Artificial intelligence approaches for UAV navigation: Recent advances and future challenges

S Rezwan, W Choi - IEEE access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) applications have increased in popularity in recent years
because of their ability to incorporate a wide variety of sensors while retaining cheap …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on UAV placement and trajectory optimization in communication networks: From the perspective of air-to-ground channel models

J Won, DY Kim, YI Park, JW Lee - ICT Express, 2023 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized extensively in communication
networks due to their versatility and maneuverability. It is also necessary to optimize their …

Deep deterministic policy gradient-based rate maximization for RIS-UAV-assisted vehicular communication networks

H Zhao, W Sun, Y Ni, W Xia, G Gui… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising paradigm for implementing intelligent
reconfigurable wireless propagation environments in the 6G era. However, most of the …

On the ground and in the sky: A tutorial on radio localization in ground-air-space networks

H Sallouha, S Saleh, S De Bast, Z Cui… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The inherent limitations in scaling up ground infrastructure for future wireless networks,
combined with decreasing operational costs of aerial and space networks, are driving …

Joint 3-D positioning and power allocation for UAV relay aided by geographic information

P Yi, L Zhu, L Zhu, Z Xiao, Z Han… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study to employ geographic information to address the blockage problem of
air-to-ground links between UAV and terrestrial nodes. In particular, a UAV relay is deployed …

Surveying cybersecurity vulnerabilities and countermeasures for enhancing UAV security

N Kumar, A Chaudhary - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Drones and other forms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) usages are increasing with
time from military operations like surveillance, reconnaissance to commercial operations …

Satellite localization of IoT devices using signal strength and Doppler measurements

ISM Hashim, A Al-Hourani… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Determining the location of wireless devices is vital in many applications. However, global
navigation satellite system technologies require a dedicated hardware module installed in …

Physical Environment Map Aided 3D Deployment Optimization for UAV-Assisted Integrated Localization and Communication in Urban Areas

S Bi, Z Zhuo, XH Lin, Y Wu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article considers deploying a dual-functional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as both an
aerial data collector and aerial anchor node (AN) to assist the ground base stations in …

Multiple radio transmitter localization via UAV-based mapping

Z Li, A Giorgetti, S Kandeepan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has opened a novel perspective
on spectrum awareness and localization because of their ability to overcome spatial limits …

Massive MIMO for aerial highways: Enhancing cell selection via SSB beams optimization

M Bernabè, D López-Pèrez, N Piovesan… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we introduce a novel approach for enhancing cellular connectivity for
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on aerial highways via terrestrial 5G networks. Owing to …