Advanced Technologies in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Based Communications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 6580
Special Issue Editors
Interests: UAV wireless networks; next-generation communication systems; artificial intelligence; drone; autonomous vehicle technology; smart mobility
Interests: queueing analysis; routing and spectrum allocation; elastic optical network; Internet of Things; LoRa/LoRaWAN; edge computing
Interests: autonomous driving; quantum computing; blockchain for security and decentralization; deep reinforcement learning
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Interests: UAV networks, IoT, sensor networks, network protocols, wireless communication netwok, 5G and beyond, edge and fog computing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the development of sophisticated technologies, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become more advanced in recent years, achieving a light weight, high flexibility and longer battery life. Such advances have made UAVs able to be utilized in a wide range of applications, such as military, public safety and civil applications. Moreover, much attention has been paid to utilizing UAVs in 5G networks and beyond to enhance their capacity due to their swift deployment, low maintenance costs and high mobility. In addition, since deploying UAVs in wireless communication networks does not require a cell reorganization, UAVs can provide a viable solution for existing networks. However, UAV wireless networks still leave many issues to be resolved for stable and reliable service. The rapid changes in the network topology, including the number of nodes and links in operation and the relative positions of nodes, require special attention. The routing protocol cannot be implemented in a simple proactive or reactive manner because the UAV wireless network needs to be reorganized repeatedly when a UAV is out of service. Furthermore, the instantaneous management of users’ links when transferring from an inactive UAV to an active UAV is challenging. Most importantly, UAV wireless networks require energy efficiency to prolong the lifetime of networks.
This Special Issue aims to gather the latest research on advanced technologies for UAV-based communications. Reviews and survey papers on this topic are welcome. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Applications of UAV-based communications;
- Artificial intelligence (AI) in UAV-based communications;
- Machine learning (ML)-based optimization;
- UAV deployment or trajectory;
- Practical channel modeling;
- Resource allocation in UAV-based communications;
- Energy efficiency in UAV-based communications;
- Security issues in UAV-based communications;
- Interference mitigation in UAV-based communications;
- Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in UAV-based communications;
- Multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) in UAV-based communications;
- 3D beamforming in UAV-based communications;
- Routing and scheduling in UAV-based communications;
- Millimeter wave communications;
- Multi-UAV communications;
- Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting;
- UAV management and control.
Dr. Sang Ik Han
Dr. Joobum Kim
Prof. Dr. Shiho Kim
Dr. Nurul I. Sarkar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- applications of UAV-based communications
- AI in UAV-based communications
- ML-based optimization
- UAV deployment
- resource allocation in UAV-based communications
- energy efficiency in UAV-based communications
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