The drone scheduling problem: A systematic state-of-the-art review

J Pasha, Z Elmi, S Purkayastha… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones are receiving popularity with time due to their advanced mobility. Although they were
initially deployed for military purposes, they now have a wide array of applications in various …

A survey on UAV-assisted wireless communications: Recent advances and future trends

X Gu, G Zhang - Computer Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their characteristics of mobility, flexibility and adaptive altitude, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have immense potential applications in wireless …

UAV-assisted RF/FSO relay system for space-air-ground integrated network: A performance analysis

L Qu, G Xu, Z Zeng, N Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN) within UAV-assisted free-space optical
(FSO) communication systems can efficiently accommodate massive connections and …

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 …

Joint deployment optimization and flight trajectory planning for UAV assisted IoT data collection: A bilevel optimization approach

S Han, K Zhu, MC Zhou, X Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted IoT system, where a UAV
flies to each foothold to collect data from IoT devices, and then return to its start point. For …

Joint optimization of caching placement and trajectory for UAV-D2D networks

T Zhang, Y Wang, W Yi, Y Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the exponential growth of data traffic in wireless networks, edge caching has been
regarded as a promising solution to offload data traffic and alleviate backhaul congestion …

Satellite-and cache-assisted UAV: A joint cache placement, resource allocation, and trajectory optimization for 6G aerial networks

DH Tran, S Chatzinotas… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-and cache-assisted unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) communications for content delivery in terrestrial networks, which shows great …

Resource allocation for aerial assisted digital twin edge mobile network

Q Guo, F Tang, N Kato - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the context of the 5G/6G mobile network, high levels of requirements such as ultra-high
data transmission rate, support for the high mobility node and seamless connection need to …

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 …

Physical layer security for UAV communications: A comprehensive survey

J Wang, X Wang, R Gao, C Lei, W Feng… - China …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to its high mobility and flexible deployment, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is drawing
unprecedented interest in both military and civil applications to enable agile and ubiquitous …