A tutorial on UAVs for wireless networks: Applications, challenges, and open problems

M Mozaffari, W Saad, M Bennis… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as
drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility …

A comprehensive survey on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: Applications, emerging technologies, regulatory aspects, research trends and challenges

M Banafaa, Ö Pepeoğlu, I Shayea, A Alhammadi… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid advancement of fifth-generation (5G)-and-beyond networks coupled with
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has opened up exciting possibilities for diverse …

A survey on cellular-connected UAVs: Design challenges, enabling 5G/B5G innovations, and experimental advancements

D Mishra, E Natalizio - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
As an emerging field of aerial robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained
significant research interest within the wireless networking research community. As soon as …

Mobility in the sky: Performance and mobility analysis for cellular-connected UAVs

R Amer, W Saad, N Marchetti - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle-user equipment (UAV-UE), such as
drones or flying taxis, is a major challenge for tomorrow's cellular systems. In this paper, the …

Drones in distress: A game-theoretic countermeasure for protecting UAVs against GPS spoofing

AR Eldosouky, A Ferdowsi… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One prominent security threat that targets unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is the capture
via global positioning system (GPS) spoofing in which an attacker manipulates a UAV's GPS …

Blockchain-based charging coordination mechanism for smart grid energy storage units

M Baza, M Nabil, M Ismail, M Mahmoud… - 2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy storage units (ESUs) enable several attractive features of modern smart grids such
as enhanced grid resilience, effective demand response, and reduced bills. However …

Performance analysis of mobile cellular-connected drones under practical antenna configurations

R Amer, W Saad, B Galkin… - ICC 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing seamless connectivity to unmanned aerial vehicle user equipment (UAV-UE) is
very challenging due to the encountered line-of-sight interference and reduced gains of …

Uplink NOMA for cellular-connected UAV: Impact of UAV trajectories and altitude

N Senadhira, S Durrani, X Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers an emerging cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
architecture for surveillance or monitoring applications. We study a scenario of interest …

Analysis of large scale aerial terrestrial networks with mmWave backhauling

N Kouzayha, H ElSawy, H Dahrouj… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service providers are considering the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enhance
wireless connectivity of cellular networks. To provide connectivity, UAVs have to be …

Toward a connected sky: Performance of beamforming with down-tilted antennas for ground and UAV user co-existence

R Amer, W Saad, N Marchetti - IEEE Communications Letters, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing connectivity to aerial users (AUs) such as cellular-connected unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) is a key challenge for tomorrow's cellular systems. In this letter, the use of …