A tutorial on UAVs for wireless networks: Applications, challenges, and open problems

M Mozaffari, W Saad, M Bennis… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as
drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility …

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 …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): A survey on civil applications and key research challenges

H Shakhatreh, AH Sawalmeh, A Al-Fuqaha, Z Dou… - Ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil
application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote …

3-D placement of an unmanned aerial vehicle base station (UAV-BS) for energy-efficient maximal coverage

M Alzenad, A El-Keyi, F Lagum… - IEEE Wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle mounted base stations (UAV-BSs) can provide wireless services
in a variety of scenarios. In this letter, we propose an optimal placement algorithm for UAV …

Computation rate maximization in UAV-enabled wireless-powered mobile-edge computing systems

F Zhou, Y Wu, RQ Hu, Y Qian - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer are two promising techniques to
enhance the computation capability and to prolong the operational time of low-power …

3-D placement of an unmanned aerial vehicle base station for maximum coverage of users with different QoS requirements

M Alzenad, A El-Keyi… - IEEE Wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need for a rapid-to-deploy solution for providing wireless cellular services can be
realized by unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs). To the best of our …

A novel cost optimization strategy for SDN-enabled UAV-assisted vehicular computation offloading

L Zhao, K Yang, Z Tan, X Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicular computation offloading is a well-received strategy to execute delay-sensitive
and/or compute-intensive tasks of legacy vehicles. The response time of vehicular …

Cellular-enabled UAV communication: A connectivity-constrained trajectory optimization perspective

S Zhang, Y Zeng, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the cellular network is envisioned to
be a promising technology to significantly enhance the communication performance of both …

Design challenges of multi-UAV systems in cyber-physical applications: A comprehensive survey and future directions

R Shakeri, MA Al-Garadi, A Badawy… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently rapidly grown to facilitate a wide range of
innovative applications that can fundamentally change the way cyber-physical systems …

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 …