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An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology for providing wireless coverage to ground user devices. For all the infrastructure communication networks destroyed in disasters, UAVs battery life is challenging during service…
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network can serve as an aerial relay to periodically receive packets from macro base stations (BSs). Severe packet loss may happen especially when UAVs have bad wireless connections to a BS. In this paper, a…
With rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, application of the UAVs for task offloading has received increasing interest in the academia. However, real-time interaction between one UAV and the mobile edge computing…
Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), a subclass of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs), are expected to play a crucial role in the future of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). A key objective of VANETs is to enable efficient and…
When an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is utilized as an aerial small base station (BS), like a relay deployed far away from macro BSs, existing multicast methods based on acknowledgement (ACK) feedback and retransmissions may…
Clustering is an important concept in vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) where several vehicles join to form a group based on common features. Mobility-based clustering strategies are the most common in VANET clustering; however, machine…
Flying Ad-hoc Networks (FANETs), formed by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), represent an emerging and promising communication paradigm. These networks face unique challenges due to UAVs high mobility, limited energy resources, and dynamic…
Efficient routing algorithms based on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) play an important role in emerging intelligent transportation systems. This highly dynamic topology faces a number of wireless communication service challenges. In…
One of the most critical applications undertaken by coalitions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is reaching predefined targets by following the most time-efficient routes while avoiding collisions.…
In the future wireless networks, terrestrial, aerial, space, and maritime wireless networks are integrated into a unified network to meet the needs of a fully connected global network. Nowadays, vehicular communication has become one of the…
Green Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) is a newly-emerged research area which focuses on reducing harmful impacts of vehicular communication equipments on the natural environment. Recent studies have shown that grouping vehicles into…
This paper studies a heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative search approach suitable for complex environments. In the application, a fixed-wing UAV drops rotor UAVs to deploy the cluster rapidly. Meanwhile, the fixed-wing…
The demand for future wireless communication systems is being satisfied for various circumstances through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which act as flying base stations (BSs). In this letter, we propose an ellipse clustering algorithm…
Relative localization of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments is essential for emergency rescue and battlefield reconnaissance. Existing methods suffer from significant…
The sixth generation (6G) wireless networks are envisioned to deliver ultra-low latency, massive connectivity, and high data rates, enabling advanced applications such as autonomous {unmaned aerial vehicles (UAV)} swarms and aerial edge…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wireless service for…
Clustering is a technique used in network routing to enhance the performance and conserve the network resources. This paper presents a cluster-based routing protocol for VANET utilizing a new addressing scheme in which each node gets an…
In this paper, a novel framework for power-efficient, cluster-based machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is proposed. In the studied model, a number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used as aerial base stations to collect data from…
In this letter, a C-RAN-type cluster-head-driven uplink model for multiple-antenna Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) relaying schemes, which enables joint Maximum Likelihood (ML) symbol detection in the UAV cluster-head and the selection of…
Cooperative and cognitive non-orthogonal multiple access (CCR-NOMA) has been recognized as a promising technique to overcome issues of spectrum scarcity and support massive connectivity envisioned in next-generation wireless networks. In…