Convergence of satellite and terrestrial networks: A comprehensive survey

P Wang, J Zhang, X Zhang, Z Yan, BG Evans… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The explosive growth of various services boosts the innovation and development in
terrestrial communication systems for the implementation of the next generation mobile …

A survey on unmanned aerial vehicle relaying networks

B Li, S Zhao, R Miao, R Zhang - IET communications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the explosive growth of data communications, existing infrastructure networks are
under ever‐increasing pressure. Due to the advantages of fully controllable mobility, rapid …

LVBS: Lightweight vehicular blockchain for secure data sharing in disaster rescue

Z Su, Y Wang, Q Xu, N Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In disaster areas, a large amount of data (eg, rescue commands, road damage, and rescue
experience) should be delivered among ground rescuing vehicles for safe driving and …

Softwarization of UAV networks: A survey of applications and future trends

OS Oubbati, M Atiquzzaman, TA Ahanger… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in assisting 5G and
beyond 5G (B5G) mobile networks. Indeed, UAVs have all the potentials to both satisfy the …

Intelligent ubiquitous network accessibility for wireless-powered MEC in UAV-assisted B5G

J Wang, C Jin, Q Tang, NN Xiong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing the ubiquitous network accessibility is the key goal for 5G and Beyond 5G (B5G)
networks. As the number of devices and data increase, ensuring the Quality of Service (QoS) …

An adaptive UAV deployment scheme for emergency networking

N Lin, Y Liu, L Zhao, DO Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the areas after natural disaster strikes, the ground communication network can be failed,
due to the damage of the communication infrastructure. However, during or after the natural …

PARTH: A two-stage lightweight mutual authentication protocol for UAV surveillance networks

T Alladi, V Chamola, N Kumar - Computer Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
UAVs are being widely deployed in security and surveillance applications around the world.
Due to deployment in remote environments and also due to limited resources on these …

Multi-UAV navigation for partially observable communication coverage by graph reinforcement learning

Z Ye, K Wang, Y Chen, X Jiang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we aim to design a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based control solution
to navigating a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly around an unexplored …

Collaborative design of multi-UAV trajectory and resource scheduling for 6G-enabled internet of things

J Wang, Z Na, X Liu - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The 6th generation (6G) communication envisions a highly integrated network where aerial
vehicles connect satellites and terrestrial systems. As low altitude vehicle, unmanned aerial …

Lifesaving with RescueChain: Energy-efficient and partition-tolerant blockchain based secure information sharing for UAV-aided disaster rescue

Y Wang, Z Su, Q Xu, R Li… - IEEE INFOCOM 2021-IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have brought numerous potentials to establish flexible
and reliable emergency networks in disaster areas when terrestrial communication …