Cooperative UAV cluster-assisted terrestrial cellular networks for ubiquitous coverage

H Wu, X Tao, N Zhang, X Shen - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), featured by flexible configuration, robust deployment,
and line-of-sight links, has a great potential to provide ubiquitous wireless coverage and …

Optimal deployment of tethered drones for maximum cellular coverage in user clusters

OM Bushnaq, MA Kishk, A Celik… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently received a significant interest to assist
terrestrial wireless networks thanks to their strong line-of-sight links and flexible/instant …

Performance evaluation of UAV-enabled cellular networks with battery-limited drones

Y Qin, MA Kishk, MS Alouini - IEEE Communications Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as flying base stations (BSs) to offload
Macro-BSs in hotspots. However, due to the limited battery on-board, UAVs can typically …

A near-optimal UAV-aided radio coverage strategy for dense urban areas

X Li, H Yao, J Wang, X Xu, C Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may be used for providing seamless network coverage in
urban areas for improving the performance of conventional cellular networks. Given the …

Mobility in the sky: Performance and mobility analysis for cellular-connected UAVs

R Amer, W Saad, N Marchetti - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipment (UAV-UE), such as
drones or flying taxis, is a major challenge for tomorrow's cellular systems. In this paper, the …

Deployment and association of multiple UAVs in UAV-assisted cellular networks with the knowledge of statistical user position

L Wang, H Zhang, S Guo, D Yuan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying relays is becoming an indispensable
strategy to assist terrestrial cellular networks to enhance coverage. One challenging …

Aerial base station deployment in 6G cellular networks using tethered drones: The mobility and endurance tradeoff

M Kishk, A Bader, MS Alouini - IEEE Vehicular Technology …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Airborne base stations (BSs)(carried by drones) have a great potential to enhance the
coverage and capacity of 6G cellular networks. However, one of the main challenges facing …

Coverage analysis for UAV-assisted cellular networks in rural areas

M Matracia, MA Kishk, MS Alouini - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite enhancement in rural areas is one of the main requirements in next generations of
wireless networks (ie, 5G and 6G), the low expected profit prevents telecommunication …

Deployment of heterogeneous UAV base stations for optimal quality of coverage

H Huang, AV Savkin - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the quality of coverage of deploying flying base stations mounted on
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV-BSs) after disasters or during some occasional events. In …

Coverage probability analysis of UAV cellular networks in urban environments

L Zhou, Z Yang, S Zhou… - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study coverage probabilities of the UAV-assisted cellular network modeled
by 2-dimension (2D) Poisson point process. The cellular user is assumed to connect to the …