Survey on UAV cellular communications: Practical aspects, standardization advancements, regulation, and security challenges

A Fotouhi, H Qiang, M Ding, M Hassan… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is creating promising new
business opportunities for cellular operators. On the one hand, UAVs can be connected to …

Secrecy rate analysis of UAV-enabled mmWave networks using Matérn hardcore point processes

Y Zhu, G Zheng, M Fitch - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communications aided by low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as
an effective solution to provide large coverage and dynamic capacity for both military and …

Optimal base station antenna downtilt in downlink cellular networks

J Yang, M Ding, G Mao, Z Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Very recent studies showed that the area spectral efficiency (ASE) of downlink cellular
networks will continuously decrease and finally crash to zero as the base station (BS) …

Flying drone base stations for macro hotspots

A Fotouhi, M Ding, M Hassan - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study a scenario where multiple drone-mounted base stations cruise freely over a macro
hotspot to serve mobile users on the ground. The drone base stations move constantly and …

UAV-Assisted Communications With RF Energy Harvesting: A Comprehensive Survey

GK Pandey, DS Gurjar, S Yadav… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently achieved sky-rocketed prominence in
assisting various wireless communication scenarios due to their implicit characteristics like …

Downlink cellular network analysis with LOS/NLOS propagation and elevated base stations

I Atzeni, J Arnau, M Kountouris - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the downlink performance of dense cellular networks with
elevated base stations (BSs) using a channel model that incorporates lineof-sight (LOS)/non …

SINR and throughput of dense cellular networks with stretched exponential path loss

A AlAmmouri, JG Andrews… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distance-based attenuation is a critical aspect of wireless communications. As opposed to
the ubiquitous powerlaw path loss model, this paper proposes a stretched exponential path …

A reinforcement learning approach for fair user coverage using UAV mounted base stations under energy constraints

HV Abeywickrama, Y He, E Dutkiewicz… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining popularity in many aspects of wireless
communication systems. UAV-mounted mobile base stations (UAV-BSs) are an effective and …

DroneCells: Improving spectral efficiency using drone-mounted flying base stations

A Fotouhi, M Ding, M Hassan - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
We study a networking scenario for 5G and beyond, called DroneCells, where miniaturized
base stations (BSs) are mounted on flying drones to serve mobile users. We propose that …

On the fundamental characteristics of ultra-dense small cell networks

M Ding, D Lopez-Perez, H Claussen… - IEEE Network, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to cope with the forecasted 1000× increase in wireless capacity demands by 2030,
network operators will aggressively densify their network infrastructure to reuse the spectrum …