UAV assisted heterogeneous networks for public safety communications

A Merwaday, I Guvenc - 2015 IEEE wireless communications …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communications play an important role during public safety operations. Since the current
communication technologies heavily rely on the backbone network, the failure of base …

Improved throughput coverage in natural disasters: Unmanned aerial base stations for public-safety communications

A Merwaday, A Tuncer, A Kumbhar… - IEEE vehicular …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communications play an important role during public-safety operations. Because the current
communication technologies heavily rely on the backbone network, the failure of base …

UAV-assisted emergency networks in disasters

N Zhao, W Lu, M Sheng, Y Chen, J Tang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliable and flexible emergency communication is a key challenge for search and rescue in
the event of disasters, especially for the case when base stations are no longer functioning …

UAV-assisted disaster management: Applications and open issues

M Erdelj, E Natalizio - 2016 international conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fast-paced development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and their use in different
domains, opens a new paradigm on their use in natural disaster management. In UAV …

Connectivity versus area coverage in unmanned aerial vehicle networks

E Yanmaz - 2012 IEEE International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the area coverage and connectivity of an autonomous, unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) network, whose goal is to monitor and sense a given area of interest in an …

On the topological aspects of UAV-assisted post-disaster wireless communication networks

M Matracia, MA Kishk, MS Alouini - IEEE Communications …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the context of sixth-generation (6G) networks, emergency management systems based on
wireless communications have recently gained increasing interest. Hereby, fundamentals …

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 …

Connectivity stability in autonomous multi-level UAV swarms for wide area monitoring

G Danoy, MR Brust, P Bouvry - Proceedings of the 5th ACM symposium …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Many different types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been developed to address a
variety of applications ranging from searching and mapping to surveillance. However, for …

Cellular connectivity for UAVs: Network modeling, performance analysis, and design guidelines

MM Azari, F Rosas, S Pollin - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing use of aerial user equipments (UEs) in various applications requires ubiquitous
and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these devices and …

An adaptive UAV deployment scheme for emergency networking

N Lin, Y Liu, L Zhao, DO Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the areas after natural disaster strikes, the ground communication network can be failed,
due to the damage of the communication infrastructure. However, during or after the natural …