Cellular, wide-area, and non-terrestrial IoT: A survey on 5G advances and the road toward 6G

M Vaezi, A Azari, SR Khosravirad… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next wave of wireless technologies is proliferating in connecting things among
themselves as well as to humans. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of …

Evolution of non-terrestrial networks from 5G to 6G: A survey

MM Azari, S Solanki, S Chatzinotas… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) traditionally have certain limited applications. However, the
recent technological advancements and manufacturing cost reduction opened up myriad …

Average AoI minimization in UAV-assisted data collection with RF wireless power transfer: A deep reinforcement learning scheme

L Liu, K **ong, J Cao, Y Lu, P Fan… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless powered network,
where a UAV is dispatched to wirelessly charge multiple ground nodes (GNs) by using radio …

A survey of indoor and outdoor uav-based target tracking systems: Current status, challenges, technologies, and future directions

M Alhafnawi, HAB Salameh, A Masadeh… - IEEE …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to their distinctive features, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently
exploited to support a wide range of applications. The features include low maintenance …

A survey on multiuser SWIPT communications for 5G+

S Özyurt, AF Coşkun, S Büyükçorak, GK Kurt… - IEEE …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasing number of devices connected to the networks, applications and demands of new
generation wireless communications cause very high energy consumption resulting in large …

[HTML][HTML] Towards sustainable industry 4.0: A survey on greening IoE in 6G networks

SH Alsamhi, A Hawbani, R Sahal, S Srivastava… - Ad Hoc Networks, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The dramatic recent increase of the smart Internet of Everything (IoE) in Industry 4.0 has
significantly increased energy consumption, carbon emissions, and global warming. IoE …

User scheduling and trajectory optimization for energy-efficient IRS-UAV networks with SWIPT

S Zargari, A Hakimi, C Tellambura… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates user scheduling and trajectory optimization for a network supported
by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The …

On the ground and in the sky: A tutorial on radio localization in ground-air-space networks

H Sallouha, S Saleh, S De Bast, Z Cui… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The inherent limitations in scaling up ground infrastructure for future wireless networks,
combined with decreasing operational costs of aerial and space networks, are driving …

Fairness enhancement of UAV systems with hybrid active-passive RIS

NT Nguyen, VD Nguyen, H Van Nguyen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless systems where downlink
communications between a multi-antenna UAV and multiple users are assisted by a hybrid …

Flexible and reliable multiuser SWIPT IoT network enhanced by UAV-mounted intelligent reflecting surface

Y Liu, F Han, S Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) cooperated with the simultaneous wireless information
and power transfer (SWIPT) can reinforce the desired signal and deal with the energy supply …