Applications of blockchain in unmanned aerial vehicles: A review

T Alladi, V Chamola, N Sahu, M Guizani - Vehicular Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent advancement in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in terms of manufacturing
processes, and communication and networking technology has led to a rise in their usage in …

Blockchain-envisioned UAV communication using 6G networks: Open issues, use cases, and future directions

S Aggarwal, N Kumar, S Tanwar - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can provide efficient and effective solutions for the
development of smart cities. They have been widely used in civilian and military …

An FSO-based drone assisted mobile access network for emergency communications

D Wu, X Sun, N Ansari - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying drone mounted base stations (DBSs) can quickly recover communications of
mobile users (MUs) in a disaster struck area. That is, DBSs can act as relay nodes to …

3D drone base station placement and resource allocation with FSO-based backhaul in hotspots

S Zhang, N Ansari - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying a Drone Base Station (DBS) over a hotspot area is a promising solution to
improve the user Quality of Service (QoS) by helping the Macro Base Station (MBS) transmit …

Jointly optimized 3D drone mounted base station deployment and user association in drone assisted mobile access networks

X Sun, N Ansari, R Fierro - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In drone assisted mobile networks, a drone mounted base station (DBS) is deployed over a
hotspot area to help user equipments (UEs) download their traffic from the macro base …

Latency aware 3D placement and user association in drone-assisted heterogeneous networks with FSO-based backhaul

S Zhang, N Ansari - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drone Base Station (DBS) is expected to play an important role in next generation cellular
networks due to its maneuverability in establishing air-to-ground Line of Sight (LoS) links …

MAPPO-based cooperative UAV trajectory design with long-range emergency communications in disaster areas

Y Guan, S Zou, K Li, W Ni, B Wu - 2023 IEEE 24th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the cooperative real-time trajectory design issue for multiple
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to support long-range emergency communications in …

FSO as backhaul and energizer for drone-assisted mobile access networks

N Ansari, D Wu, X Sun - ICT Express, 2020 - Elsevier
Drone mounted base stations (DBSs) can be flexibly deployed over some areas (such as
hotspots and disaster struck areas) to speed up the communication between terrestrial base …

On tethered UAV-assisted heterogeneous network

S Zhang, W Liu, N Ansari - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted heterogeneous network has drawn great research
interests as it can significantly improve the capacity and coverage of cellular networks. An …

3D Placement Optimization in UAV-Enabled Communications: A Systematic Mapping Study

J Carvajal-Rodríguez, DS Guamán… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have seen remarkable improvements in their flight
capabilities and computational power. Their applications span various domains, such as …