UAV-assisted data collection for Internet of Things: A survey

Z Wei, M Zhu, N Zhang, L Wang, Y Zou… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the advantages of flexible deployment and high mobility, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) have been widely applied in the areas of disaster management, agricultural …

Holistic network virtualization and pervasive network intelligence for 6G

X Shen, J Gao, W Wu, M Li, C Zhou… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this tutorial paper, we look into the evolution and prospect of network architecture and
propose a novel conceptual architecture for the 6th generation (6G) networks. The proposed …

AI for UAV-assisted IoT applications: A comprehensive review

N Cheng, S Wu, X Wang, Z Yin, C Li… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), there are a dramatically
increasing number of devices, leading to the fact that only using terrestrial infrastructure can …

Intelligent reflecting surface-aided wireless communications: A tutorial

Q Wu, S Zhang, B Zheng, C You… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal
propagation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number …

A survey on UAV-assisted wireless communications: Recent advances and future trends

X Gu, G Zhang - Computer Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their characteristics of mobility, flexibility and adaptive altitude, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have immense potential applications in wireless …

A survey on millimeter-wave beamforming enabled UAV communications and networking

Z **ao, L Zhu, Y Liu, P Yi, R Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military
applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for …

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 …

Sum-rate maximization for IRS-assisted UAV OFDMA communication systems

Z Wei, Y Cai, Z Sun, DWK Ng, J Yuan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the application of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV)-based orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) …

Survey on aerial radio access networks: Toward a comprehensive 6G access infrastructure

NN Dao, QV Pham, NH Tu, TT Thanh… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current access infrastructures are characterized by heterogeneity, low latency, high
throughput, and high computational capability, enabling massive concurrent connections …

UAV-assisted wireless powered cooperative mobile edge computing: Joint offloading, CPU control, and trajectory optimization

Y Liu, K **ong, Q Ni, P Fan… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered
cooperative mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a UAV installed with an energy …