Cellular, wide-area, and non-terrestrial IoT: A survey on 5G advances and the road toward 6G

M Vaezi, A Azari, SR Khosravirad… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next wave of wireless technologies is proliferating in connecting things among
themselves as well as to humans. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of …

Evolution of non-terrestrial networks from 5G to 6G: A survey

MM Azari, S Solanki, S Chatzinotas… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) traditionally have certain limited applications. However, the
recent technological advancements and manufacturing cost reduction opened up myriad …

UAV swarm intelligence: Recent advances and future trends

Y Zhou, B Rao, W Wang - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dynamic uncertain environment and complex tasks determine that the unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) system is bound to develop towards clustering, autonomy, and intelligence. In …

Resource allocation and service provisioning in multi-agent cloud robotics: A comprehensive survey

M Afrin, J **, A Rahman, A Rahman… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic applications nowadays are widely adopted to enhance operational automation and
performance of real-world Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) including Industry 4.0 …

A survey on mobility of edge computing networks in IoT: State-of-the-art, architectures, and challenges

FS Abkenar, P Ramezani, S Iranmanesh… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge computing leverages computing resources closer to the end-users at the edge of the
network, rather than distant cloud servers in the centralized IoT architecture. Edge …

Energy-efficient UAV-enabled data collection via wireless charging: A reinforcement learning approach

S Fu, Y Tang, Y Wu, N Zhang, H Gu… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study the application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for data collection
with wireless charging, which is crucial for providing seamless coverage and improving …

Collaborative multi-resource allocation in terrestrial-satellite network towards 6G

S Fu, J Gao, L Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terrestrial-satellite networks (TSNs) are envisioned to play a significant role in the sixth-
generation (6G) wireless networks. In such networks, hot air balloons are useful as they can …

Drone swarm strategy for the detection and tracking of occluded targets in complex environments

RJ Amala Arokia Nathan, I Kurmi… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Drone swarms can achieve tasks via collaboration that are impossible for single drones
alone. Synthetic aperture (SA) sensing is a signal processing technique that takes …

Fair energy-efficient resource optimization for multi-UAV enabled Internet of Things

X Liu, Z Liu, B Lai, B Peng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled Internet of Things (IoT) can keep network
connectivity when the ground infrastructures are paralyzed. However, its transmission …

Joint user association, power optimization and trajectory control in an integrated satellite-aerial-terrestrial network

F Pervez, L Zhao, C Yang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet-of-Things (IoT) is being widely embraced with the number of connected devices
growing rapidly. Moreover, IoT applications are emerging in diverse verticals such as …