A survey on UAV-assisted wireless communications: Recent advances and future trends

X Gu, G Zhang - Computer Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their characteristics of mobility, flexibility and adaptive altitude, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have immense potential applications in wireless …

A survey on unmanned aerial vehicle relaying networks

B Li, S Zhao, R Miao, R Zhang - IET communications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the explosive growth of data communications, existing infrastructure networks are
under ever‐increasing pressure. Due to the advantages of fully controllable mobility, rapid …

Full-duplex UAV relaying for multiple user pairs

B Li, S Zhao, R Zhang, L Yang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Based on the advantages of small size, lightweight, as well as flexible deployment and
recycling, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been more and more widely used in military …

Extensive throughput enhancement for 5G-enabled UAV swarm networking

J Wang, Y Liu, S Niu, H Song - IEEE Journal on Miniaturization …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ubiquitous deployment of 5G New Radio (5G NR) accelerates the evolution in many
fields. With the enhancement of 5G NR, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm networking …

The meta distribution of SINR in UAV-assisted cellular networks

M Shi, K Yang, D Niyato, H Yuan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mounting compact and lightweight base stations on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a
cost-effective and flexible solution to provide seamless coverage on the existing terrestrial …

Intelligent UAV deployment for a disaster-resilient wireless network

H Hydher, DNK Jayakody, KT Hemachandra… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (ABSs) has been
considered to be a feasible solution to provide network coverage in scenarios where the …

Performance modeling and analysis of base station cooperation for cellular-connected UAV networks

Z Wang, J Zheng - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the performance of base station (BS) cooperation for the downlink
transmission of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a cellular-connected UAV network …

Joint transmit power and trajectory optimization for two-way multihop UAV relaying networks

B Li, S Zhao, R Zhang, L Yang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been more and more widely used in military and
civilian, with its unique advantages of flexibility, convenience, and wide coverage. As flying …

Coverage analysis for UAV-assisted mmWave cellular networks using Poisson hole process

X Guo, C Zhang, F Yu, H Chen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To reduce strong mutual interference between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and
ground base stations (GBSs) and to balance the quality of service (QoS) of cell-center and …

A 3D tractable model for UAV-enabled cellular networks with multiple antennas

CH Liu, DC Liang, MA Syed… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to propose a three-dimensional (3D) point process that can be employed to
generally deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a large-scale 3D cellular network and …