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 …

Cellular and virtualization technologies for uavs: An experimental perspective

V Sanchez-Aguero, LF Gonzalez, F Valera, I Vidal… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) ecosystem is exponentially growing in both
recreational and professional fields to provide novel services and applications to consumers …

Deploying an NFV-based experimentation scenario for 5G solutions in underserved areas

V Sanchez-Aguero, I Vidal, F Valera, B Nogales… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Presently, a significant part of the world population does not have Internet access. The fifth-
generation cellular network technology evolution (5G) is focused on reducing latency …

A multi-site NFV testbed for experimentation with SUAV-based 5G vertical services

I Vidal, B Nogales, F Valera, LF Gonzalez… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advent of 5G technologies, vertical markets have been placed at the forefront, as
fundamental drivers and adopters of technical developments and new business models …

Enhanced remote areas communications: The missing scenario for 5G and beyond 5G networks

LL Mendes, CS Moreno, MV Marquezini… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next generation of mobile communication system will allow a plethora of new services
and use cases. By offering support for high throughput connections, low latency response …

A comparative study of virtual infrastructure management solutions for uav networks

LF Gonzalez, I Vidal, F Valera… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The promising combination of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with network virtualisation
technologies has positively shown many advantages enabling the deployment of …

Using aerial and vehicular NFV infrastructures to agilely create vertical services

B Nogales, M Silva, I Vidal, M Luís, F Valera… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
5G communications have become an enabler for the creation of new and more complex
networking scenarios, bringing together different vertical ecosystems. Such behavior has …

Integration of 5G experimentation infrastructures into a multi-site NFV ecosystem

B Nogales, LF Gonzalez, I Vidal, F Valera… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2021 - jove.com
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has been regarded as one of the key enablers for the
5th Generation of mobile networks, or 5G. This paradigm allows to reduce the dependence …

Energy-aware management in multi-UAV deployments: Modelling and strategies

V Sanchez-Aguero, F Valera, I Vidal, C Tipantuña… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are frequently present in the civilian
environment. However, proper implementations of different solutions based on these aircraft …

Contributions to energy-aware demand-response systems using SDN and NFV for fog computing

CJ Tipantuña Tenelema - 2022 - upcommons.upc.edu
Ever-increasing energy consumption, the depletion of non-renewable resources, the climate
impact associated with energy generation, and finite energy-production capacity are …