Softwarization of UAV networks: A survey of applications and future trends

OS Oubbati, M Atiquzzaman, TA Ahanger… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in assisting 5G and
beyond 5G (B5G) mobile networks. Indeed, UAVs have all the potentials to both satisfy the …

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 …

Robust edge computing in UAV systems via scalable computing and cooperative computing

Z Liu, C Zhan, Y Cui, C Wu, H Hu - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems are of increasing interest to academia and industry
due to their mobility, flexibility, and maneuverability, and are an effective alternative to …

An in-depth survey on virtualization technologies in 6g integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks

S Ammar, CP Lau, B Shihada - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
6G networks are envisioned to deliver a large diversity of applications and meet stringent
Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Hence, integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial …

VENUE: Virtualized environment for multi-UAV network emulation

V Sanchez-Aguero, F Valera, B Nogales… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have progressively been integrated into people lives
during the last years. It is quite common now to see UAVs flying in the countryside doing …

Blockchain and 5G integrated softwarized UAV network management: Architecture, solutions, and challenges

R Gupta, S Tanwar, N Kumar - Physical communication, 2021 - Elsevier
Network management for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is challenging, keeping in view
the high mobility of the vehicles. Hence, for smooth execution of various operations such as …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptable and automated small uav deployments via virtualization

B Nogales, V Sanchez-Aguero, I Vidal, F Valera - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present a practical solution to support the adaptable and automated
deployment of applications of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (SUAVs). Our solution is …

UAV virtualization for enabling heterogeneous and persistent UAV-as-a-service

N Pathak, S Misra, A Mukherjee, A Roy… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose an architecture for UAV virtualization with the primary aim of
providing virtualized UAV services to multiple users by envisioning the concept of UAV-as-a …

An NFV‐based energy scheduling algorithm for a 5G enabled fleet of programmable unmanned aerial vehicles

C Tipantuña, X Hesselbach… - Wireless …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The fifth generation of mobile networks (5G) is expected to provide diverse and stringent
improvements such as greater connectivity, bandwidth, throughput, availability, improved …

Reinforcement learning-based optimization framework for application component migration in NFV cloud-fog environments

SN Afrasiabi, A Ebrahimzadeh… - … on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By decoupling network functions from the underlying hardware, Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) allows application components to be implemented as sets of Virtual …