Aerial Access Networks

Lingyang Song is a Distinguished Professor at Peking University, Beijing, China. His main research interests include wireless communication and networks, signal processing, and machine learning. He was the recipient of the IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2016) and the IEEE Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award (2012). He has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer since 2015. Boya Di is an Assistant Professor at Peking University, China where she obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2019. She received the best doctoral thesis award from China Education Society of Electronics (2019), the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award (2021), and IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2022). She is currently an associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Hongliang Zhang is an Assistant Professor at Peking University. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral associate at Princeton University, New Jersey. Dr. Zhang is the recipient of IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letters (2021) and IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award (2021). Zhu Han is currently a Professor at the University of Houston, Texas. Dr. Han has received an NSF Career Award (2010), Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2011), EURASIP Best Paper Award (2015), IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2016) and was the winner of IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2021), for outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Basics of Aerial Access Networks: 2. Aerial integration: from UAVs, HAPs, to satellites; Part II. UAV Communication Networks: 3. UAV serving as flying infrastructures; 4. UAV serving as flying users; Part III. High-altitude Platform Communication Networks: 5. Deployment for high altitude platform systems with perturbation; 6. Cooperative HAP and LEO satellite schemes for data collection and transmission; 7. HAP-reserved communications in space-air-ground integrated networks; Part IV. Satellite Communication Networks; 8. Ultra-dense LEO satellite networks; 9. Ultra-dense LEO satellite constellation design; Part V. Integration of UAVs, HAPs, and Satellites: 10. Integrating terrestrial-satellite networks into 5G and beyond; 11. integrated terrestrial-aerial access networks enables by network slicing.