A comprehensive overview on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: From communications to sensing and intelligence

Q Wu, J Xu, Y Zeng, DWK Ng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular
infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and …

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 …

What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? A flight from 5G to 6G

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, MM Azari… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address
such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and …

Accessing from the sky: A tutorial on UAV communications for 5G and beyond

Y Zeng, Q Wu, R Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to
bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling …

Survey on UAV cellular communications: Practical aspects, standardization advancements, regulation, and security challenges

A Fotouhi, H Qiang, M Ding, M Hassan… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is creating promising new
business opportunities for cellular operators. On the one hand, UAVs can be connected to …

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 …

Energy minimization for wireless communication with rotary-wing UAV

Y Zeng, J Xu, R Zhang - IEEE transactions on wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communication, where
a rotary-wing UAV is dispatched to communicate with multiple ground nodes (GNs). We aim …

Cellular-connected UAV: Potential, challenges, and promising technologies

Y Zeng, J Lyu, R Zhang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enabling high-rate, low-latency and ultra-reliable wireless communications between UAVs
and their associated ground pilots/users is of paramount importance to realize their large …

A survey of channel modeling for UAV communications

AA Khuwaja, Y Chen, N Zhao… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in rapid deployment for both
civil and military applications. UAV communication has its own distinctive channel …

Reinforcement learning in multiple-UAV networks: Deployment and movement design

X Liu, Y Liu, Y Chen - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel framework is proposed for quality of experience driven deployment and dynamic
movement of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The problem of joint non-convex …