UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges

B Alzahrani, OS Oubbati, A Barnawi… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology with the potential to
be used in industries and various sectors of human life to provide a wide range of …

Internet of flying things (IoFT): A survey

S Zaidi, M Atiquzzaman, CT Calafate - Computer Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently received significant attention by
the civilian and military community, mostly due to the fast growth of UAV technologies …

Multi-agent DRL for task offloading and resource allocation in multi-UAV enabled IoT edge network

AM Seid, GO Boateng, B Mareri… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) edge network has connected lots of heterogeneous smart
devices, thanks to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their groundbreaking emerging …

SecAuthUAV: A novel authentication scheme for UAV-ground station and UAV-UAV communication

T Alladi, G Bansal, V Chamola… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming very popular nowadays due to the
emergence of application areas such as the Internet of Drones (IoD). They are finding wide …

Collaborative computation offloading and resource allocation in multi-UAV-assisted IoT networks: A deep reinforcement learning approach

AM Seid, GO Boateng, S Anokye… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, Edge-Internet-of-Things (EIoT) devices are
envisioned to generate huge amounts of data. Due to the limitation of computation capacity …

LVBS: Lightweight vehicular blockchain for secure data sharing in disaster rescue

Z Su, Y Wang, Q Xu, N Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In disaster areas, a large amount of data (eg, rescue commands, road damage, and rescue
experience) should be delivered among ground rescuing vehicles for safe driving and …

UAV-relaying-assisted secure transmission with caching

F Cheng, G Gui, N Zhao, Y Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be utilized as a relay to connect nodes with long
distance, which can achieve significant throughput gain owing to its mobility and line-of-sight …

Millimeter-wave full-duplex UAV relay: Joint positioning, beamforming, and power control

L Zhu, J Zhang, Z Xiao, X Cao, XG Xia… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a full-duplex unmanned aerial vehicle (FD-UAV) relay is employed to increase
the communication capacity of millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. Large antenna arrays …

Security enhancement for NOMA-UAV networks

N Zhao, Y Li, S Zhang, Y Chen, W Lu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to its distinctive merits, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) techniques have
been utilized in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled wireless base stations to provide …

Emerging UAV technology for disaster detection, mitigation, response, and preparedness

A Khan, S Gupta, SK Gupta - Journal of Field Robotics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant interest
in research groups due to the wide range of applications, such as disaster surveillance and …