Accessing from the sky: A tutorial on UAV communications for 5G and beyond

Y Zeng, Q Wu, R Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to
bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling …

FANET: Communication, mobility models and security issues

A Chriki, H Touati, H Snoussi, F Kamoun - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
In the last decades, technological progress in electronic and avionic systems, mainly device
miniaturization and cost reduction, has boosted the performance of the UAV (Unmanned …

Deployment algorithms for UAV airborne networks toward on-demand coverage

H Zhao, H Wang, W Wu, J Wei - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Cellular connectivity for UAVs: Network modeling, performance analysis, and design guidelines

MM Azari, F Rosas, S Pollin - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growing use of aerial user equipments (UEs) in various applications requires ubiquitous
and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these devices and …

Fast deployment of UAV networks for optimal wireless coverage

X Zhang, L Duan - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks have emerged as a promising technique to
rapidly provide wireless coverage to a geographical area, where a flying UAV can be fast …

Coexistence of terrestrial and aerial users in cellular networks

MM Azari, F Rosas, A Chiumento… - 2017 IEEE Globecom …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enabling the integration of aerial mobile users into existing cellular networks would make
possible a number of promising applications. However, current cellular networks have not …

Coverage and rate analysis for vertical heterogeneous networks (VHetNets)

M Alzenad, H Yanikomeroglu - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we leverage concepts from stochastic geometry to investigate the downlink
performance of a vertical heterogeneous network (VHetNet) comprising aerial base stations …

Performance analysis of UAV enabled disaster recovery networks: A stochastic geometric framework based on cluster processes

AM Hayajneh, SAR Zaidi, DC McLernon… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we develop a comprehensive statistical framework to characterize and model
large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle-enabled post-disaster recovery cellular networks. In …

Tutorial on UAV: A blue sky view on wireless communication

E Vinogradov, H Sallouha, S De Bast, MM Azari… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
The growing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for various applications requires
ubiquitous and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these …

Optimum deployment of multiple UAVs for coverage area maximization in the presence of co-channel interference

AA Khuwaja, G Zheng, Y Chen, W Feng - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as the aerial base stations can provide
wireless communication services in the form of UAV-based small cells (USCs). Thus, the …