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 …

A survey of channel modeling for UAV communications

AA Khuwaja, Y Chen, N Zhao… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in rapid deployment for both
civil and military applications. UAV communication has its own distinctive channel …

A survey of air-to-ground propagation channel modeling for unmanned aerial vehicles

W Khawaja, I Guvenc, DW Matolak… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), particularly for small UAVs, due to their affordable prices, wide availability, and …

A comprehensive survey on UAV communication channel modeling

C Yan, L Fu, J Zhang, J Wang - IEEE Access, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have stroke great interested both by the academic
community and the industrial community due to their diverse military applications and …

A survey on channel sounding technologies and measurements for UAV-assisted communications

K Mao, Q Zhu, CX Wang, X Ye… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in both military and civilian
applications, where a stable communication link is vital for safe flight control and robust data …

Survey on unmanned aerial vehicle networks: A cyber physical system perspective

H Wang, H Zhao, J Zhang, D Ma, J Li… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are playing an important role in various areas due
to their agility and versatility, which have attracted significant attentions from both the …

Flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs): A survey

I Bekmezci, OK Sahingoz, Ş Temel - Ad Hoc Networks, 2013‏ - Elsevier
One of the most important design problems for multi-UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) systems
is the communication which is crucial for cooperation and collaboration between the UAVs. If …

Optimization of UAV heading for the ground-to-air uplink

F Jiang, AL Swindlehurst - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a collection of single-antenna ground nodes communicating with a multi-
antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over a multiple-access ground-to-air …

An empirical air-to-ground channel model based on passive measurements in LTE

X Cai, J Rodríguez-Piñeiro, X Yin… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a recently conducted measurement campaign for unmanned-aerial-vehicle
channels is introduced. The downlink signals of an in-service long-time-evolution network …

Air-to-ground channel characterization for low-height UAVs in realistic network deployments

J Rodríguez-Piñeiro… - … on Antennas and …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the decrease in cost, size, and weight, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are
becoming more and more popular for general-purpose civil and commercial applications …