Survey on UAV cellular communications: Practical aspects, standardization advancements, regulation, and security challenges

A Fotouhi, H Qiang, M Ding, M Hassan… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid growth of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is creating promising new
business opportunities for cellular operators. On the one hand, UAVs can be connected to …

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 …

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-assisted emergency networks in disasters

N Zhao, W Lu, M Sheng, Y Chen, J Tang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliable and flexible emergency communication is a key challenge for search and rescue in
the event of disasters, especially for the case when base stations are no longer functioning …

[HTML][HTML] Green UAV communications for 6G: A survey

X Jiang, M Sheng, Z Nan, X Chengwen… - Chinese journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have received a wide range of attention for
military and commercial applications. Enhanced with communication capability, UAVs are …

UAV-enabled secure communications by multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

Y Zhang, Z Mou, F Gao, J Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be employed as aerial base stations to support
communication for the ground users (GUs). However, the aerial-to-ground (A2G) channel …

Joint trajectory and precoding optimization for UAV-assisted NOMA networks

N Zhao, X Pang, Z Li, Y Chen, F Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The explosive data traffic and connections in 5G networks require the use of non-orthogonal
multiple access (NOMA) to accommodate more users. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can …

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 …

UAV-assisted communications with RF energy harvesting: A comprehensive survey

GK Pandey, DS Gurjar, S Yadav… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently achieved sky-rocketed prominence in
assisting various wireless communication scenarios due to their implicit characteristics like …

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 …