A survey on millimeter-wave beamforming enabled UAV communications and networking

Z Xiao, L Zhu, Y Liu, P Yi, R Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military
applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for …

A survey of maritime unmanned search system: theory, applications and future directions

J Li, G Zhang, C Jiang, W Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The rising frequency of ocean activities, such as ocean transportation and marine resources
development, inevitably leads to a higher incidence of sudden accidents at sea. Maritime …

A survey on UAV-aided maritime communications: Deployment considerations, applications, and future challenges

N Nomikos, PK Gkonis, PS Bithas… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maritime activities represent a major domain of economic growth with several emerging
maritime Internet of Things use cases, such as smart ports, autonomous navigation, and …

NOMA-based hybrid satellite-UAV-terrestrial networks for 6G maritime coverage

X Fang, W Feng, Y Wang, Y Chen, N Ge… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current fifth-generation (5G) networks do not cover maritime areas, causing difficulties in
developing maritime Internet of Things (IoT). To tackle this problem, we establish a …

Packet routing in dynamic multi-hop UAV relay network: A multi-agent learning approach

R Ding, J Chen, W Wu, J Liu, F Gao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The multi-hop unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network can serve as data relays where
ground users (GUs) do not have reliable direct connections to the base station (BS). Existing …

UAV caching in 6G networks: A Survey on models, techniques, and applications

TQ Duong, KJ Kim, Z Kaleem, MP Bui, NS Vo - Physical Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid development road map of 6G networks has posed a new set of challenges to both
industrial and academic sectors. On the one hand, it needs more disruptive technologies …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on integrated access and backhaul networks

Y Zhang, MA Kishk, MS Alouini - Frontiers in Communications and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Benefiting from the usage of the high-frequency band, utilizing part of the large available
bandwidth for wireless backhauling is feasible without considerable performance sacrifice …

Toward smart traffic management with 3D placement optimization in UAV-assisted NOMA IIoT networks

ABM Adam, MSA Muthanna… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next generation networks will involve huge number of industrial internet of things (IIoT)
sensors which require reliable connectivity with low latency to manage the data transmission …

UAV-assisted edge caching under uncertain demand: A data-driven distributionally robust joint strategy

X Li, J Liu, N Zhao, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted edge caching has been emerged as a promising
solution to alleviate network congestion, which can provide users with their desired contents …

Adaptive data collection and offloading in multi-UAV-assisted maritime iot systems: A deep reinforcement learning approach

Z Liang, Y Dai, L Lyu, B Lin - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper studies the integration of data collection and offloading for maritime Internet of
Things (IoT) systems with multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In the considered multi …