A tutorial on UAVs for wireless networks: Applications, challenges, and open problems

M Mozaffari, W Saad, M Bennis… - … surveys & tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as
drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): A survey on civil applications and key research challenges

H Shakhatreh, AH Sawalmeh, A Al-Fuqaha, Z Dou… - Ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil
application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote …

UAV-enabled healthcare architecture: Issues and challenges

S Ullah, KI Kim, KH Kim, M Imran, P Khan… - Future Generation …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have great potential to revolutionize the future of
automotive, energy, and healthcare sectors by working as wireless relays to improve …

Multiple UAV systems: A survey

G Skorobogatov, C Barrado, E Salamí - Unmanned Systems, 2020 - World Scientific
Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used in many different applications.
Using systems of multiple UAVs is the next obvious step in the process of applying this …

Multiple UAVs as relays: Multi-hop single link versus multiple dual-hop links

Y Chen, N Zhao, Z Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found many important applications in
communications. They can serve as either aerial base stations or mobile relays to improve …

Joint coverage, connectivity, and charging strategies for distributed UAV networks

A Trotta, M Di Felice, F Montori… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes deployment strategies for consumer unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
to maximize the stationary coverage of a target area and to guarantee the continuity of the …

Energy efficient 3-D UAV control for persistent communication service and fairness: A deep reinforcement learning approach

H Qi, Z Hu, H Huang, X Wen, Z Lu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as flying wireless communication platform have
attracted much attention. Benefiting from the mobility, UAV aerial base stations can be …

Efficient 3D placement of a UAV using particle swarm optimization

H Shakhatreh, A Khreishah, A Alsarhan… - … on Information and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when
cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider …

Communication aware UAV swarm surveillance based on hierarchical architecture

C Xu, K Zhang, Y Jiang, S Niu, T Yang, H Song - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Multi-agent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) teaming becomes an essential part in science
mission, modern warfare surveillance, and disaster rescuing. This paper proposes a …

Energy efficiency and hover time optimization in UAV-based HetNets

ST Muntaha, SA Hassan, H Jung… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate the downlink performance of a three-tier heterogeneous
network (HetNet). The objective is to enhance the edge capacity of a macro cell by …