Survey on UAV cellular communications: Practical aspects, standardization advancements, regulation, and security challenges

A Fotouhi, H Qiang, M Ding, M Hassan… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is creating promising new
business opportunities for cellular operators. On the one hand, UAVs can be connected to …

UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges

B Alzahrani, OS Oubbati, A Barnawi… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology with the potential to
be used in industries and various sectors of human life to provide a wide range of …

UAV base station location optimization for next generation wireless networks: Overview and future research directions

CT Cicek, H Gultekin, B Tavli… - 2019 1st International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles mounted base stations (UAV-BSs) are expected to become one
of the significant components of the Next Generation Wireless Networks (NGWNs). Rapid …

Resource management in UAV-assisted wireless networks: An optimization perspective

R Masroor, M Naeem, W Ejaz - Ad Hoc Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Wireless networks are expected to provide connectivity to an increasing number of users
with heterogeneous requirements. Future wireless networks will integrate aerial and …

Survey on UAV deployment and trajectory in wireless communication networks: Applications and challenges

SI Han - Information, 2022 - mdpi.com
A new era of the fifth-generation (5G) networks is realized to satisfy user demands on higher
data rate and massive connectivity for information sharing and utilization. The vertical …

A method for optimized deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles for maximum coverage and minimum interference in cellular networks

H Huang, AV Savkin - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We focus on the problem of deploying unmanned aerial vehicles to service mobile users in a
cellular network, with the aim of maximizing coverage and reducing interference effects. An …

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 …

Modeling and analysis of aerial base station-assisted cellular networks in finite areas under LoS and NLoS propagation

X Wang, H Zhang, Y Tian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial base station (ABS) provides a flexible solution for hotspot scenarios in traditional
cellular networks, where macro-cell base stations (MBSs) are challenged by overwhelming …

DroneCells: Improving spectral efficiency using drone-mounted flying base stations

A Fotouhi, M Ding, M Hassan - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
We study a networking scenario for 5G and beyond, called DroneCells, where miniaturized
base stations (BSs) are mounted on flying drones to serve mobile users. We propose that …

Coverage optimization with a dynamic network of drone relays

E Arribas, V Mancuso, V Cholvi - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The integration of aerial base stations carried by drones in cellular networks offers promising
opportunities to enhance the connectivity enjoyed by ground users. In this paper, we …