Traffic Learning and Proactive UAV Trajectory Planning for Data Uplink in Markovian IoT Models
The age of information (AoI) is used to measure the freshness of the data. In IoT networks, the traditional resource management schemes […]
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Air Pollution Monitoring: A survey
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with air quality sensors offer a powerful solution for increasing the spatial and temporal resolution of air […]
Investigating Communications Energy Efficiency Tradeoff Between UAV Users and Small-cell Users
In this paper, a novel method is proposed to study the tradeoff between energy efficiency (EE) of small-cell users and unmanned aerial […]
Cooperative Lossy Communications in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks
This paper analyzes the robustness and timeliness for cooperative lossy communications in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. The analytical framework consists of […]
Mode Selection and Cooperative Jamming for Covert Communication in D2D Underlaid UAV Networks
The integration of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks and device-to-device (D2D) communications is expected to provide ubiquitous connectivity and high-speed rates for […]
Opportunities for autonomous UAV in harsh environments
This paper describes the challenges raised from the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) on the exploration of inhospitable places that present […]