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UAVs over mmWave/THz Cellular MEC Networks: A Comparative Study for Energy Efficiency
M. Mahdi Azari, Symeon Chatzinotas
Cellular networks equipped with mobile edge computing (MEC) servers can be beneficial for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with limited onboard computation power and battery life-ti…
THz-Empowered UAVs in 6G: Opportunities, Challenges, and Trade-Offs
M. Mahdi Azari, Sourabh Solanki, Symeon Chatzinotas +1
Envisioned use cases of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) impose new service requirements in terms of data rate, latency, and sensing accuracy, to name a few. If such requirements ar…
Cellular, Wide-Area, and Non-Terrestrial IoT: A Survey on 5G Advances and the Road Towards 6G
Mojtaba Vaezi, Amin Azari, Saeed R. Khosravirad +4
The next wave of wireless technologies is proliferating in connecting things among themselves as well as to humans. In the era of the Internet of things (IoT), billions of sensors,…
Evolution of Non-Terrestrial Networks From 5G to 6G: A Survey
M. Mahdi Azari, Sourabh Solanki, Symeon Chatzinotas +9
Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) traditionally have certain limited applications. However, the recent technological advancements and manufacturing cost reduction opened up myriad ap…
What Will the Future of UAV Cellular Communications Be? A Flight from 5G to 6G
Giovanni Geraci, Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, M. Mahdi Azari +6
What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and sh…
Mobile Cellular-Connected UAVs: Reinforcement Learning for Sky Limits
M. Mahdi Azari, Atefeh Hajijamali Arani, Fernando Rosas
A cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)faces several key challenges concerning connectivity and energy efficiency. Through a learning-based strategy, we propose a genera…
Spectrum Sharing Strategies for UAV-to-UAV Cellular Communications
M. Mahdi Azari, Giovanni Geraci, Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez +1
In this article, we consider a cellular network deployment where UAV-to-UAV (U2U) transmit-receive pairs coexist with the uplink (UL) of cellular ground users (GUEs). Our analysis…
Learning in the Sky: An Efficient 3D Placement of UAVs
Atefeh Hajijamali Arani, M. Mahdi Azari, William Melek +1
Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations can deliver a fast and flexible solution for serving varying traffic demand. In order to adequately benefit of…
UAV-to-UAV Communications in Cellular Networks
M. Mahdi Azari, Giovanni Geraci, Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez +1
We consider a cellular network deployment where UAV-to-UAV (U2U) transmit-receive pairs share the same spectrum with the uplink (UL) of cellular ground users (GUEs). For this setup…
Cellular UAV-to-UAV Communications
M. Mahdi Azari, Giovanni Geraci, Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez +1
Reliable and direct communication between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could facilitate autonomous flight, collision avoidance, and cooperation in UAV swarms. In this paper, we…
Tutorial on UAV: A Blue Sky View on Wireless Communication
Evgenii Vinogradov, Hazem Sallouha, Sibren De Bast +2
The growing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for various applications requires ubiquitous and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these devices a…
Energy-Constrained UAV Trajectory Design for Ground Node Localization
Hazem Sallouha, Mohammad Mahdi Azari, Sofie Pollin
The use of aerial anchors for localizing terrestrial nodes has recently been recognized as a cost-effective, swift and flexible solution for better localization accuracy, providing…
Cellular Connectivity for UAVs: Network Modeling, Performance Analysis and Design Guidelines
Mohammad Mahdi Azari, Fernando Rosas, Sofie Pollin
The growing use of aerial user equipments (UEs) in various applications requires ubiquitous and reliable connectivity for safe control and data exchange between these devices and g…
Aerial Anchors Positioning for Reliable RSS-Based Outdoor Localization in Urban Environments
Hazem Sallouha, Mohammad Mahdi Azari, Alessandro Chiumento +1
In this letter, the localization of terrestrial nodes when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used as base stations is investigated. Particularly, a novel localization scenario ba…
Uplink Performance Analysis of a Drone Cell in a Random Field of Ground Interferers
M. M. Azari, F. Rosas, A. Chiumento +2
Aerial base stations are a promising technology to increase the capabilities of the existing communication networks. However, the existing analytical frameworks do not sufficiently…
Key Technologies and System Trade-Offs for Detection and Localization of Amateur Drones
Mohammad Mahdi Azari, Hazem Sallouha, Alessandro Chiumento +3
The use of amateur drones (ADrs) is expected to significantly increase over the upcoming years. However, regulations do not allow such drones to fly over all areas, in addition to…
Coexistence of Terrestrial and Aerial Users in Cellular Networks
Mohammad Mahdi Azari, Fernando Rosas, Alessandro Chiumento +1
Enabling the integration of aerial mobile users into existing cellular networks would make possible a number of promising applications. However, current cellular networks have not…
Reshaping Cellular Networks for the Sky: Major Factors and Feasibility
Mohammad Mahdi Azari, Fernando Rosas, Sofie Pollin
This paper studies the feasibility of supporting drone operations using existent cellular infrastructure. We propose an analytical framework that includes the effects of base stati…
Coverage Maximization for a Poisson Field of Drone Cells
Mohammad Mahdi Azari, Yuri Murillo, Osama Amin +3
The use of drone base stations to provide wireless connectivity for ground terminals is becoming a promising part of future technologies. The design of such aerial networks is howe…
Ultra Reliable UAV Communication Using Altitude and Cooperation Diversity
Mohammad Mahdi Azari, Fernando Rosas, Kwang-Cheng Chen +1
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that serve as aerial base stations is expected to become predominant in the next decade. However, in order for this technology to unfold…