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 …

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 …

A survey of air-to-ground propagation channel modeling for unmanned aerial vehicles

W Khawaja, I Guvenc, DW Matolak… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), particularly for small UAVs, due to their affordable prices, wide availability, and …

Energy-efficient UAV control for effective and fair communication coverage: A deep reinforcement learning approach

CH Liu, Z Chen, J Tang, J Xu… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to serve as aerial base stations to enhance
both the coverage and performance of communication networks in various scenarios, such …

UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges

B Alzahrani, OS Oubbati, A Barnawi… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology with the potential to
be used in industries and various sectors of human life to provide a wide range of …

Energy efficient resource allocation in UAV-enabled mobile edge computing networks

Z Yang, C Pan, K Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the sum power minimization problem via jointly optimizing user
association, power control, computation capacity allocation, and location planning in a …

Routing in flying ad hoc networks: A comprehensive survey

DS Lakew, U Sa'ad, NN Dao, W Na… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is attracting considerable interest in academic
research, commercial, and military applications. Multi-UAV systems organized in an ad hoc …

UAV trajectory planning for data collection from time-constrained IoT devices

M Samir, S Sharafeddine, CM Assi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The global evolution of wireless technologies and intelligent sensing devices are
transforming the realization of smart cities. Among the myriad of use cases, there is a need …