A survey of wireless networks for future aerial communications (FACOM)

A Baltaci, E Dinc, M Ozger, A Alabbasi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrification turned over a new leaf in aviation by introducing new types of aerial vehicles
along with new means of transportation. Addressing a plethora of use cases, drones are …

Survey on optimization methods for LEO-satellite-based networks with applications in future autonomous transportation

K Çelikbilek, Z Saleem, R Morales Ferre, J Praks… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Future autonomous transportation is one of the most demanding application areas in terms
of connectivity, as it has to simultaneously meet stringent criteria that do not typically go …

Air-to-ground transmission and near real-time visualization of FBG sensor data via cloud database

AC Marceddu, G Quattrocchi, A Aimasso… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During the last decades, innovative aircraft health management systems have been
receiving increasing interest from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and aircraft …

Autonomous 3-D UAV localization using cellular networks: Deep supervised learning versus reinforcement learning approaches

G Afifi, Y Gadallah - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming an integral part of numerous commercial
and military applications. In many of these applications, the UAV is required to self-navigate …

Open source software radio platform for research on cellular networked UAVs: It works!

AS Abdalla, A Yingst, K Powell… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cellular network-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) experience different radio
propagation conditions than radio nodes on the ground. Therefore, it has become critical to …

Cellular Network-Supported Machine Learning Techniques for Autonomous UAV Trajectory Planning

G Afifi, Y Gadallah - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous trajectory planning is a hot topic in the UAV mission planning area of research.
Autonomous UAVs have major use case applications which involve navigation in complex …

LEO Satellite Networking Relaunched: Survey and Current Research Challenges

C Westphal, L Han, R Li - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.07646, 2023 - arxiv.org
This document surveys recent and current developments in LEO satellite networking. It
presents a brief overview of satellite networking in order to contextualize the issue. It then …

The sky is not the limit: Unveiling operational 5G potentials in the sky

Y Liu, J Huang, C Peng - 2024 IEEE/ACM 32nd International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present our measurement study to characterize and analyze operational 5G
performance potentials for cellular-connected drones that fly in the low sky. We not only …