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 …

Reliability theory and practice for unmanned aerial vehicles

L Xing, BW Johnson - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to rapid advancements on the Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), also known as drones, are transforming numerous military and civil application …

Resource management for transmit power minimization in UAV-assisted RIS HetNets supported by dual connectivity

A Khalili, EM Monfared, S Zargari… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel approach to improve the performance of a heterogeneous
network (HetNet) supported by dual connectivity (DC) by adopting multiple unmanned aerial …

NOMA enhanced hybrid RIS-UAV-assisted full-duplex communication system with imperfect SIC and CSI

SK Singh, K Agrawal, K Singh, CP Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we consider a hybrid aerial full-duplex (FD) relaying protocol consisting of a
reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) mounted over an FD unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) …

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 …

Height optimization and resource allocation for NOMA enhanced UAV-aided relay networks

D Zhai, H Li, X Tang, R Zhang, Z Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the application of the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
technique into the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided relay networks. Specifically, we first …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on energy optimization techniques in UAV-based cellular networks: from conventional to machine learning approaches

AI Abubakar, I Ahmad, KG Omeke, M Ozturk, C Ozturk… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wireless communication networks have been witnessing unprecedented demand due to the
increasing number of connected devices and emerging bandwidth-hungry applications …

Computation bits maximization in UAV-enabled mobile-edge computing system

L Lyu, F Zeng, Z Xiao, C Zhang, H Jiang… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in various
industries (eg, search and rescue, express delivery, etc.) due to their high flexibility. In …

Multi-agent reinforcement learning in NOMA-aided UAV networks for cellular offloading

R Zhong, X Liu, Y Liu, Y Chen - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel framework is proposed for cellular offloading with the aid of multiple unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs), while non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique is …

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 …