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 …

What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? A flight from 5G to 6G

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, MM Azari… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address
such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and …

IRS-assisted secure UAV transmission via joint trajectory and beamforming design

X Pang, N Zhao, J Tang, C Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the wide utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAV communications are
susceptible to eavesdrop** due to air-ground line-of-sight channels. Intelligent reflecting …

When UAV meets IRS: Expanding air-ground networks via passive reflection

X Pang, M Sheng, N Zhao, J Tang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to their flexibility and mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely
applied in wireless networks. However, UAV communications may suffer from blockage and …

A comprehensive overview on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: From communications to sensing and intelligence

Q Wu, J Xu, Y Zeng, DWK Ng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular
infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and …

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 …

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) …

A comprehensive survey on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: Applications, emerging technologies, regulatory aspects, research trends and challenges

MK Banafaa, Ö Pepeoğlu, I Shayea… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid advancement of fifth-generation (5G)-and-beyond networks coupled with
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has opened up exciting possibilities for diverse …

Robust secure UAV communications with the aid of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

S Li, B Duo, M Di Renzo, M Tao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) secure communication
system with the assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where a UAV and a …

Computation offloading optimization for UAV-assisted mobile edge computing: a deep deterministic policy gradient approach

Y Wang, W Fang, Y Ding, N **ong - Wireless Networks, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) can play an important role in wireless systems as it
can be deployed flexibly to help improve coverage and quality of communication. In this …