A survey on UAV-assisted wireless communications: Recent advances and future trends

X Gu, G Zhang - Computer Communications, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Due to their characteristics of mobility, flexibility and adaptive altitude, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have immense potential applications in wireless …

[HTML][HTML] Green UAV communications for 6G: A survey

X Jiang, M Sheng, Z Nan, X Chengwen… - Chinese journal of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have received a wide range of attention for
military and commercial applications. Enhanced with communication capability, UAVs are …

Safeguarding next-generation multiple access using physical layer security techniques: A tutorial

L Lv, D Xu, RQ Hu, Y Ye, L Yang, X Lei… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by the ever-increasing requirements of ultrahigh spectral efficiency, ultralow latency,
and massive connectivity, the forefront of wireless research calls for the design of advanced …

3D UAV trajectory design and frequency band allocation for energy-efficient and fair communication: A deep reinforcement learning approach

R Ding, F Gao, XS Shen - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication has drawn increasing attention
recently. In this paper, we investigate 3D UAV trajectory design and band allocation problem …

UAV-enabled secure communications by multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

Y Zhang, Z Mou, F Gao, J Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be employed as aerial base stations to support
communication for the ground users (GUs). However, the aerial-to-ground (A2G) channel …

Semi-distributed resource management in UAV-aided MEC systems: A multi-agent federated reinforcement learning approach

Y Nie, J Zhao, F Gao, FR Yu - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled multi-access edge computing (MEC) has
been introduced as a promising edge paradigm for the future space-aerial-terrestrial …

Security threats and mitigation techniques in UAV communications: A comprehensive survey

GK Pandey, DS Gurjar, HH Nguyen, S Yadav - IEEE Access, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been instrumental in enabling many new
applications and services, including military and rescue operations, aerial surveillance …

The drone scheduling problem: A systematic state-of-the-art review

J Pasha, Z Elmi, S Purkayastha… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones are receiving popularity with time due to their advanced mobility. Although they were
initially deployed for military purposes, they now have a wide array of applications in various …

Task offloading for post-disaster rescue in unmanned aerial vehicles networks

Y Wang, W Chen, TH Luan, Z Su, Q Xu… - IEEE/ACM …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Natural disasters often cause huge and unpredictable losses to human lives and properties.
In such an emergency post-disaster rescue situation, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are …

Unmanned-aerial-vehicle-assisted wireless networks: Advancements, challenges, and solutions

M Dai, N Huang, Y Wu, J Gao… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid development of communication and computing techniques enables unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) to provide reliable and cost-effective wireless communication and …