Unmanned aerial vehicle communications for civil applications: A review

M Ghamari, P Rangel, M Mehrubeoglu… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly
increased across a variety of applications over the past few years. This is due to the rapid …

Joint optimization of UAV 3-D placement and path-loss factor for energy-efficient maximal coverage

S Shakoor, Z Kaleem, DT Do, OA Dobre… - IEEE Internet of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a key enabler for communication systems beyond the fifth
generation due to its applications in almost every field, including mobile communications …

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 …

Safeguarding UAV IoT communication systems against randomly located eavesdroppers

H Lei, D Wang, KH Park, IS Ansari… - IEEE Internet of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be extensively utilized in various Internet of Things
(IoT) scenarios due to their flexible mobility and rapid on-demand deployment. It becomes …

The meta distribution of SINR in UAV-assisted cellular networks

M Shi, K Yang, D Niyato, H Yuan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mounting compact and lightweight base stations on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a
cost-effective and flexible solution to provide seamless coverage on the existing terrestrial …

Drone-small-cell-assisted resource slicing for 5G uplink radio access networks

H Shen, Q Ye, W Zhuang, W Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio resource slicing is critical to customize service provisioning in fifth-generation (5G)
uplink radio access networks (RANs). Using drone-small-cells (DSCs) as aerial support for …

Content delivery analysis in cellular networks with aerial caching and mmwave backhaul

W Wang, N Cheng, Y Liu, H Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the successful content delivery (SCD) performance in the
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) integrated terrestrial cellular networks, where the caching …

Uplink NOMA for cellular-connected UAV: Impact of UAV trajectories and altitude

N Senadhira, S Durrani, X Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers an emerging cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
architecture for surveillance or monitoring applications. We study a scenario of interest …

Downlink coverage and rate analysis of an aerial user in vertical heterogeneous networks (VHetNets)

N Cherif, M Alzenad, H Yanikomeroglu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we analyze the downlink coverage probability and rate of an aerial user in
vertical HetNets (VHetNets) comprising aerial base stations (aerial-BSs) and terrestrial-BSs …

Blockchain-based secure delivery of medical supplies using drones

MA Cheema, RI Ansari, N Ashraf, SA Hassan… - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
The advantages provided by the drones with regards to three dimensional mobility and ease
of deployment makes them a viable candidate for 5G and beyond (B5G) networks …