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 …

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 …

UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges

B Alzahrani, OS Oubbati, A Barnawi… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology with the potential to
be used in industries and various sectors of human life to provide a wide range of …

Cognition in UAV-aided 5G and beyond communications: A survey

Z Ullah, F Al-Turjman, L Mostarda - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attained significant interest in
different applications including aerial surveillance, providing wireless coverage, precision …

UAV-to-UAV communications in cellular networks

MM Azari, G Geraci… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a cellular network deployment where UAV-to-UAV (U2U) transmit-receive pairs
share the same spectrum with the uplink (UL) of cellular ground users (GUEs). For this …

Analysis of UAV communications in cell-free massive MIMO systems

C D'Andrea, A Garcia-Rodriguez… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free
massive MIMO architecture, wherein a large number of access points (APs) is deployed in …

Resource orchestration and allocation of E2E slices in softwarized UAVs-assisted 6G terrestrial networks

H Cao, N Kumar, L Yang, M Guizani… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely recognized as crucial supplementary
component of 6G networks. Owing to the key attributes of UAVs (mobility, flexibility, and …

Blockchain enabled verification for cellular-connected unmanned aircraft system networking

J Wang, Y Liu, S Niu, H Song, W **g, J Yuan - Future Generation …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The emerging 5G New Radio (5G NR) stimulates the evolution of applications in
many fields. Compared with 4G, 5G NR can provide much more reliable, efficient, flexible …

Uplink NOMA for cellular-connected UAV: Impact of UAV trajectories and altitude

N Senadhira, S Durrani, X Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers an emerging cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
architecture for surveillance or monitoring applications. We study a scenario of interest …

Cell-free massive MIMO for UAV communications

C D'Andrea, A Garcia-Rodriguez… - 2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free
massive MIMO architecture. Under the general assumption that the propagation channel …