UAVs in 5G and beyond Networks
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X). This special issue belongs to the section "Drone Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 13632
Special Issue Editors
Interests: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); 5G networks; network functions virtualization (NFV); network security
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Interests: UAV; drones; 5G; NFV; resource management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of the 5th and beyond (6G) generation of mobile networks is having an impact on our society. Its aims are to create extremely flexible network infrastructure capable of integrating geographically distributed computer, storage, and network resources, as well as accommodating highly heterogeneous service demands from different vertical sectors. On the other hand, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are currently gaining traction as enablers of vertical applications, e.g., in precision agriculture, city management, and public safety. In these applications, UAVs are commonly used to generate, process, and transport relevant information (e.g., video, telemetry, and other sensed data). However, recent advancements on the miniaturization of electronic devices have enabled the creation of onboard lightweight hardware platforms for UAVs, offering computer, storage, and network resources. This opens the opportunity to transform UAVs into programmable mobile nodes of a 5G and beyond network. Moreover, these 5G mobile nodes may operate in isolation or be interconnected to build aerial networks (i.e., UAV networks) over delimited geographic areas, supporting the deployment and performant operation of 5G vertical services beyond the access/edge network segments of telecommunication operators.
Within this context, we invite manuscripts for this Special Issue on UAVs in 5G and beyond Networks. Papers are solicited in areas directly related to these topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Integration of UAVs into 5G and beyond networks
- Novel telecommunication services and vertical applications of UAV networks
- Cloud, edge, and fog computing solutions for UAVs and UAV networks
- NFV, SDN, and network slicing on UAV networks
- Network security in UAV networks
- Reliability, robustness, and resiliency aspects of UAV service provisioning.
- Novel communication management schemes for multi-interface/multi-technology UAVs
- 5G location services for UAVs
- New models for data distribution in aerial networks, e.g., data-centric approaches
- Flying ad hoc network (FANET) protocols and technologies
- Deployment, trial and testing of UAV services on 5G experimental facilities or on specific simulation/emulation environments
Dr. Iván Vidal
Dr. Francisco Valera
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UAVs
- 5G and beyond networks
- NFV
- SDN
- network slicing
- FANET
- network security
- 5G testbeds
- data-centric models
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