Unmanned aerial vehicle with underlaid device-to-device communications: Performance and tradeoffs

M Mozaffari, W Saad, M Bennis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the deployment of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a flying base station
used to provide the fly wireless communications to a given geographical area is analyzed. In …

Joint power, altitude, location and bandwidth optimization for UAV with underlaid D2D communications

W Huang, Z Yang, C Pan, L Pei, M Chen… - IEEE Wireless …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we aim to maximize the rate of a device-to-device (D2D) pair for a downlink
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided wireless communication system, where D2D users …

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle base stations for optimal quality of coverage

AV Savkin, H Huang - IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter studies the network performance improvement by deploying flying base stations
mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV-BSs) during some occasional events …

Probabilistic cache placement in UAV-assisted networks with D2D connections: Performance analysis and trajectory optimization

J Ji, K Zhu, D Niyato, R Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the exponential growth of data traffic, caching is regarded as a promising solution to
combine with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted networks, which can offload cellular …

Transceiver design and multihop D2D for UAV IoT coverage in disasters

X Liu, Z Li, N Zhao, W Meng, G Gui… - IEEE Internet of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When natural disasters strike, the coverage for Internet of Things (IoT) may be severely
destroyed, due to the damaged communications infrastructure. Unmanned aerial vehicles …

Optimal deployments of UAVs with directional antennas for a power-efficient coverage

J Guo, P Walk, H Jafarkhani - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To provide a reliable wireless uplink for users in a given ground area, one can deploy
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as base stations (BSs). In another application, one can …

Trajectory design for throughput maximization in UAV-assisted communication system

N Gupta, S Agarwal, D Mishra - IEEE Transactions on Green …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communication system to
provide service to the ground users. We address the problem of UAV deployment in three …

Coverage analysis for low-altitude UAV networks in urban environments

B Galkin, J Kibilda, LA DaSilva - GLOBECOM 2017-2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless access points on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being considered for
mobile service provisioning in commercial networks. To be able to efficiently use these …

Common throughput maximization in UAV-enabled OFDMA systems with delay consideration

Q Wu, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as communication platforms is of great
significance in future wireless networks, especially for on-demand deployment in temporary …

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 …