Latency aware 3D placement and user association in drone-assisted heterogeneous networks with FSO-based backhaul

S Zhang, N Ansari - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drone Base Station (DBS) is expected to play an important role in next generation cellular
networks due to its maneuverability in establishing air-to-ground Line of Sight (LoS) links …

Post-flood UAV-based free space optics recovery communications with spatial mode diversity

A Amphawan, N Arsad, TK Neo, MB Jasser… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for free space optical communications
is an attractive solution for forwarding the vital health information of victims from a flood …

Architecture for drone assisted emergency ad-hoc network for disaster rescue operations

S Ganesh, V Gopalasamy… - … systems & networks …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a disaster situation, the first 72 hours are very critical but most of times, the first responders
are not able to contact those affected immediately. This can be due to lack of connectivity …

Visible light communication on LED-equipped drone and object-detecting camera for post-disaster monitoring

H Takano, D Hisano, M Nakahara… - 2021 IEEE 93rd …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes the concept of a visible light communication (VLC) system with LED-
mounted drones for post-disaster monitoring and reports the results of the experimental …

MAPPO-based cooperative UAV trajectory design with long-range emergency communications in disaster areas

Y Guan, S Zou, K Li, W Ni, B Wu - 2023 IEEE 24th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the cooperative real-time trajectory design issue for multiple
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to support long-range emergency communications in …

FSO as backhaul and energizer for drone-assisted mobile access networks

N Ansari, D Wu, X Sun - ICT Express, 2020 - Elsevier
Drone mounted base stations (DBSs) can be flexibly deployed over some areas (such as
hotspots and disaster struck areas) to speed up the communication between terrestrial base …

Drones as internet of video things front-end sensors: challenges and opportunities

CW Chen - Discover Internet of Things, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Internet of Video Things (IoVT) has become an emerging class of IoT systems that
are equipped with visual sensors at the front end. Most of such visual sensors are fixed one …

On optimizing the divergence angle of an FSO-based fronthaul link in drone-assisted mobile networks

T Zhang, X Sun, C Wang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a free space optics (FSO)-based drone-assisted mobile network, a drone-mounted base
station (DBS) can be rapidly deployed over a place of interest to relay traffic between …

[PDF][PDF] 空天地一体化无线光通信网络关键技术及其发展趋势

赵雄文, 张钰, 秦鹏, 王晓晴, 耿绥燕, 宋俊元, 刘瑶… - 电子学报, 2022 - ejournal.org.cn
构建空天地一体化信息网络是第六代通信系统(the Sixth Generation, 6G) 的重要目标,
无线光通信相较于射频(Radio Frequency, RF) 通信技术具有容量大, 速率高 …

Overview of vehicle optical wireless communications

H Mei, J Ding, J Zheng, X Chen, W Liu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective information transmission between vehicles has become one of the solutions to
improve road safety. Based on the huge advantages of optical wireless data transmission …