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 …

Unmanned aerial vehicle communications for civil applications: A review

M Ghamari, P Rangel, M Mehrubeoglu… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly
increased across a variety of applications over the past few years. This is due to the rapid …

Topology control algorithms in multi-unmanned aerial vehicle networks: An extensive survey

MM Alam, MY Arafat, S Moh, J Shen - Journal of network and computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted increased attention from
academic and industrial research communities, owing to their wide range of potential …

Aerial computing: A new computing paradigm, applications, and challenges

QV Pham, R Ruby, F Fang, DC Nguyen… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In existing computing systems, such as edge computing and cloud computing, several
emerging applications and practical scenarios are mostly unavailable or only partially …

AoI-minimal clustering, transmission and trajectory co-design for UAV-assisted WPCNs

X Liu, H Liu, K Zheng, J Liu, T Taleb… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the long-term average age of information (AoI)-minimal problem in
an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless-powered communication network …

Resource allocation for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer systems: A tutorial overview

Z Wei, X Yu, DWK Ng, R Schober - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last decade, simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has
become a practical and promising solution for connecting and recharging battery-limited …

A two-stage strategy for UAV-enabled wireless power transfer in unknown environments

J Shi, P Cong, L Zhao, X Wang, S Wan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the outstanding merits such as mobility, high maneuverability, and flexibility,
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are viable mobile power transmitters that can be rapidly …

A comprehensive survey on aerial mobile edge computing: Challenges, state-of-the-art, and future directions

Z Song, X Qin, Y Hao, T Hou, J Wang, X Sun - Computer Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by the visions of Internet of Things (IoT), there is an ever-increasing demand for
computation resources of IoT users to support diverse applications. Mobile edge computing …

[HTML][HTML] Wireless power transfer with unmanned aerial vehicles: State of the art and open challenges

T Ojha, TP Raptis, A Passarella, M Conti - Pervasive and mobile computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Wireless power transfer (WPT) techniques are emerging as a fundamental component of
next-generation energy management in mobile networks. In this context, the use of UAVs …

Sustainable RF wireless energy transfer for massive IoT: Enablers and challenges

OM Rosabal, OLA López, H Alves, M Latva-Aho - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliable energy supply remains a crucial challenge in the Internet of Things (IoT). Although
relying on batteries is cost-effective for a few devices, it is neither a scalable nor a …