Survey on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks for Civil Applications: A Communications Viewpoint

By Samira Hayat, Evsen Yanmaz, Raheeb Muzaffar. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2016

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications

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Optimized flocking of autonomous drones in confined environments (2018, background): “Because signal power decays quickly with space [ideally at 1/r(2) in open space (57)], reception from nearby agents (<20 m) was nearly perfect, whereas large communication outages started to occur at larger distances (>50 m).”
Semantic Communications for Future Internet: Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges (2022, neutral): “3) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: UAVs have attracted lots of attention especially while being served as aerial base stations (BSs) or as relays [182], [183], [184].”
Routing in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: A Comprehensive Survey (2020, methodology): “Taking into account the high mobility of UAVs in a network and the mission dynamics, it can be beneﬁ-cial to consider geographic routing protocols for FANETs [21].”
UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges (2020, neutral): “[34] • Search and Rescue.”
Collaborative Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: Planning, Coordination, Perception, and Active Vision (2020, background): “Multi-UAV systems for civil applications (where SAR applications are a subset) are reviewed in [8] from the point of view of communication.”
A compilation of UAV applications for precision agriculture (2020, positive): “S. Hayat et al. in [17] also focus on UAV civil applications, by examining mainly network issues such as Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, data requirements and in general network parameters related to UAV missions.”
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges (2018, positive): “UAVs can be used in many civil applications due to their ease of deployment, lowmaintenance cost, high-mobility and ability to hover [1].”
Survey on UAV Cellular Communications: Practical Aspects, Standardization Advancements, Regulation, and Security Challenges (2018, background): “[10] surveyed communications demands for various applications of UAV and analysed the suitability of existing wireless technologies, including Bluetooth, ZigBee, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and cellular, to meet these demands.”
Accessing From the Sky: A Tutorial on UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond (2019, background): “Prior work [29] gives a survey on UAV-aided civil applications, while the survey paper [30] discusses other applications of UAVs and some promising technologies for them.”
Downlink Coverage Analysis for a Finite 3-D Wireless Network of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2017, background): “This has stimulated interest in the design of applicationoriented protocols for the effective utilization of aerial networks [6]–[8].”
Classifications and Applications of Physical Layer Security Techniques for Confidentiality: A Comprehensive Survey (2019, background): “21For obtaining more background information about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), we refer the reader to [410] and [411].”
What Will the Future of UAV Cellular Communications Be? A Flight From 5G to 6G (2021, background): “UAV quality-of-service requirements and network-relevant mission parameters are quantified in [15], also elaborating on con-”
A Tutorial on UAVs for Wireless Networks: Applications, Challenges, and Open Problems (2018, background): “The survey in [52] presented the communications and networking requirements of UAVs for civil applications.”
A Comprehensive Survey on UAV Communication Channel Modeling (2019, background): “missions outdoor and indoor [143], the UAV application for environment sensing also requires a comprehensive modeling of the propagation channel.”
UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond: Recent Advances and Future Trends (2019, background): “Furthermore, to support broadband wireless communications in a large geographical area, a swarm of UAVs forming Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) [12], [13] and establishing connection links with the ground nodes, have been studied theoretically and validated through field experiments.”