- Title
- The role of unmanned aerial vehicles and mmWave in 5G : recent advances and challenges
- Creator
- Khan, Shah; Naseem, Usman; Siraj, Haris; Razzak, Imran; Imran, Muhammad
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/184670
- Identifier
- vital:16539
- Identifier
-
https://doi.org/10.1002/ett.4241
- Identifier
- ISBN:2161-5748 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Next-generation wireless communication networks, in particular, the densified 5G will bring many developments to the existing telecommunications industry. The key benefits will be the higher throughput and very low latency. In this context, the usage of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is becoming a feasible option for deploying 5G services on demand. At the same time, the immense bandwidth potential of mmWave has strengthened its performance in radio communication. In this article, we provide a consolidated synthesis on the role of UAVs and mmWave in 5G, emphasis on recent developments and challenges. The review focuses on UAV relay architectures, identifies the relevant problems and limitations in the deployment of UAVs using mmWave in both access and backhaul links simultaneously. There is a critical analysis of the optimum placement of the UAVs as a relay with a focus on the mmWave band. The distinctive rich characteristics of the mmWave propagation and scattering are presented. We also synthesis mmWave path loss models. Then, the scope of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques as an efficient solution for combating the dynamic and complex nature of UAV-based cellular communication networks are discussed. In the end, security and privacy issues in UAV-based cellular network are spotlighted. It is believed that the literature discussed, and the findings reached in this article are of significant importance to researchers, application engineers and decision-makers in the designing and deployment of UAV-supported 5G network. © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Inc
- Relation
- Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Vol. 32, no. 7 (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subject
- 4006 Communications engineering; 4606 Distributed computing and systems software
- Reviewed
- Funder
- Information Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.The authors would like to thank the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.
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