Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wireless Communication and Networks

lt;p>Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody (S'09, M'14, SM' 18) received the Ph. D. degree in Electronics, Electrical, and Communications Engineering, from the University College Dublin, Ireland in 2013. He received his MSc degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey in 2010 (under the University full graduate scholarship). From 2014 - 2016, he was a Postdoc Research Fellow at the Institute of Computer science, University of Tartu, Estonia and Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway. From 2016, he is a Professor at the School of Computer Science     & Robotics, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), Russia. Prof. Jayakody also serves as the Head of Research and Educational center on Automation and Information Technologies and Founder of Tomsk infocomm Lab at TPU, Russia. In addition, since 2019, he also serves as the Dean/ School of Postgraduate & Research, Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC), Padukka Sri Lanka and Founding director of Centre of Telecommunication Research, SLTC, Sri Lanka. He is supervising/supervised 11 PhD students and many master and undergraduate students. He spent a short research visit at Centre for Telecommunications Research, University of Sydney, Australia in 2015 and Texas A&M University in 2018. Prof. Jayakody has received the best paper award from the IEEE International Conference on Communication, Management and Information Technology (ICCMIT) in 2017 and International Conference on Emerging Technologies of Information and Communications, Bhutan, March 2019. In July 2019, Prof. Jayakody received the Education Leadership Award from the World Academic Congress in 2019. In 2017 and 2018, he received the outstanding faculty award by National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia. He also received Distinguished Researcher in Wireless Communications from International Journal for Research under Literal Access, India 2019. Prof.   Jayakody has   published   over 150     international   peer reviewed journal and conference papers and books. His research interests    include PHY and NET layer   prospective   of 5G communications technologies such as NOMA for 5G etc,   Cooperative wireless   communications,   device to   device communications,  LDPC  codes,   Unmanned    Ariel Vehicle  etc. In his career, so far, he has attracted nearly 6M $ research funding.  Prof.  Jayakody is a Senior Member of IEEE and he has organized or co-organized more than 20 workshops and special sessions of various IEEE conferences. He also served as chair, session chair or technical program committee member for various international conferences, such as IEEE PIMRC  2013-2019, IEEE WCNC 2014-2018, IEEE VTC 2015-2018 etc.  He currently serves as an Area Editor the Elsevier Physical Communications Journal, MDPI Information journal and Wiley Internet of Technology Letters. Also, he serves as a reviewer for various IEEE Transactions and other journals.

Dr. P. Muthuchidambaranathan received his B.Engg. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, in 1992, the M.Engg. Degree in Microwave and Optical Engineering, from A.C. College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi, India, in 1994. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in optical communication from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, India in 2009. He is currently working as a Professor and Head of the department in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, India. His research interests include recent technologies in wireless c

Introduction.- Positioning of UAVs.- Coagulation Attacks on UAVs.- Self-Energized UAV assisted Co-operative Relay.- Low Latency Enabled UAVs.- Full Duplex UAV Assisted Wireless Networks.- Cellular Integration of UAVs.- Trajectory Optimization of UAVs.- UAV Assisted Wireless Power Sensor Network.- UAV Assisted NOMA for 5G.- Conclusion.