A survey on UAV-assisted wireless communications: Recent advances and future trends

X Gu, G Zhang - Computer Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their characteristics of mobility, flexibility and adaptive altitude, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have immense potential applications in wireless …

Investigation of autonomous multi-UAV systems for target detection in distributed environment: Current developments and open challenges

WYH Adoni, S Lorenz, JS Fareedh, R Gloaguen… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are ubiquitous and their use cases
extend today from governmental applications to civil applications such as the agricultural …

A secure and intelligent data sharing scheme for UAV-assisted disaster rescue

Y Wang, Z Su, Q Xu, R Li, TH Luan… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to establish flexible and reliable
emergency networks in disaster sites when terrestrial communication infrastructures go …

A survey on energy optimization techniques in UAV-based cellular networks: from conventional to machine learning approaches

AI Abubakar, I Ahmad, KG Omeke, M Ozturk, C Ozturk… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wireless communication networks have been witnessing unprecedented demand due to the
increasing number of connected devices and emerging bandwidth-hungry applications …

Joint optimization of relay selection and transmission scheduling for UAV-aided mm wave vehicular networks

J Li, Y Niu, H Wu, B Ai, R He, N Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To deal with the explosive growth of mobile traffic, millimeter-wave (mmWave)
communications with abundant bandwidth resources have been applied to vehicular …

Implementation of an Edge-Computing Vision System on Reduced-Board Computers Embedded in UAVs for Intelligent Traffic Management

S Bemposta Rosende, S Ghisler, J Fernández-Andrés… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Advancements in autonomous driving have seen unprecedented improvement in recent
years. This work addresses the challenge of enhancing the navigation of autonomous …

NOMA-assisted routing algorithm design for UAV ad hoc relay networks

X Yang, B Han, G Zhang, P Zheng, J Bai… - IEEE Sensors …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ad hoc networks can be deployed flexibly and rapidly
without any infrastructure, so as to play an irreplaceable role in postdisaster relief. However …

Optimal charging profile design for solar-powered sustainable UAV communication networks

L Wang, S Tripathi, R Zhang, N Cheng… - ICC 2023-IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work studies optimal solar charging for solar-powered self-sustainable UAV
communication networks, considering the day-scale time-variability of solar radiation and …

An Adaptive Q-Value Adjustment-Based Learning Model for Reliable Vehicle-to-UAV Computation Offloading

J Wang, K Zhu, P Dai, Z Han - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) has been widely used as the flying edge server to support
ground vehicles' Onboard-Unit (OBU) applications. In this work, we address the challenges …

Deep reinforcement learning in NOMA-assisted UAV networks for path selection and resource offloading

X Yang, D Qin, J Liu, Y Li, Y Zhu, L Ma - Ad Hoc Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper constructs a NOMA-based UAV-assisted Cellular Offloading (UACO) framework
and designs a UAV path selection and resource offloading algorithm (UPRA) based on deep …