Design Consideration of UAV Networks 9.5 New Technology and Infrastructure Trends 9.6 Research Trends 9.7 Future Insights 9.8 Conclusion Bibliography
15 10 Network‐Assisted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communication for Smart Monitoring of Lockdown 10.1 Introduction 10.2 UAVs as Aerial Base Stations 10.3 UAV as Relays for Terrestrial Communication 10.4 Conclusion Bibliography Note
16 11 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Agriculture: an Overview of IoT‐Based Scenarios 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Perspective of Research Projects 11.3 IoT Scenarios in Agriculture 11.4 Wireless Communication Protocols 11.5 Multi‐access Edge Computing and 5G Networks 11.6 Conclusion Bibliography Notes
17 12 Airborne Systems and Underwater Monitoring 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Automated Image Labeling 12.3 Water/Land Visual Differentiation 12.4 Offline Bathymetric Mapping 12.5 Online Bathymetric Mapping 12.6 Conclusion and Future Work Bibliography
18 13 Demystifying Futuristic Satellite Networks: Requirements, Security Threats, and Issues 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Inter‐Satellite and Deep Space Network 13.3 Security Requirements and Challenges in ISDSN 13.4 Conclusion Bibliography Notes
19 14 Conclusion 14.1 Future Hot Topics 14.2 Concluding Remarks
20 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Regulation for LAP deployment of UAVs in different countries.Table 2.2 Measurement campaigns to characterize the path loss and large‐scale...Table 2.3 Measured small‐scale fading of AG propagation in different environm...
2 Chapter 3Table 3.1 The measurement apparatus with their specifications.Table 3.2 Path loss measurement and path loss exponent for nine different bod...Table 3.3 Combined path loss measurement and path loss exponent for four diff...Table 3.4 Path loss measurement and path loss exponent for four different bod...Table 3.5 Time dispersion analysis in the case of LoS for nine body locations...Table 3.6 Time dispersion analysis in the case of NLoS for four body location...Table 3.7 Path loss values in the indoor and outdoor environments for four po...Table 3.8 Delay analysis values in nanoseconds for two body locations conside...Table 3.9 AIC score for all the distributions considered for modeling the fad...
3 Chapter 4Table 4.1 State‐of‐the‐art UAV positioning solutions using RL.Table 4.2 Simulation parameters.
4 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Definitions of mathematical symbols and variables.Table 5.2 Rate at the users for different UAV's trajectories.
5 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Impact on the characteristics of signals at THz and mmWave frequenc...Table 6.2 Simulation parameters [2,39].
6 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Simulation parameters
7 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Critical review on state of the art.
8 Chapter 10Table 10.1 Fitting parameters for receiver threshold
9 Chapter 11Table 11.1 The most relevant EU‐funded R&I