IEEE Communications Magazine· 2016Q1· Review
Wireless communications with unmanned aerial vehicles: opportunities and challenges
- 4,065citations
- Q1SCImago
- 2016year
Short summary
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising solution for cost-effective wireless connectivity in areas lacking infrastructure, enabling faster deployment and more flexible reconfiguration than terrestrial systems.
AI-generated from the title and abstract; the full text is not read.
Key points
- UAVs enable cost-effective wireless connectivity for infrastructure-less areas.
- Advantages include faster deployment, flexible reconfiguration, and better channel quality via line-of-sight links.
- Key challenges arise from UAV mobility and energy constraints.
- The article provides an overview of UAV-aided wireless communication architectures and design considerations.
AI-generated from the title and abstract; the full text is not read.
Abstract
Wireless communication systems that include unmanned aerial vehicles promise to provide cost-effective wireless connectivity for devices without infrastructure coverage. Compared to terrestrial communications or those based on high-altitude platforms, on-demand wireless systems with low-altitude UAVs are in general faster to deploy, more flexibly reconfigured, and likely to have better communication channels due to the presence of short-range line-of-sight links. However, the utilization of highly mobile and energy-constrained UAVs for wireless communications also introduces many new challenges. In this article, we provide an overview of UAV-aided wireless communications, by introducing the basic networking architecture and main channel characteristics, highlighting the key design considerations as well as the new opportunities to be exploited.
The authors' abstract, as published at the source. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2016 · DOI ↗
Continue with a free account
Ask the paper: 3 free questions a day about this paper; save it, get its citation, new summaries every day for your field. Takeaways are Premium.
Continue free on the webSign in with Google or Apple; no card needed. You come back to this paper.
On your phone:
Field: Aerospace Engineering
Aerospace EngineeringEngineering