Understanding UAV cellular communications: From existing networks to massive MIMO

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, LG Giordano… - Ieee …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purpose of this paper is to bestow the reader with a timely study of UAV cellular
communications, bridging the gap between the 3GPP standardization status quo and the …

Random 3D mobile UAV networks: Mobility modeling and coverage probability

PK Sharma, DI Kim - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the coverage performance of a reference user equipment (UE)
in a finite network of multiple three-dimensional (3D) mobile unmanned aerial vehicles …

A unified spatial framework for UAV-aided mmWave networks

W Yi, Y Liu, E Bodanese, A Nallanathan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, we propose
a unified three-dimensional (3D) spatial framework in this paper to model a general case …

Joint access and backhaul resource management in satellite-drone networks: A competitive market approach

Y Hu, M Chen, W Saad - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the problem of user association and resource allocation is studied for an
integrated satellite-drone network (ISDN). In the considered model, drone base stations …

Multi-layer unmanned aerial vehicle networks: Modeling and performance analysis

D Kim, J Lee, TQS Quek - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we establish a foundation for the multi-layer aerial networks (MANs), which are
modeled as K layer aerial networks (ANs), where each layer has unmanned aerial vehicles …

Backhaul for low-altitude UAVs in urban environments

B Galkin, J Kibilda, LA DaSilva - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) acting as access points in cellular networks require
wireless backhauls to the core network. In this paper we employ stochastic geometry to carry …

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 …

Opportunistic relaying for low-altitude UAV swarm secure communications with multiple eavesdroppers

H Liu, SJ Yoo, KS Kwak - Journal of Communications and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we investigate the secrecy outage performance achieved by opportunistic
relaying for a low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm secure communication …

Laser-powered UAVs for wireless communication coverage: A large-scale deployment strategy

MA Lahmeri, MA Kishk… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is strongly advocated for sixth-generation (6G)
networks, as the 6G standard will not be limited to improving broadband services, but will …

Clustered UAV networks with millimeter wave communications: A stochastic geometry view

W Yi, Y Liu, Y Deng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to satisfy the requirement of high throughput in most UAV applications, the potential
of integrating millimeter wave (mmWave) communications with UAV networks is explored in …