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 …

UAV communications for 5G and beyond: Recent advances and future trends

B Li, Z Fei, Y Zhang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing ubiquitous connectivity to diverse device types is the key challenge for 5G and
beyond 5G (B5G). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important …

Energy minimization for wireless communication with rotary-wing UAV

Y Zeng, J Xu, R Zhang - IEEE transactions on wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communication, where
a rotary-wing UAV is dispatched to communicate with multiple ground nodes (GNs). We aim …

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 …

A vision and framework for the high altitude platform station (HAPS) networks of the future

GK Kurt, MG Khoshkholgh, S Alfattani… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) is a network node that operates in the stratosphere
at an of altitude around 20 km and is instrumental for providing communication services …

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 …

A survey of channel modeling for UAV communications

AA Khuwaja, Y Chen, N Zhao… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in rapid deployment for both
civil and military applications. UAV communication has its own distinctive channel …

Cellular-connected UAV: Potential, challenges, and promising technologies

Y Zeng, J Lyu, R Zhang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enabling high-rate, low-latency and ultra-reliable wireless communications between UAVs
and their associated ground pilots/users is of paramount importance to realize their large …