A survey on cellular-connected UAVs: Design challenges, enabling 5G/B5G innovations, and experimental advancements

D Mishra, E Natalizio - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
As an emerging field of aerial robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained
significant research interest within the wireless networking research community. As soon as …

A NOMA-enabled framework for relay deployment and network optimization in double-layer airborne access VANETs

Y He, L Nie, T Guo, K Kaur… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enabled double-layer airborne access vehicular
ad hoc networks (DLAA-VANETs) architecture is designed in this paper, which consists of a …

Energy-saving deployment optimization and resource management for UAV-assisted wireless sensor networks with NOMA

D Zhai, C Wang, R Zhang, H Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-saving techniques are vital for the battery-powered sensor devices (SDs), which
affect their lifetime. In this paper, we propose an air-and-ground cooperative wireless sensor …

Energy minimization for cellular-connected UAV: From optimization to deep reinforcement learning

C Zhan, Y Zeng - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to become integral
components of future cellular networks. To this end, one of the important problems to …

Deep reinforcement learning-based joint task and energy offloading in UAV-aided 6G intelligent edge networks

Z Cheng, M Liwang, N Chen, L Huang, X Du… - Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Edge networks are expected to play an important role in 6G where machine learning-based
methods are widely applied, which promote the concept of Edge Intelligence. Meanwhile …

Energy-efficient data uploading for cellular-connected UAV systems

C Zhan, Y Zeng - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into cellular networks offers a promising
solution to support their efficient operations and achieve high-quality communication with …

Application of NOMA for cellular-connected UAVs: Opportunities and challenges

WK New, CY Leow, K Navaie, Y Sun, Z Ding - Science China Information …, 2021 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained considerable interests in numerous civil
applications. To push forward its potentials, cellular-connected UAVs have been introduced …

Unmanned Autonomous Intelligent System in 6G Non-Terrestrial Network

X Wang, Y Guo, Y Gao - Information, 2024 - mdpi.com
Non-terrestrial network (NTN) is a trending topic in the field of communication, as it shows
promise for scenarios in which terrestrial infrastructure is unavailable. Unmanned …

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 …

Uplink and downlink NOMA transmission using full-duplex UAV

DT Do, TTT Nguyen, TN Nguyen, X Li, M Voznak - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided non-orthogonal multiple access
(NOMA) network along with uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) transmissions is investigated. A …