A survey on millimeter-wave beamforming enabled UAV communications and networking

Z Xiao, L Zhu, Y Liu, P Yi, R Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military
applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for …

UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges

B Alzahrani, OS Oubbati, A Barnawi… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology with the potential to
be used in industries and various sectors of human life to provide a wide range of …

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 vehicles (UAVs): A survey on civil applications and key research challenges

H Shakhatreh, AH Sawalmeh, A Al-Fuqaha, Z Dou… - Ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil
application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote …

UAV-assisted emergency networks in disasters

N Zhao, W Lu, M Sheng, Y Chen, J Tang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliable and flexible emergency communication is a key challenge for search and rescue in
the event of disasters, especially for the case when base stations are no longer functioning …

3D UAV trajectory design and frequency band allocation for energy-efficient and fair communication: A deep reinforcement learning approach

R Ding, F Gao, XS Shen - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication has drawn increasing attention
recently. In this paper, we investigate 3D UAV trajectory design and band allocation problem …

UAV-enabled secure communications by multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

Y Zhang, Z Mou, F Gao, J Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be employed as aerial base stations to support
communication for the ground users (GUs). However, the aerial-to-ground (A2G) channel …

A survey on nongeostationary satellite systems: The communication perspective

H Al-Hraishawi, H Chougrani, S Kisseleff… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next phase of satellite technology is being characterized by a new evolution in non-
geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellites, which conveys exciting new communication …

Joint trajectory and precoding optimization for UAV-assisted NOMA networks

N Zhao, X Pang, Z Li, Y Chen, F Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The explosive data traffic and connections in 5G networks require the use of non-orthogonal
multiple access (NOMA) to accommodate more users. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can …

UAV trajectory optimization for data offloading at the edge of multiple cells

F Cheng, S Zhang, Z Li, Y Chen, N Zhao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In future mobile networks, it is difficult for static base stations (BSs) to support the rapidly
increasing data services, especially for cell-edge users. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a …