A tutorial on UAVs for wireless networks: Applications, challenges, and open problems

M Mozaffari, W Saad, M Bennis… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as
drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility …

Efficient deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles for optimal wireless coverage

M Mozaffari, W Saad, M Bennis… - IEEE Communications …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, the efficient deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as
wireless base stations that provide coverage for ground users is analyzed. First, the …

Building a collaborative solution in dense urban city settings to enhance parcel delivery: An effective crowd model in Paris

H Akeb, B Moncef, B Durand - … Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2018 - Elsevier
Parcel delivery, one of the major components of e-commerce growth, has become
increasingly challenging with the increase of urban logistics issues. During home delivery …

[图书][B] New approaches to circle packing in a square: with program codes

PG Szabó, MC Markót, T Csendes, E Specht… - 2007 - books.google.com
In one sense, the problem of finding the densest packing of congruent circles in a square is
easy to understand. But on closer inspection, this problem reveals itself to be an interesting …

On greedy construction of connected dominating sets in wireless networks

Y Li, MT Thai, F Wang, CW Yi… - … and Mobile Computing, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Since no fixed infrastructure and no centralized management present in wireless networks, a
connected dominating set (CDS) of the graph representing the network is widely used as a …

Circle packing in regular polygons

P Amore - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We study the packing of a large number of congruent and non-overlapping circles inside a
regular polygon. We have devised efficient algorithms that allow one to generate …

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 …

Energy-efficient 3-D deployment of aerial access points in a UAV communication system

N Babu, CB Papadias… - IEEE Communications …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose an energy-efficient 3-dimensional placement of multiple aerial
access points (AAPs), in the desired area, acting as flying base stations for uplink …

Multi-tier variable height UAV networks: User coverage and throughput optimization

M Nafees, J Thompson, M Safari - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly considered to act as base stations (BSs)
for the future wireless networks. Some of the crucial UAV-assisted network design …

Linear models for the approximate solution of the problem of packing equal circles into a given domain

SI Galiev, MS Lisafina - European Journal of Operational Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The linear models for the approximate solution of the problem of packing the maximum
number of equal circles of the given radius into a given closed bounded domain G are …