Machine learning-aided operations and communications of unmanned aerial vehicles: A contemporary survey

H Kurunathan, H Huang, K Li, W Ni… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have provided pervasive, efficient,
and cost-effective solutions for data collection and communications. Their excellent mobility …

The drone scheduling problem: A systematic state-of-the-art review

J Pasha, Z Elmi, S Purkayastha… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones are receiving popularity with time due to their advanced mobility. Although they were
initially deployed for military purposes, they now have a wide array of applications in various …

Distributed multi-agent meta learning for trajectory design in wireless drone networks

Y Hu, M Chen, W Saad, HV Poor… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the problem of the trajectory design for a group of energy-constrained drones
operating in dynamic wireless network environments is studied. In the considered model, a …

UAV trajectory planning for AoI-minimal data collection in UAV-aided IoT networks by transformer

B Zhu, E Bedeer, HH Nguyen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted
increasing attention. By taking into account age-of-information (AoI), we investigate the …

Online altitude control and scheduling policy for minimizing AoI in UAV-assisted IoT wireless networks

M Samir, C Assi, S Sharafeddine… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted Internet of Things (IoT)
networks, where low resource IoT devices periodically sample a stochastic process and …

AI-enabled UAV communications: Challenges and future directions

AO Hashesh, S Hashima, RM Zaki, MM Fouda… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communications gained significant
concentration as a talented technology for future wireless communications using its …

RIS-assisted UAV for fresh data collection in 3D urban environments: A deep reinforcement learning approach

X Fan, M Liu, Y Chen, S Sun, Z Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dispatching flexible unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect data from distributed
Internet-of-Things devices (IoTDs) is expected to be a promising technology to support time …

Age of Information minimization in UAV-aided data collection for WSN and IoT applications: A systematic review

OA Amodu, UA Bukar, RAR Mahmood, C Jarray… - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for data gathering in wireless sensor networks
(WSNs) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications has significantly gained interest in recent …

Cooperative trajectory design of multiple UAV base stations with heterogeneous graph neural networks

X Zhang, H Zhao, J Wei, C Yan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles as base stations (UAV-BSs) are recognized as effective means
for tackling eruptive communication service requirements especially when terrestrial …

Age of information and performance analysis for UAV-aided IoT systems

R Han, J Wang, L Bai, J Liu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the Internet of Things (IoT), numerous IoT devices are deployed for environment sensing,
information collecting, and data transmitting to enable different operations, including patrol …