Advances in UAV Networks Using Innovative Sensors and Data Processing
A Special Issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292) belonging to the section "Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2026 | Viewed by 351
Editors
Interests: air traffic management; air traffic optimization; autonomous flight systems; flight sensors; detect and avoid; unmanned aerial vehicles (uav); urban air mobility (uam); remotely piloted aircraft systems (rpas); flight electrification
Interests: flight mechanics; aeronautic laws; human factor in aviation; air traffic management; sense and avoid; remotely piloted aircraft; urban air mobility
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: air traffic management; air traffic optimization; autonomous flight systems; detect and avoid; remotely piloted aircraft systems (rpas); urban air mobility (uam); aviation operations sustainability
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: embedded systems; real time systems; sensor networks; system Integration; data acquisition and distribution systems; sensor characterization; flight sensors; flight electrification; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); unmanned space vehicles (USV)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks known as drone networks are rapidly transforming modern communication, sensing, and autonomous systems. They cover several applications spanning disaster response, smart cities, environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, and beyond. UAV networks are emerging as a key enabler of next-generation wireless ecosystems.
This Special Issue aims to bring together state-of-the-art research addressing the design, optimization, and deployment of UAV-enabled networks. Topics of interest include UAV-assisted communications, networked swarm intelligence, air-to-ground channel modeling, trajectory optimization, energy efficiency, indoor precision positioning, and AI applications.
Contributions exploring integration with the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing, and satellite systems are also encouraged. Despite significant progress, UAV networks face critical challenges such as limited onboard energy (batteries capacity), highly dynamic network structure, dynamic spectrum scarcity conditions, security vulnerabilities (cyber security), and regulatory constraints.
This Issue aims to find innovative solutions, theoretical advancements, and real-world implementations that push the boundaries of reliability, scalability, and autonomy in UAV networking. We invite original research articles, reviews, and case studies that provide novel insights and practical contributions to the evolving dynamic environments of UAV networks.
Dr. Aniello Menichino
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Del Core
Dr. Vittorio Di Vito
Dr. Michele Inverno
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
- detect and avoid (DAA)
- UAM
- indoor precision positioning
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