Accessing from the sky: A tutorial on UAV communications for 5G and beyond

Y Zeng, Q Wu, R Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to
bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling …

UAV assisted 5G and beyond wireless networks: A survey

R Shahzadi, M Ali, HZ Khan, M Naeem - Journal of network and computer …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a huge technological advancement in the field of wireless communication in the last
few decades. Technology has revolutionized from voice communication to interactive …

Energy-efficient data collection in UAV enabled wireless sensor network

C Zhan, Y Zeng, R Zhang - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In wireless sensor networks, utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data
collector for the sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network …

Energy-efficient data collection and device positioning in UAV-assisted IoT

Z Wang, R Liu, Q Liu, JS Thompson… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) will significantly change both industrial manufacturing and our
daily lives. Data collection and 3-D positioning of IoT devices are two indispensable services …

Completion time and energy optimization in the UAV-enabled mobile-edge computing system

C Zhan, H Hu, X Sui, Z Liu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Completion time and energy consumption of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are two
important design aspects in UAV-enabled applications. In this article, we consider a UAV …

Optimal UAV caching and trajectory in aerial-assisted vehicular networks: A learning-based approach

H Wu, F Lyu, C Zhou, J Chen, L Wang… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate the UAV-aided edge caching to assist terrestrial vehicular
networks in delivering high-bandwidth content files. Aiming at maximizing the overall …

Optimum placement of UAV as relays

Y Chen, W Feng, G Zheng - IEEE Communications Letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations or relays are becoming
increasingly important in communications. In this letter, the optimum placement of a relaying …

Multiple UAVs as relays: Multi-hop single link versus multiple dual-hop links

Y Chen, N Zhao, Z Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found many important applications in
communications. They can serve as either aerial base stations or mobile relays to improve …

Multi-UAV-enabled mobile-edge computing for time-constrained IoT applications

C Zhan, H Hu, Z Liu, Z Wang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-enabled mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a
promising paradigm to extend the coverage of computation service for Internet of Things …

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 …