An edge computing empowered radio access network with UAV-mounted FSO fronthaul and backhaul: Key challenges and approaches

Y Dong, MZ Hassan, J Cheng… - IEEE Wireless …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One promising approach to address the supply-demand mismatch between the terrestrial
infrastructure and temporary and/or unexpected traffic demands is to leverage the UAV …

Novel DTN mobility-driven routing in autonomous drone logistics networks

S Iranmanesh, R Raad, MS Raheel, F Tubbal… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones have become prevalent for the delivery of goods by many retail companies such as
Amazon and Dominos. Amazon has an issued patent that describes how drones scan and …

[HTML][HTML] Routing protocols for UAV-aided wireless sensor networks

MY Arafat, MA Habib, S Moh - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) attracted significant popularity in both military
and civilian domains for various applications and services. Moreover, UAV-aided wireless …

Moving aerial base station networks: A stochastic geometry analysis and design perspective

S Enayati, H Saeedi, H Pishro-Nik… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the utilization of aerial base stations (ABSs) has attracted a lot of attention. For the
static implementation of ABSs, it has been shown that if the ABSs are statistically distributed …

Utilizing active sensor nodes in smart environments for optimal communication coverage

T Xie, C Zhang, Z Zhang, K Yang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless sensor networks are widely used in smart environments to capture and detect the
activities of human beings, and achieving reliable transmission between sensor nodes has …

Amateur Drones Detection: A machine learning approach utilizing the acoustic signals in the presence of strong interference

Z Uddin, M Altaf, M Bilal, L Nkenyereye… - Computer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Owing to small size, sensing capabilities and autonomous nature, the Unmanned Air
Vehicles (UAVs) have enormous applications in various areas eg, remote sensing …

3D drone base station placement and resource allocation with FSO-based backhaul in hotspots

S Zhang, N Ansari - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying a Drone Base Station (DBS) over a hotspot area is a promising solution to
improve the user Quality of Service (QoS) by helping the Macro Base Station (MBS) transmit …

UEE-RPL: a UAV-based energy efficient routing for Internet of Things

Z Yang, H Liu, Y Chen, X Zhu, Y Ning… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed at a large
scale to collect and control a wide range of terminals. To enable such applications, a routing …

Toward future unmanned aerial vehicle networks: Architecture, resource allocation and field experiments

Y Kawamoto, H Nishiyama, N Kato… - IEEE Wireless …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aircraft systems have recently been considered as effective solutions to establish
communication network infrastructures in isolated regions, and perform environment-related …

Efficient management and fast handovers in software defined wireless networks using UAVs

V Sharma, F Song, I You, HC Chao - IEEE Network, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compared to traditional networking, SDN has better controllability and visibility for network
components, which enable better management by using the common controller. In this …