Drone-small-cell-assisted resource slicing for 5G uplink radio access networks

H Shen, Q Ye, W Zhuang, W Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio resource slicing is critical to customize service provisioning in fifth-generation (5G)
uplink radio access networks (RANs). Using drone-small-cells (DSCs) as aerial support for …

Unmanned aerial vehicles integrated HetNet for smart dense urban area

A Gupta, SK Gupta, M Rashid, A Khan… - Transactions on …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the massive growth of mobile users, the demand for data traffic along with coverage
enhancement has significantly increased and put a significant burden on the pre‐existing …

Post-disaster unmanned aerial vehicle base station deployment method based on artificial bee colony algorithm

J Li, D Lu, G Zhang, J Tian, Y Pang - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground-based communication facilities are at risk of being destroyed after natural disasters,
such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, or terrorist attacks. Unmanned …

Cache-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles for cooperative cognitive radio networks

J Yang, S Xiao, B Jiang, H Song… - IEEE wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative cognitive radio network is a new method to alleviate the spectrum scarcity
problem. Proactive content caching and UAV relaying techniques are deployed in a CRN, to …

Energy efficiency and hover time optimization in UAV-based HetNets

ST Muntaha, SA Hassan, H Jung… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate the downlink performance of a three-tier heterogeneous
network (HetNet). The objective is to enhance the edge capacity of a macro cell by …

UAV-assisted emergency communications in social IoT: A dynamic hypergraph coloring approach

B Wang, Y Sun, Z Sun, LD Nguyen… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we address the social-awareness property and unmanned-aerial-vehicle
(UAV)-assisted information diffusion in emergency scenarios, where UAVs can disseminate …

Location optimization and user association for unmanned aerial vehicles assisted mobile networks

Y Sun, T Wang, S Wang - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To meet the rapid growth of diverse traffic demand in mobile networks, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) are proposed to support terrestrial networks by carrying base stations …

Packet-level throughput analysis and energy efficiency optimization for uav-assisted iab heterogeneous cellular networks

Y Zhang, H Shan, M Song, HH Yang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the packet-level throughput and energy efficiency of millimeter-
wave unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated access and backhaul (IAB) …

3D drone base station placement and resource allocation with FSO-based backhaul in hotspots

S Zhang, N Ansari - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying a Drone Base Station (DBS) over a hotspot area is a promising solution to
improve the user Quality of Service (QoS) by helping the Macro Base Station (MBS) transmit …

Improving distributed anti-flocking algorithm for dynamic coverage of mobile wireless networks with obstacle avoidance

GG Wang, CL Wei, Y Wang, W Pedrycz - Knowledge-based systems, 2021 - Elsevier
The mobile wireless networks (MWNs) are flexible and scalable. They have been widely
used in large-scale monitoring, search and rescue tasks, pursuit and escape operations and …