The dynamic uncertain environment and complex tasks determine that the unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) system is bound to develop towards clustering, autonomy, and intelligence. In …

Electrification turned over a new leaf in aviation by introducing new types of aerial vehicles
along with new means of transportation. Addressing a plethora of use cases, drones are …

Digital twin can be defined as a virtual representation of a physical asset enabled through
data and simulators for real-time prediction, optimization, monitoring, controlling, and …

A digital twin can be defined as an adaptive model of a complex physical system. Recent
advances in computational pipelines, multiphysics solvers, artificial intelligence, big data …

Reliable and efficient networks are the trend for next-generation wireless communications.
Recent improved hardware technologies-known as Large Intelligent Surfaces (LISs)-have …

The growing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) with the requirements of highly reliable and
low latency has imposed huge challenges to current cellular networks. Using small aerial …

In this paper, we jointly consider the downlink simultaneous wireless information and power
transfer (SWIPT) and uplink information transmission in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) …

Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as the base station is a recent progress and a
promising solution to assist cellular networks to improve coverage. In this paper, an …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be extensively utilized in various Internet of Things
(IoT) scenarios due to their flexible mobility and rapid on-demand deployment. It becomes …

In this paper, we establish a foundation for the multi-layer aerial networks (MANs), which are
modeled as K layer aerial networks (ANs), where each layer has unmanned aerial vehicles …