The drone scheduling problem: A systematic state-of-the-art review

J Pasha, Z Elmi, S Purkayastha… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones are receiving popularity with time due to their advanced mobility. Although they were
initially deployed for military purposes, they now have a wide array of applications in various …

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 …

Towards 6G-enabled internet of vehicles: Security and privacy

DPM Osorio, I Ahmad, JDV Sánchez… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The conceptualisation of the sixth generation of mobile wireless networks (6G) has already
started with some potential disruptive technologies resonating as enablers for driving the …

Breaking the interference and fading gridlock in backscatter communications: State-of-the-art, design challenges, and future directions

B Gu, D Li, H Ding, G Wang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the Internet of Things (IoT) advances by leaps and bounds, a multitude of devices are
becoming interconnected, marking the onset of an era where everything is connected. While …

Throughput maximization for backscatter-and cache-assisted wireless powered UAV technology

DH Tran, S Chatzinotas… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates a wireless powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication
network with backscatter and caching technologies. Specifically, we assume a self …

Federated deep reinforcement learning based trajectory design for UAV-assisted networks with mobile ground devices

Y Gao, M Liu, X Yuan, Y Hu, P Sun, A Schmeink - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Exploiting highly maneuverable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been considered as
an efficient way to assist wireless systems, eg, for applications of data collection. However …

Energy-efficient secure video streaming in UAV-enabled wireless networks: A safe-DQN approach

Z Zhang, Q Zhang, J Miao, FR Yu, F Fu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are anticipated to be integrated into the next generation
wireless networks as new aerial mobile nodes, which can provide various live streaming …

Path planning for UAV communication networks: Related technologies, solutions, and opportunities

J Luo, Z Wang, M **a, L Wu, Y Tian, Y Chen - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Path planning has been a hot and challenging field in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). With
the increasing demand of society and the continuous progress of technologies, UAV …

Broadcast secrecy rate maximization in UAV-empowered IRS backscatter communications

S Han, J Wang, L **ao, C Li - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The backscatter communications (BackCom) and physical layer security are respected to
realize extremely low-power secure communications in the imminent sixth generation (6G) …

UAV-aided backscatter communications: Performance analysis and trajectory optimization

R Han, L Bai, Y Wen, J Liu, J Choi… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In 5G massive machine-type communication (mMTC), power-limited or battery-free parasite
devices such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, can use the transmitted signals …