Accessing from the sky: A tutorial on UAV communications for 5G and beyond

Y Zeng, Q Wu, R Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to
bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling …

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 …

Cellular-connected UAV: Potential, challenges, and promising technologies

Y Zeng, J Lyu, R Zhang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enabling high-rate, low-latency and ultra-reliable wireless communications between UAVs
and their associated ground pilots/users is of paramount importance to realize their large …

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 …

An extensive survey on the Internet of Drones

P Boccadoro, D Striccoli, LA Grieco - Ad Hoc Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Internet of Drones (IoD) recently gained momentum due to its high adaptability
to a wide variety of complex scenarios. Indeed, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted aerial-terrestrial communications via multi-task learning

X Cao, B Yang, C Huang, C Yuen… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aerial-terrestrial communication system constitutes an efficient paradigm for supporting
and complementing terrestrial communications. However, the benefits of such a system …

An adaptive UAV deployment scheme for emergency networking

N Lin, Y Liu, L Zhao, DO Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the areas after natural disaster strikes, the ground communication network can be failed,
due to the damage of the communication infrastructure. However, during or after the natural …

Secrecy rate analysis of UAV-enabled mmWave networks using Matérn hardcore point processes

Y Zhu, G Zheng, M Fitch - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communications aided by low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as
an effective solution to provide large coverage and dynamic capacity for both military and …

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 …

Coverage analysis for energy-harvesting UAV-assisted mmWave cellular networks

X Wang, MC Gursoy - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we jointly consider the downlink simultaneous wireless information and power
transfer (SWIPT) and uplink information transmission in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) …