Autonomous Airborne Wireless Networks (eBook)

Muhammad Ali Imran, is Dean University of Glasgow, UESTC, Professor of Communication Systems and Head of Communications Sensing and Imaging Group at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK. Oluwakayode Onireti, PhD, is a Lecturer at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK. He received his PhD in Electronics Engineering from the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. Shuja Ansari, PhD, is currently a Research Associate at University of Glasgow and actively involved as a Use Case implementation lead for Wave-1 Urban Innovation Projects for Scotland 5G Centre. He received his PhD in Engineering from Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. Qammer H. Abbasi, is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Deputy Head of Communications Sensing and Imaging Group at the James Watt School of Engineering the University of Glasgow, UK.

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Contributors list



Chapter 1 Introduction

Muhammad A Imran, Oluwakayode Onireti, Shuja S Ansari, Qammer H Abbasi



Chapter 2 Channel Model for Airborne Networks

Aziz Altaf Khuwaja and Yunfei Chen



Chapter 3 Ultra-Wide Band Channel Measurements and Modelling for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-to-Wearables (UAV2W) Systems

Amit Kachroo, Surbhi Vishwakarma, Jacob N. Dixon, Hisham Abuella, Adithya Popuri, Qammer H. Abbasi, Charles F. Bunting,

Jamey D. Jacob, Sabit Ekin,



Chapter 4 A cooperative multi-agent approach for optimal drone deployment using reinforcement learning

Rigoberto Acosta-González, Paulo Valente Klaine, Samuel Montejo-Sánchez, Richard Demo, Lei Zhang, Muhammad A. Imran



Chapter 5 SWIPT-PS Enabled Cache-Aided Self-Energized UAV for Cooperative Communication

Tharindu D. Ponnimbaduge Perera



Chapter 6 Performance of mmWave UAV-Assisted 5G Hybrid Heterogeneous Networks

Muhammad Karam Shehzad, Muhammad Waseem Akhtar, Syed Ali Hassan



Chapter 7 UAV-Enabled Cooperative Jamming for Physical Layer Security in Cognitive Radio Network

Phu Xuan Nguyen, Hieu Van Nguyen, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Oh-Soon Shin





Chapter 8 IRS assisted Localization for Airborne Mobile Networks

Olaoluwa Popoola, Shuja Ansari, Rafay Iqbal Ansari, Lina Mohjazi, Syed Ali Hassan,

Nauman Aslam, Qammer Hussain Abbasi, Muhammad Ali Imran



Chapter 9 Performance Analysis of UAV Enabled Disaster Recovery Networks

Rabeea Basir, Naveed Ahmad Chughtai, Saad Qaisar, Mudassar Ali, Muhammad Ali Imran



Chapter 10 Network-assisted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communication for Smart Monitoring of Lock-down

Navuday Sharma, Muhammad Awais, Haris Pervaiz, Hassan Malik, Qiang Ni



Chapter 11 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Agriculture: an overview of IoT-based scenarios

Bacco Manlio, Barsocchi Paolo, Gotta Alberto, Ruggeri Massimiliano



Chapter 12 Airborne Systems and Underwater Monitoring

Elizabeth Basha, Jason To-Tran, Davis Young, Sean Thalken, Christopher Uramoto

Chapter 13 Demystifying Futuristic Satellite Networks: Requirements, Security Threats, and Issues

Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Imran Shafique Ansari, Marwa Qaraqe

Chapter 14 Conclusions and future outlook

Muhammad Imran, Oluwakayode, Shuja Ansari and Qammer Abbasi