What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? A flight from 5G to 6G

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, MM Azari… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address
such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and …

A comprehensive overview on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: From communications to sensing and intelligence

Q Wu, J Xu, Y Zeng, DWK Ng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular
infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and …

A survey on millimeter-wave beamforming enabled UAV communications and networking

Z **ao, L Zhu, Y Liu, P Yi, R Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military
applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for …

A comprehensive survey on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: Applications, emerging technologies, regulatory aspects, research trends and challenges

MK Banafaa, Ö Pepeoğlu, I Shayea… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid advancement of fifth-generation (5G)-and-beyond networks coupled with
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has opened up exciting possibilities for diverse …

Robust secure UAV communications with the aid of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

S Li, B Duo, M Di Renzo, M Tao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) secure communication
system with the assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where a UAV and a …

URLLC facilitated by mobile UAV relay and RIS: A joint design of passive beamforming, blocklength, and UAV positioning

A Ranjha, G Kaddoum - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Upcoming fifth-generation (5G) networks need to support novel ultrareliable and low-latency
(URLLC) traffic that utilizes short packets. This requires a paradigm shift as traditional …

Power scaling law analysis and phase shift optimization of RIS-aided massive MIMO systems with statistical CSI

K Zhi, C Pan, H Ren, K Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers an uplink reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, where the phase shifts of the RIS are …

Resource management for transmit power minimization in UAV-assisted RIS HetNets supported by dual connectivity

A Khalili, EM Monfared, S Zargari… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel approach to improve the performance of a heterogeneous
network (HetNet) supported by dual connectivity (DC) by adopting multiple unmanned aerial …

3D-trajectory and phase-shift design for RIS-assisted UAV systems using deep reinforcement learning

H Mei, K Yang, Q Liu, K Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can effectively work as temporary base station or access
point in the air to transfer/receive data to/from ground terminals (GTs). However, UAV-GT …

RIS-assisted UAV communications for IoT with wireless power transfer using deep reinforcement learning

KK Nguyen, A Masaracchia, V Sharma… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many of the devices used in Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications are energy-limited, and
thus supplying energy while maintaining seamless connectivity for IoT devices is of …