factors. In this paper, cooperative terahertz (THz) communication is
proposed for flying ad hoc networks (FANETs), which is a particular kind of network made up
of a collection of small UAVs linked in an ad hoc fashion and working together to accomplish …