Space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN), as an integration of satellite systems, aerial
networks, and terrestrial communications, has been becoming an emerging architecture and …

Undoubtedly, the age of big data has opened new options for natural disaster management,
primarily because of the varied possibilities it provides in visualizing, analyzing, and …

Small drones are being utilized in monitoring, transport, safety and disaster management,
and other domains. Envisioning that drones form autonomous networks incorporated into …

Due to the flying nature of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), it is very attractive to deploy
UAVs as aerial base stations and construct airborne networks to provide service for on …

A swarm of autonomous flying robots is implemented in simulation to cooperatively gather
situational awareness data during the first few hours after a major natural disaster. In …

This paper proposes deployment strategies for consumer unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
to maximize the stationary coverage of a target area and to guarantee the continuity of the …

In this letter, we investigate the secrecy performance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-
to-UAV system, where a UAV acts as the source () transmitting information to a legitimate …

Due to the unpredictability of natural disasters, whenever a catastrophe happens, it is vital
that not only emergency rescue teams are prepared, but also that there is a functional …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are being increasingly used in a broad range of
applications requiring extensive communications, either to interconnect the UAVs with each …

The ever-increasing demand for flexible and portable communications has led to a rapid
evolution in networking between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) often referred to as flying …