A hybrid communication scheme for efficient and low-cost deployment of future flying ad-hoc network (FANET)

MA Khan, IM Qureshi, F Khanzada - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent years, FANET-related research and development has doubled, due to the
increased demands of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in both military and civilian …

How to ensure reliable connectivity for aerial vehicles over cellular networks

HC Nguyen, R Amorim, J Wigard, IZ Kovács… - Ieee …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Widely deployed cellular networks are an attractive solution to provide large scale radio
connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicles. One main prerequisite is that co-existence and …

Computation efficiency maximization and QoE-provisioning in UAV-enabled MEC communication systems

Z Hu, F Zeng, Z Xiao, B Fu, H Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the traditional mobile edge computing (MEC) server is fixed at the edge of the
network, it is likely to cause severe propagation loss between the edge server and users …

Planning the future of smart cities with swarms of fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles using a novel framework

K Kuru - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The autonomy of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-self-governing in the aerospace
discipline has been a remarkable research area with the development of the advanced …

Understanding UAV cellular communications: From existing networks to massive MIMO

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, LG Giordano… - Ieee …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purpose of this paper is to bestow the reader with a timely study of UAV cellular
communications, bridging the gap between the 3GPP standardization status quo and the …

Deep reinforcement learning for interference-aware path planning of cellular-connected UAVs

U Challita, W Saad, C Bettstetter - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an interference-aware path planning scheme for a network of cellular-
connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proposed. In particular, each UAV acts as a …

Joint cache placement, flight trajectory, and transmission power optimization for multi-UAV assisted wireless networks

J Ji, K Zhu, D Niyato, R Wang - IEEE Transactions on wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is well known that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can help terrestrial base stations
(BSs) offload data traffic from crowded areas to improve coverage and boost throughput …

Multi-beam UAV communication in cellular uplink: Cooperative interference cancellation and sum-rate maximization

L Liu, S Zhang, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network as new aerial users is
a promising solution to meet their ever-increasing communication demands in a plethora of …

A survey of prototype and experiment for UAV communications

Q Song, Y Zeng, J Xu, S Jin - Science China Information Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have attracted significant attention from
both academia and industry. To facilitate the large-scale usage of UAVs for various …

RIS-aided ground-aerial NOMA communications: A distributionally robust DRL approach

J Zhao, L Yu, K Cai, Y Zhu, Z Han - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided air-to-ground uplink non-orthogonal
transmission framework is investigated for next generation multiple access. Occupying the …