Towards the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): A comprehensive review

SAH Mohsan, MA Khan, F Noor, I Ullah, MH Alsharif - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have come in a great
diversity of several applications such as military, construction, image and video mapping …

A survey of UAV-based data collection: Challenges, solutions and future perspectives

K Messaoudi, OS Oubbati, A Rachedi, A Lakas… - Journal of network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) generates unlimited data, which should be collected and
forwarded towards a central controller (CC) for further processing and decision-making …

Digital twin assisted task offloading for aerial edge computing and networks

B Li, Y Liu, L Tan, H Pan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering the user mobility and unpredictable mobile edge computing (MEC)
environments, this paper studies the intelligent task offloading problem in unmanned aerial …

Secure transmission for multi-UAV-assisted mobile edge computing based on reinforcement learning

W Lu, Y Mo, Y Feng, Y Gao, N Zhao… - … on Network Science …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
UAV communication has received widespread attention in MEC systems due to its high
flexibility and line-of-sight transmission. Users can reduce their local computing pressures …

A survey on resource management in joint communication and computing-embedded SAGIN

Q Chen, Z Guo, W Meng, S Han, C Li… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advent of the 6G era aims for ubiquitous connectivity, with the integration of non-
terrestrial networks (NTN) offering extensive coverage and enhanced capacity. As …

QoS-aware placement of microservices-based IoT applications in Fog computing environments

S Pallewatta, V Kostakos, R Buyya - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
The Fog computing paradigm, offering cloud-like services at the edge of the network, has
become a feasible model to support computing and storage capabilities required by latency …

Reliability theory and practice for unmanned aerial vehicles

L Xing, BW Johnson - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to rapid advancements on the Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), also known as drones, are transforming numerous military and civil application …

Cooperative UAV resource allocation and task offloading in hierarchical aerial computing systems: A MAPPO-based approach

H Kang, X Chang, J Mišić, VB Mišić… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates a hierarchical aerial computing system, where both high-altitude
platforms (HAPs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provision computation services for …

A fresh look at routing protocols in unmanned aerial vehicular networks: a survey

N Mansoor, MI Hossain, A Rozario, M Zareei… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones has grown rapidly in both civilian
and military operations over the last few decades. Multi-UAV systems are preferred to single …

Secure and energy-efficient UAV relay communications exploiting collaborative beamforming

G Sun, J Li, A Wang, Q Wu, Z Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising communication platform to assist terrestrial
networks. In this work, we aim to provide relay communication to the blocked or low-quality …