A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction

A Jahid, MH Alsharif, TJ Hall - Journal of network and computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the unprecedented growth of high speed multimedia services and diversified
applications initiated from the massive connectivity of IoT devices, 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) …

The drone scheduling problem: A systematic state-of-the-art review

J Pasha, Z Elmi, S Purkayastha… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones are receiving popularity with time due to their advanced mobility. Although they were
initially deployed for military purposes, they now have a wide array of applications in various …

Outage probability and average BER of UAV-assisted dual-hop FSO communication with amplify-and-forward relaying

G Xu, N Zhang, M Xu, Z Xu, Q Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be harnessed as relay nodes in free-space optical
(FSO) communication systems to realize a flexible and cost-effective approach for delivering …

MIMO satellite communication systems: A survey from the PHY layer perspective

J Heo, S Sung, H Lee, I Hwang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The satellite communications (SatCom) system is a representative technology for global
coverage and seamless communications in next-generation communication systems. This …

Uplink secrecy performance of RIS-based RF/FSO three-dimension heterogeneous networks

D Wang, M Wu, Z Wei, K Yu, L Min… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted HAP-UAV secure multi-
user mixed radio frequency (RF)/free space optical (FSO) system is proposed. Specifically …

Uplink massive access in mixed RF/FSO satellite-aerial-terrestrial networks

Q Huang, M Lin, WP Zhu, J Cheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the massive access for a satellite-aerial-terrestrial network (SATN),
where a high-altitude platform (HAP) is deployed as a relay to assist the uplink transmission …

RIS-assisted UAV for fresh data collection in 3D urban environments: A deep reinforcement learning approach

X Fan, M Liu, Y Chen, S Sun, Z Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dispatching flexible unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect data from distributed
Internet-of-Things devices (IoTDs) is expected to be a promising technology to support time …

Performance analysis of hybrid satellite-terrestrial cooperative networks with relay selection

K Guo, M Lin, B Zhang, JB Wang, Y Wu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper conducts the performance analysis of a hybrid satellite-terrestrial cooperative
network (HSTCN) having multi-antenna terrestrial relays. By assuming the availability of the …

Performance of UAV-assisted multiuser terrestrial-satellite communication system over mixed FSO/RF channels

PK Singya, MS Alouini - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, performance of a multiantenna multiuser unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-
assisted terrestrial-satellite communication system over mixed free space optics …

Drone networking in the 6G era: A technology overview

D Mishra, AM Vegni, V Loscrí… - IEEE Communications …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sixth generation (6G) wireless communication networks are envisioned to be empowered
with novel enabling technologies to guarantee ubiquitous coverage requirements …