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 …

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 …

Mobile edge computing via a UAV-mounted cloudlet: Optimization of bit allocation and path planning

S Jeong, O Simeone, J Kang - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently considered as means to provide
enhanced coverage or relaying services to mobile users (MUs) in wireless systems with …

Routing in flying ad hoc networks: Survey, constraints, and future challenge perspectives

OS Oubbati, M Atiquzzaman, P Lorenz… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to the explosive expansion of wireless communication and networking technologies,
cost-effective unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently emerged and soon they will …

Drones for smart cities: Issues in cybersecurity, privacy, and public safety

E Vattapparamban, I Güvenç, AI Yurekli… - 2016 international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is expected that drones will take a major role in the connected smart cities of the future.
They will be delivering goods and merchandise, serving as mobile hot spots for broadband …

LTE in the sky: Trading off propagation benefits with interference costs for aerial nodes

B Van Der Bergh, A Chiumento… - IEEE Communications …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles has exploded over the last few years, urgently
demanding solutions to transfer large amounts of data from the UAV to the ground …

Multi-UAV-aided networks: Aerial-ground cooperative vehicular networking architecture

Y Zhou, N Cheng, N Lu, XS Shen - ieee vehicular technology …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, an aerial-ground cooperative vehicular networking architecture is proposed.
Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), forming an aerial subnetwork, aid the ground …

A survey on cellular-connected UAVs: Design challenges, enabling 5G/B5G innovations, and experimental advancements

D Mishra, E Natalizio - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
As an emerging field of aerial robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained
significant research interest within the wireless networking research community. As soon as …

Flying ad hoc networks: A new domain for network communications

A Guillen-Perez, MD Cano - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
The advent of flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) has opened an opportunity to create new
added-value services. Even though it is clear that these networks share common features …

A dynamic trajectory control algorithm for improving the communication throughput and delay in UAV-aided networks

ZM Fadlullah, D Takaishi, H Nishiyama, N Kato… - IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the UAS has been extensively exploited for data collection from remote and
dangerous or inaccessible areas. While most of its existing applications have been directed …