Machine learning-aided operations and communications of unmanned aerial vehicles: A contemporary survey

H Kurunathan, H Huang, K Li, W Ni… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have provided pervasive, efficient,
and cost-effective solutions for data collection and communications. Their excellent mobility …

Path planning based on deep reinforcement learning for autonomous underwater vehicles under ocean current disturbance

Z Chu, F Wang, T Lei, C Luo - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The path planning issue of the underactuated autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) under
ocean current disturbance is studied in this paper. In order to improve the AUV's path …

[HTML][HTML] Non-terrestrial uav clients for beyond 5g networks: A comprehensive survey

MMH Qazzaz, SAR Zaidi, DC McLernon, AM Hayajneh… - Ad Hoc Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid proliferation of consumer UAVs, or drones, is resha** the wireless
communication landscape. These agile, autonomous devices find new life as UE in cellular …

Decentralized, privacy-preserving routing of cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles for joint goods delivery and sensing

B Liu, W Ni, RP Liu, YJ Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively applied to goods delivery and in-
situ sensing. It becomes increasingly probable that multiple UAVs are delivering goods and …

A transfer learning approach for UAV path design with connectivity outage constraint

G Fontanesi, A Zhu, M Arvaneh… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The connectivity-aware path design is crucial in the effective deployment of autonomous
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have …

Energy-aware trajectory design for outage minimization in UAV-assisted communication systems

N Gupta, D Mishra, S Agarwal - IEEE Transactions on Green …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the flight trajectory of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to provide fifth-
generation (5G) cellular service in a given area. We consider a single UAV launched from …

Ground-to-air communications beyond 5G: A coordinated multipoint transmission based on Poisson-Delaunay triangulation

Y Li, M **a - IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper designs a novel ground-to-air communication scheme to serve unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) through legacy terrestrial base stations (BSs). In particular, a tractable …

LEOPARD: Parallel optimal deep echo state network prediction improves service coverage for UAV-assisted outdoor hotspots

H Peng, AH Tsai, LC Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations (BSs) can help meet the dynamic traffic
demand of flash mobile crowds, but user movements also pose a significant challenge on …

Age of information minimization for uav-assisted internet of things networks: A safe actor-critic with policy distillation approach

F Fu, X Wei, Z Zhang, LT Yang, L Cai… - … on Network Science …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to smart manufacturing and artificial intelligence technologies, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to play a critical role in future Internet of things (IoT) …

Joint Optimization of User Association, Power Control, and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for Integrated Aerial-Terrestrial Network

AS Matar, X Shen - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel integrated aerial-terrestrial multi-operator network in which
each operator deploys a number of unmanned aerial vehicle-base stations (UAV-BSs) …