The great advances made in the wireless technology have enabled the deployment of
wireless communication networks in some of the harshest environments such as volcanoes …

Wireless communication with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a promising technology
for future communication systems. In this paper, assuming that the UAV flies horizontally with …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been considered in wireless communication
systems to provide high-quality services for their low cost and high maneuverability. This …

This article proposes a novel framework for UAV networks with massive access capability
supported by NOMA. In order to better understand NOMA-enabled UAV networks, three …

Communications play an important role during public safety operations. Since the current
communication technologies heavily rely on the backbone network, the failure of base …

Public safety networks (PSNs) are very crucial for public protection and disaster relief
(PPDR). Land mobile radio (LMR) technologies have been used extensively in the …

The concept of social vulnerability has been increasingly applied in disaster literature, but its
communicative drivers have remained understudied. In this article, we put forward a …

Communications play an important role during public-safety operations. Because the current
communication technologies heavily rely on the backbone network, the failure of base …

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found growing applications in wireless
communications and sensor networks. One of the key challenges for UAV-based wireless …

With increasing interdependence of various lifeline networks, natural disasters, especially
seismic disasters damage will further degrade overall network performance. Hence, based …