Accessing from the sky: A tutorial on UAV communications for 5G and beyond

Y Zeng, Q Wu, R Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to
bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling …

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 …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted UAV communication: Joint trajectory design and passive beamforming

S Li, B Duo, X Yuan, YC Liang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the line-of-sight (LoS) transmission and flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) effectively improve the throughput of wireless networks. Nevertheless, the LoS links …

Optimization approaches for civil applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or aerial drones: A survey

A Otto, N Agatz, J Campbell, B Golden, E Pesch - Networks, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or aerial drones, are an emerging technology with
significant market potential. UAVs may lead to substantial cost savings in, for instance …

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 …

Mobile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for energy-efficient Internet of Things communications

M Mozaffari, W Saad, M Bennis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the efficient deployment and mobility of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), used as aerial base stations to collect data from ground Internet of Things (IoT) …

Energy-efficient UAV communication with trajectory optimization

Y Zeng, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on wireless …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communication with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a promising technology
for future communication systems. In this paper, assuming that the UAV flies horizontally with …

Energy-efficient data collection in UAV enabled wireless sensor network

C Zhan, Y Zeng, R Zhang - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In wireless sensor networks, utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data
collector for the sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network …

Securing UAV communications via joint trajectory and power control

G Zhang, Q Wu, M Cui, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is anticipated to be widely applied in the
forthcoming fifth-generation wireless networks, due to its many advantages such as low cost …