A comprehensive overview on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: From communications to sensing and intelligence

Q Wu, J Xu, Y Zeng, DWK Ng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular
infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and …

Machine learning-aided operations and communications of unmanned aerial vehicles: A contemporary survey

H Kurunathan, H Huang, K Li, W Ni… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have provided pervasive, efficient,
and cost-effective solutions for data collection and communications. Their excellent mobility …

Privacy-preserving federated learning for UAV-enabled networks: Learning-based joint scheduling and resource management

H Yang, J Zhao, Z Xiong, KY Lam… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of serving as flying base stations (BSs) for
supporting data collection, machine learning (ML) model training, and wireless …

Aerial computing: A new computing paradigm, applications, and challenges

QV Pham, R Ruby, F Fang, DC Nguyen… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In existing computing systems, such as edge computing and cloud computing, several
emerging applications and practical scenarios are mostly unavailable or only partially …

UAV trajectory planning for AoI-minimal data collection in UAV-aided IoT networks by transformer

B Zhu, E Bedeer, HH Nguyen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted
increasing attention. By taking into account age-of-information (AoI), we investigate the …

Joint computation offloading and trajectory planning for UAV-assisted edge computing

C Sun, W Ni, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With excellent flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can act as airborne computing
servers to assist smart terminals (STs) with their computationally-intense and delay-sensitive …

IRS empowered UAV wireless communication with resource allocation, reflecting design and trajectory optimization

X Zhang, H Zhang, W Du, K Long… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As revolutionary technologies that can actively change the communication link signal,
intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) have emerged as …

Security threats and mitigation techniques in UAV communications: A comprehensive survey

GK Pandey, DS Gurjar, HH Nguyen, S Yadav - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been instrumental in enabling many new
applications and services, including military and rescue operations, aerial surveillance …

Energy minimization for cellular-connected UAV: From optimization to deep reinforcement learning

C Zhan, Y Zeng - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to become integral
components of future cellular networks. To this end, one of the important problems to …

Joint optimization of trajectory, propulsion, and thrust powers for covert UAV-on-UAV video tracking and surveillance

S Hu, W Ni, X Wang, A Jamalipour… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous tracking of suspicious unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by legitimate
monitoring UAVs (or monitors) can be crucial to public safety and security. It is non-trivial to …