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 …

From 5G to 6G—challenges, technologies, and applications

AI Salameh, M El Tarhuni - Future Internet, 2022 - mdpi.com
As the deployment of 5G mobile radio networks gains momentum across the globe, the
wireless research community is already planning the successor of 5G. In this paper, we …

Outage performance analysis of RIS-assisted UAV wireless systems under disorientation and misalignment

AAA Boulogeorgos, A Alexiou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we analyze the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-
assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless system that is affected by mixture-gamma …

THz-empowered UAVs in 6G: Opportunities, challenges, and trade-offs

MM Azari, S Solanki, S Chatzinotas… - IEEE Communications …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Envisioned use cases of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) impose new service
requirements in terms of data rate, latency, and sensing accuracy, to name a few. Meeting …

6G NR-U based wireless infrastructure UAV: Standardization, opportunities, challenges and future scopes

R Bajracharya, R Shrestha, S Kim, H Jung - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing ubiquitous connectivity for people and equipment with a wide range of service
conditions is regarded as the major design goal of 6G networks. Moreover, the future 6G …

Proactive handover decision for UAVs with deep reinforcement learning

Y Jang, SM Raza, M Kim, H Choo - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are rapidly growing in domains such
as surveillance, logistics, and entertainment and require continuous connectivity with …

On the performance of IRS-aided UAV networks with NOMA

S Solanki, J Park, I Lee - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the performance of an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) assisted
non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where the IRS is mounted on an …

Paving the Way Toward Mobile IAB: Problems, Solutions and Challenges

VF Monteiro, FRM Lima, DC Moreira… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying access and backhaul as wireless links, aka integrated access and backhaul
(IAB), is envisioned as a viable approach to enable flexible and dense networks. Even …

Reinforcement learning for energy-efficient trajectory design of UAVs

AH Arani, MM Azari, P Hu, Y Zhu… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (BSs) into terrestrial
cellular networks has emerged as an effective solution to provide coverage and complement …

Ambient backscatter assisted co-existence in aerial-IRS wireless networks

S Solanki, S Gautam, SK Sharma… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) is an emerging technology that has the
potential to offer spectral-and energy-efficient solutions for the next generation wireless …