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Merits of Serving UAVs via Terrestrial Networks: A Vertical Antenna Radiation Study
Nesrine Cherif, Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in a plethora of applications such as shipping, surveillance, and search-and-rescue. For UAVs to operate safely, reliable cell…
RL-Based Cargo-UAV Trajectory Planning and Cell Association for Minimum Handoffs, Disconnectivity, and Energy Consumption
Nesrine Cherif, Wael Jaafar, Halim Yanikomeroglu +1
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology for last-mile cargo delivery. However, the limited on-board battery capacity, cellular unreliability, and frequent handoffs…
iTUAVs: Intermittently Tethered UAVs for Future Wireless Networks
Nesrine Cherif, Wael Jaafar, Evgenii Vinogradov +3
We propose the intermittently tethered unmanned aerial vehicle (iTUAV) as a tradeoff between the power availability of a tethered UAV (TUAV) and the flexibility of an untethered UA…
Disconnectivity-Aware Energy-Efficient Cargo-UAV Trajectory Planning with Minimum Handoffs
Nesrine Cherif, Wael Jaafar, Halim Yanikomeroglu +1
On-board battery consumption, cellular disconnectivity, and frequent handoff are key challenges for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based delivery missions, a.k.a., cargo-UAV. Indeed…
3D Aerial Highway: The Key Enabler of the Retail Industry Transformation
Nesrine Cherif, Wael Jaafar, Halim Yanikomeroglu +1
The retail industry is already facing an inevitable transformation worldwide, and with the current pandemic situation, it is even accelerating. Indeed, consumer habits are shifting…
On the Optimal 3D Placement of a UAV Base Station for Maximal Coverage of UAV Users
Nesrine Cherif, Wael Jaafar, Halim Yanikomeroglu +1
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be users that support new applications, or be communication access points that serve terrestrial and/or aerial users. In this paper, we focus on…
Downlink Coverage and Rate Analysis of an Aerial User in Vertical Heterogeneous Networks (VHetNets)
Nesrine Cherif, Mohamed Alzenad, Halim Yanikomeroglu +1
In this paper, we analyze the downlink coverage probability and rate of an aerial user in vertical HetNets (VHetNets) comprising aerial base stations (aerial-BSs) and terrestrial-B…
Mixed Málaga- and Generalized- Dual-Hop FSO/RF Systems with Interference
Imène Trigui, Nesrine Cherif, Sofiène Affes +2
This paper investigates the impact of radio frequency (RF) cochannel interference (CCI) on the performance of dual-hop free-space optics (FSO)/RF relay networks. The considered FSO…
Relay-Assisted Mixed FSO/RF Systems over Málaga- and - Shadowed Fading Channels
Imène Trigui, Nesrine Cherif, Sofiène Affes
This letter presents a unified analytical framework for relay-assisted mixed FSO/RF transmission. In addition to accounting for different FSO detection techniques, the mathematical…