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 …

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 …

UAV communications for 5G and beyond: Recent advances and future trends

B Li, Z Fei, Y Zhang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing ubiquitous connectivity to diverse device types is the key challenge for 5G and
beyond 5G (B5G). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important …

AoI-minimal trajectory planning and data collection in UAV-assisted wireless powered IoT networks

H Hu, K Xiong, G Qu, Q Ni, P Fan… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless powered
Internet-of-Things system, where a UAV takes off from a data center, flies to each of the …

UAV-assisted wireless powered cooperative mobile edge computing: Joint offloading, CPU control, and trajectory optimization

Y Liu, K Xiong, Q Ni, P Fan… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered
cooperative mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a UAV installed with an energy …

Cellular-enabled UAV communication: A connectivity-constrained trajectory optimization perspective

S Zhang, Y Zeng, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network is envisioned to
be a promising technology to significantly enhance the communication performance of both …

Energy efficient UAV communication with energy harvesting

Z Yang, W Xu, M Shikh-Bahaei - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communication
system with energy harvesting, where the UAV transfers energy to the users in half duplex or …

Joint resources and workflow scheduling in UAV-enabled wirelessly-powered MEC for IoT systems

Y Du, K Yang, K Wang, G Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers a UAV-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a UAV
first powers the Internet of things device (IoTD) by utilizing Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) …

RIS-assisted UAV communications for IoT with wireless power transfer using deep reinforcement learning

KK Nguyen, A Masaracchia, V Sharma… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many of the devices used in Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications are energy-limited, and
thus supplying energy while maintaining seamless connectivity for IoT devices is of …

Intelligent ubiquitous network accessibility for wireless-powered MEC in UAV-assisted B5G

J Wang, C Jin, Q Tang, NN Xiong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing the ubiquitous network accessibility is the key goal for 5G and Beyond 5G (B5G)
networks. As the number of devices and data increase, ensuring the Quality of Service (QoS) …