Drone Communication, Networking, and Trajectory Control in Urban Environments
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X). This special issue belongs to the section "Drone Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 290
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Interests: internet of drones; design and implementation of unmanned aerial vehicles for aerial manipulation; sensing; recognition; and path planning for autonomous drone; machine learning and data analytics; SLAM algorithms and robotics control system
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Interests: internet of things (IoT); mobile and ubiquitous computing; embedded and edge AI; drone systems, and AI-based IoT data analytics
Interests: smart city and urban computing; artificial intelligence of things (AIoT); wireless sensing and networking; and wireless security; low-power wide-area networks; robotics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the integration of drone technology into urban environments has attracted significant attention due to its potential to revolutionize sectors such as logistics, surveillance, emergency response, and infrastructure inspection. The ability of drones to navigate complex urban landscapes and perform tasks autonomously depends on advancements in communication systems, networking, and trajectory control. This special issue focuses on three key parameters: communication systems, networking, and trajectory control.
Communication systems are essential for ensuring reliable data transmission between drones, between drones and ground stations, and within drone networks. Networking involves the creation of ad-hoc networks for drone coordination and real-time information sharing. Lastly, trajectory control pertains to the navigation systems for single and multiple drones in various scenarios.
This Special Issue aims to gather original research articles and review papers that provide insights into the latest advancements and challenges in drone communication, networking, and trajectory control in urban environments.
We welcome manuscripts that address the following themes:
- Drone communication and networking
- Multi-drone coordination
- Real-time data transmission
- Urban air traffic management
- Trajectory planning
- Sustainable urban transport
- On-board AI processing
- Millimeter wave radar enabled drone navigation
- Drone remote sensing using millimeter wave radar
- LoRa enabled drone monitoring and networking
LoRa-assisted drone communication and networking
- LoRa for long range drone applications
- Novel drone applications
- Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond
- Drone security
- Integrated sensing and communication drone networks
- Remote object detection from drone
- Urban Computing
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Endrowednes Kuantama
Dr. Yu Zhang
Dr. Ningning Hou
Dr. Yimeng Feng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drone communication and networking
- multi-drone coordination
- real-time data transmission
- urban air traffic management
- drone navigation
- trajectory planning
- sustainable urban transport
- on-board AI processing
- millimeter wave radar enabled drone navigation
- drone remote sensing using millimeter wave radar
- LoRa-assisted drone communication and networking
- LoRa for long range drone applications
- novel drone applications
- drone assisted wireless communications for 5G and beyond
- drone security
- integrated sensing and communication drone networks
- remote object detection from drone
- urban computing
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