UAV-to-UAV communications in cellular networks

MM Azari, G Geraci… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a cellular network deployment where UAV-to-UAV (U2U) transmit-receive pairs
share the same spectrum with the uplink (UL) of cellular ground users (GUEs). For this …

[HTML][HTML] Non-Terrestrial UAV clients for beyond 5G networks: A comprehensive survey

MMH Qazzaz, SA Zaidi, D McLernon, AM Hayajneh… - Ad Hoc Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid proliferation of consumer UAVs, or drones, is reshaping the wireless
communication landscape. These agile, autonomous devices find new life as UE in cellular …

ArduSim: Accurate and real-time multicopter simulation

F Fabra, CT Calafate, JC Cano, P Manzoni - Simulation Modelling Practice …, 2018 - Elsevier
As the popularity and the number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) increases, new
protocols are needed to coordinate UAVs when flying autonomously, and to avoid that these …

MUSCOP: Mission-based UAV swarm coordination protocol

F Fabra, W Zamora, P Reyes, JA Sanguesa… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become the preferred, and sometimes
the only support tool when facing critical scenarios such as earthquakes, search and rescue …

A location-aware waypoint-based routing protocol for airborne DTNs in search and rescue scenarios

A Bujari, CT Calafate, JC Cano, P Manzoni, CE Palazzi… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we propose GeoSaW, a delay-tolerant routing protocol for Airborne Networks
in Search and Rescue scenarios. The protocol exploits the geographical information of …

A novel resilient and reconfigurable swarm management scheme

J Wubben, F Fabra, CT Calafate, JC Cano… - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
As we witness the fast growth of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) field, new
applications and services emerge at a rapid pace. Above all, the interest in groups of UAVs …

On the impact of inter-UAV communications interference in the 2.4 GHz band

F Fabra, CT Calafate, JC Cano… - 2017 13th international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) increases, protocols to avoid collisions
between them, and to achieve collaboration through swarm-based configurations, are …

Location-aware beamforming for MIMO-enabled UAV communications: An unknown input observer approach

A Mohammadi, M Rahmati, H Malik - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous communications and networking challenges prevent deploying unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) in extreme environments where the existing wireless technologies are …

Collisionless fast pattern formation mechanism for dynamic number of UAVs

G Raja, VS Saran, S Anbalagan… - … 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an emerging technology that assists in various
automated activities where human involvement is minimal. Though individual UAVs are …

Experiments on drone-to-drone communication with wi-fi, lte-a, and 5g

A Fakhreddine, C Raffelsberger… - 2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates by real-world experiments the throughput and latency of drone-to-
drone communications using different wireless technologies. Direct air-to-air links via Wi-Fi …