Wireless Communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 2337
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mobile and personal communications; channel coding; satellite communications; spread spectrum communications
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Interests: wireless communications; wireless systems
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Interests: signal processing for communications; communication signal transmission; reception and detection algorithms; channel estimation and modeling; MIMO communications; performance analysis of communication systems; optimization techniques in wireless communications; wireless, ad hoc and sensor networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The importance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing every day, as they can perform a variety of services that are faster and more sophisticated, safer, or simply more economical than other systems or humans can handle.
As wireless controlled systems, UAVs also need many other technologies for their success. For example, their energy systems not only need to be efficient, to provide greater autonomy, but also smart so that they can collect energy in many different forms. Different wireless technologies are also needed to guarantee robustness and the diversity of frequency bands and systems, for example, using terrestrial and satellite security with a very high degree of service reliability to ensure that these vehicles can successfully accomplish their missions without being interfered, detected or captured.
With this in mind, there are many possible contributions that are welcome for this Special Issue, including, but not limited to, the following:
- path planning and robust navigation;
- massive MIMO systems;
- autonomy and smart decision planning;
- energy-efficient UAVs;
- reliability, see/sense-detect-and-avoid systems;
- smart sensors for UAVs;
- security, risk assessment, advanced guidance and control algorithms using AI;
- fail-safe systems;
- manned/unmanned aviation;
- reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted UAV communications;
- UAV-to-UAV communications;
- higher frequency (mmWave/THz) UAV communications;
- cell-free architectures;
- intelligent and resilient UAV communications;
- channel modelling and mobility management;
- interoperability and new concept vehicles.
Prof. Dr. Francisco Cercas
Dr. Rui Dinis
Dr. Nuno Manuel Branco Souto
Guest Editors
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