A comprehensive overview on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: From communications to sensing and intelligence

Q Wu, J Xu, Y Zeng, DWK Ng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular
infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and …

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 …

Accessing from the sky: A tutorial on UAV communications for 5G and beyond

Y Zeng, Q Wu, R Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to
bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling …

UAV swarm intelligence: Recent advances and future trends

Y Zhou, B Rao, W Wang - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dynamic uncertain environment and complex tasks determine that the unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) system is bound to develop towards clustering, autonomy, and intelligence. In …

Secure communications for UAV-enabled mobile edge computing systems

Y Zhou, C Pan, PL Yeoh, K Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a secure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mobile edge computing
(MEC) system where multiple ground users offload large computing tasks to a nearby …

Unmanned aerial vehicle communications for civil applications: A review

M Ghamari, P Rangel, M Mehrubeoglu… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly
increased across a variety of applications over the past few years. This is due to the rapid …

Balancing QoS and security in the edge: Existing practices, challenges, and 6G opportunities with machine learning

ZM Fadlullah, B Mao, N Kato - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the emerging 6G networks are anticipated to meet the high-end service quality
demands of the mobile edge users in terms of data rate and delay satisfaction, new attack …

An extensive survey on the Internet of Drones

P Boccadoro, D Striccoli, LA Grieco - Ad Hoc Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Internet of Drones (IoD) recently gained momentum due to its high adaptability
to a wide variety of complex scenarios. Indeed, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can …

Joint optimization of a UAV's trajectory and transmit power for covert communications

X Zhou, S Yan, J Hu, J Sun, J Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers covert communications in the context of unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) networks, aiming to hide a UAV for transmitting critical information out of an area that …

Smart and secure wireless communications via reflecting intelligent surfaces: A short survey

A Almohamad, AM Tahir, A Al-Kababji… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, wireless connectivity should
be more ubiquitous than ever. In fact, the availability of wireless connection everywhere …