A survey on millimeter-wave beamforming enabled UAV communications and networking

Z Xiao, L Zhu, Y Liu, P Yi, R Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military
applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for …

UAV communications with millimeter-wave beamforming: Potentials, scenarios, and challenges

Z Xiao, L Zhu, XG Xia - China Communications, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been widely used in many fields and is arousing global
attention. As the resolution of the equipped sensors in the UAV becomes higher and the …

Research challenges and opportunities of UAV millimeter-wave communications

C Zhang, W Zhang, W Wang, L Yang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication with multi-gigahertz bandwidth availability
enables much higher capacity and transmission rate than conventional microwave …

A survey on 5G millimeter wave communications for UAV-assisted wireless networks

L Zhang, H Zhao, S Hou, Z Zhao, H Xu, X Wu… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received considerable attention from
regulators, industry and research community, due to rapid growth in a broad range of …

A unified spatial framework for UAV-aided mmWave networks

W Yi, Y Liu, E Bodanese, A Nallanathan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, we propose
a unified three-dimensional (3D) spatial framework in this paper to model a general case …

Enabling UAV cellular with millimeter-wave communication: Potentials and approaches

Z Xiao, P Xia, XG Xia - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To support high data rate urgent or ad hoc communications, we consider mmWave UAV
cellular networks and the associated challenges and solutions. To enable fast beamforming …

Multiple access mmWave design for UAV-aided 5G communications

L Wang, YL Che, J Long, L Duan… - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have tremendous potential to improve wireless network
capacity, but are challenging to operate in ultra-dense networks, mainly due to the strong …

Efficient deployment with geometric analysis for mmWave UAV communications

J Zhao, J Liu, J Jiang, F Gao - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications with mmWave band is a promising
candidate for future communication systems due to its high reliability, excellent flexibility and …

Millimeter-wave base stations in the sky: An experimental study of UAV-to-ground communications

SG Sanchez, S Mohanti, D Jaisinghani… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper adopts a systems approach to study how millimeter wave (mmWave) radio
transmitters on UAVs provide high throughput links under typical hovering conditions. With …

The role of unmanned aerial vehicles and mmWave in 5G: Recent advances and challenges

SK Khan, U Naseem, H Siraj, I Razzak… - Transactions on …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Next‐generation wireless communication networks, in particular, the densified 5G will bring
many developments to the existing telecommunications industry. The key benefits will be the …