Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Communication and Networking

Dear Colleagues,

With the development of embedded systems, low-power long-range radio devices, inexpensive airframes and the miniaturization of micro-electro-mechanical systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have also become affordable for civilian, commercial, as well as military applications. Explicitly, UAVs are being utilized in aerial crop surveys, search and rescue, border patrol missions, search and rescue missions, delivery of goods, natural disaster monitoring, aerial surveillance and reconnaissance. UAV communication and networking play an important role in enabling UAVs aided various applications, which is capable of providing wireless connectivity for devices without relying on infrastructure deployment. However, due to the highly mobility and energy-constrained, UAV communication and networking also introduces many new challenges. The emerging mmWave communications, massive machine-type communications, wireless power transfer and wireless energy harvesting as well as artificial intelligent algorithms shape new paradigm for UAV communication and networking. 

In this Special Issue, we are particularly interested in both key theoretical and practical design for UAV communication and networking as well as UAV assisted applications.

Dr. Jiankang Zhang
Prof. Dr. Shuai Wang
Prof. Dr. Jinming Wen
Guest Editors

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