UAV communications for 5G and beyond: Recent advances and future trends

B Li, Z Fei, Y Zhang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing ubiquitous connectivity to diverse device types is the key challenge for 5G and
beyond 5G (B5G). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important …

Unmanned aerial vehicle communications for civil applications: A review

M Ghamari, P Rangel, M Mehrubeoglu… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly
increased across a variety of applications over the past few years. This is due to the rapid …

Design challenges of multi-UAV systems in cyber-physical applications: A comprehensive survey and future directions

R Shakeri, MA Al-Garadi, A Badawy… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently rapidly grown to facilitate a wide range of
innovative applications that can fundamentally change the way cyber-physical systems …

Adaptive deployment for UAV-aided communication networks

Z Wang, L Duan, R Zhang - IEEE transactions on wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as an aerial base station is a promising technology to
rapidly provide wireless connectivity to ground users. Given UAV's agility and mobility, a key …

Coverage and rate analysis for vertical heterogeneous networks (VHetNets)

M Alzenad, H Yanikomeroglu - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we leverage concepts from stochastic geometry to investigate the downlink
performance of a vertical heterogeneous network (VHetNet) comprising aerial base stations …

Optimal UAV base station trajectories using flow-level models for reinforcement learning

V Saxena, J Jaldén, H Klessig - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cellular base stations (BS) and remote radio heads can be mounted on unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAV) for flexible, traffic-aware deployment. These UAV base station networks …

Downlink analysis in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted cellular networks with clustered users

E Turgut, MC Gursoy - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating as aerial base stations (BSs) has
emerged as a promising solution especially in scenarios requiring rapid deployments (eg, in …

Downlink coverage and rate analysis of an aerial user in vertical heterogeneous networks (VHetNets)

N Cherif, M Alzenad, H Yanikomeroglu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we analyze the downlink coverage probability and rate of an aerial user in
vertical HetNets (VHetNets) comprising aerial base stations (aerial-BSs) and terrestrial-BSs …

Coverage and rate analysis for unmanned aerial vehicle base stations with LoS/NLoS propagation

M Alzenad, H Yanikomeroglu - 2018 IEEE Globecom …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) as airborne base stations has
recently gained great attention. In this paper, we model a network of UAV-BSs as a Poisson …

QoE-driven adaptive deployment strategy of multi-UAV networks based on hybrid deep reinforcement learning

Y Zhou, X Ma, S Hu, D Zhou… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as aerial base stations to provide controlled
wireless connections for ground users. Due to their constraints on both mobility and energy …