Cellular, wide-area, and non-terrestrial IoT: A survey on 5G advances and the road toward 6G

M Vaezi, A Azari, SR Khosravirad… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next wave of wireless technologies is proliferating in connecting things among
themselves as well as to humans. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of …

Evolution of non-terrestrial networks from 5G to 6G: A survey

MM Azari, S Solanki, S Chatzinotas… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) traditionally have certain limited applications. However, the
recent technological advancements and manufacturing cost reduction opened up myriad …

A survey on millimeter-wave beamforming enabled UAV communications and networking

Z Xiao, L Zhu, Y Liu, P Yi, R Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military
applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for …

Innovative trends in the 6G era: A comprehensive survey of architecture, applications, technologies, and challenges

VK Quy, A Chehri, NM Quy, ND Han, NT Ban - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the fifth-generation mobile network is being commercialized worldwide, researchers
have recently started looking towards the next generation, called the 6G network. Unlike 5G …

Sionna: An open-source library for next-generation physical layer research

J Hoydis, S Cammerer, FA Aoudia, A Vem… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Sionna is a GPU-accelerated open-source library for link-level simulations based on
TensorFlow. It enables the rapid prototyping of complex communication system architectures …

Terahertz communications and sensing for 6G and beyond: A comprehensive review

W Jiang, Q Zhou, J He, MA Habibi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next-generation cellular technologies, commonly referred to as the sixth generation (6G),
are envisioned to support a higher system capacity, better performance, and network …

Full-duplex wireless for 6G: Progress brings new opportunities and challenges

B Smida, A Sabharwal, G Fodor… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of in-band full-duplex (FD) enables nodes to simultaneously transmit and receive
on the same frequency band, which challenges the traditional assumption in wireless …

Towards autonomous multi-UAV wireless network: A survey of reinforcement learning-based approaches

Y Bai, H Zhao, X Zhang, Z Chang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based wireless networks have received increasing
research interest in recent years and are gradually being utilized in various aspects of our …

Toward 6G with connected sky: UAVs and beyond

M Mozaffari, X Lin, S Hayes - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The large-scale and ever-growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a wide range
of applications is foreseen to be a major part of beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks in the …

A survey on UAV-aided maritime communications: Deployment considerations, applications, and future challenges

N Nomikos, PK Gkonis, PS Bithas… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maritime activities represent a major domain of economic growth with several emerging
maritime Internet of Things use cases, such as smart ports, autonomous navigation, and …