A survey on millimeter-wave beamforming enabled UAV communications and networking

Z Xiao, L Zhu, Y Liu, P Yi, R Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military
applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for …

Digital twins in unmanned aerial vehicles for rapid medical resource delivery in epidemics

Z Lv, D Chen, H Feng, H Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purposes are to explore the effect of Digital Twins (DTs) in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) on providing medical resources quickly and accurately during COVID-19 prevention …

URLLC-enabled by laser powered UAV relay: A quasi-optimal design of resource allocation, trajectory planning and energy harvesting

A Ranjha, G Kaddoum - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultra-reliable and low-latency (URLLC) traffic in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) systems
utilize short packets, signalling a distancing from traditional communication systems devised …

Unmanned aircraft system airspace structure and safety measures based on spatial digital twins

W Wang, X Li, L Xie, H Lv, Z Lv - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To explore the airspace structure and safety performance of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
system based on spatial digital twins (DTs), the study introduces DTs technology, and …

UAV-assisted underwater sensor networks using RF and optical wireless links

P Agheli, H Beyranvand, MJ Emadi - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) are of interest to gather data from underwater sensor
nodes (SNs) and deliver information to a terrestrial access point (AP) in the uplink …

Beyond 5G for digital twins of UAVs

Z Lv, D Chen, H Feng, R Lou, H Wang - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
The purpose is to explore the application effects and limitations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) in 5G/B5G (Beyond 5G) mobile and wireless communication. Based on …

Secure UAV-to-vehicle communications

T Li, J Ye, J Dai, H Lei, W Yang, G Pan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communications have been widely exploited in our daily
life, which leads to rising concerns about the security issue. This work investigates the …

Navigation of a UAV team for collaborative eavesdropping on multiple ground transmitters

H Huang, AV Savkin, W Ni - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to excellent mobility and high probability of a Line-of-Sight (LoS) to ground objects,
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in surveillance. This paper …

Securing transmission for UAV swarm-enabled communication network

R Dong, B Wang, K Cao, T Cheng - IEEE Systems Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in communication networks could achieve
desirable degrees of freedom, but resulting from the high line-of-sight link attributes, security …

Physical layer security for UAV communications in 5G and beyond networks

J Wang, X Wang, R Gao, C Lei, W Feng, N Ge… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Due to its high mobility and flexible deployment, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is drawing
unprecedented interest in both military and civil applications to enable agile wireless …