What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? A flight from 5G to 6G

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, MM Azari… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address
such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and …

A survey of wireless networks for future aerial communications (FACOM)

A Baltaci, E Dinc, M Ozger, A Alabbasi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrification turned over a new leaf in aviation by introducing new types of aerial vehicles
along with new means of transportation. Addressing a plethora of use cases, drones are …

A survey on cellular-connected UAVs: Design challenges, enabling 5G/B5G innovations, and experimental advancements

D Mishra, E Natalizio - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
As an emerging field of aerial robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained
significant research interest within the wireless networking research community. As soon as …

Mobility in the sky: Performance and mobility analysis for cellular-connected UAVs

R Amer, W Saad, N Marchetti - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipment (UAV-UE), such as
drones or flying taxis, is a major challenge for tomorrow's cellular systems. In this paper, the …

Handover management of drones in future mobile networks: 6G technologies

J Angjo, I Shayea, M Ergen, H Mohamad… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones will be a significant part of future mobile communication networks, serving as mobile
users or acting as mobile base stations at sky. Although they will provide several solutions …

Connectivity-aware 3D UAV path design with deep reinforcement learning

H Xie, D Yang, L Xiao, J Lyu - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the three-dimensional (3D) path planning problem for cellular-
connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) taking into account the impact of 3D antenna …

Downlink performance analysis in MIMO UAV-cellular communication with LOS/NLOS propagation under 3D beamforming

D Alkama, MA Ouamri, MS Alzaidi, RN Shaw… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as the base station is a recent progress and a
promising solution to assist cellular networks to improve coverage. In this paper, an …

A comprehensive survey on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: Applications, emerging technologies, regulatory aspects, research trends and challenges

M Banafaa, Ö Pepeoğlu, I Shayea, A Alhammadi… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid advancement of fifth-generation (5G)-and-beyond networks coupled with
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has opened up exciting possibilities for diverse …

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 …

Performance analysis of UAV multiple antenna-assisted small cell network with clustered users

MA Ouamri, D Singh, MA Muthanna, A Bounceur, X Li - Wireless Networks, 2023 - Springer
The emerging unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing an important role to assist
cellular networks and provide ubiquitous coverage for cellular networks. UAVs can …