Autonomous Airborne Wireless Networks

Muhammad Ali Imran, is Dean University of Glasgow, UESTC, Professor of Communication Systems and Head of Communications Sensing and Imaging Group at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK.Oluwakayode Onireti, PhD, is a Lecturer at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK. He received his PhD in Electronics Engineering from the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. Shuja Ansari, PhD, is currently a Research Associate at University of Glasgow and actively involved as a Use Case implementation lead for Wave-1 Urban Innovation Projects for Scotland 5G Centre. He received his PhD in Engineering from Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. Qammer H. Abbasi, is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Deputy Head of Communications Sensing and Imaging Group at the James Watt School of Engineering the University of Glasgow, UK.

• Editor biographyContributors list  Chapter 1            Introduction Muhammad A Imran, Oluwakayode Onireti, Shuja S Ansari, Qammer H Abbasi  Chapter 2            Channel Model for Airborne NetworksAziz Altaf Khuwaja and Yunfei Chen  Chapter 3            Ultra-Wide Band Channel Measurements and Modelling for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-to-Wearables (UAV2W) SystemsAmit Kachroo, Surbhi Vishwakarma, Jacob N. Dixon, Hisham Abuella, Adithya Popuri, Qammer H. Abbasi, Charles F. Bunting,Jamey D. Jacob, Sabit  Ekin,  Chapter 4            A cooperative multi-agent approach for optimal drone deployment using reinforcement learning Rigoberto Acosta-González, Paulo Valente Klaine, Samuel Montejo-Sánchez, Richard Demo, Lei Zhang, Muhammad A. Imran  Chapter 5            SWIPT-PS Enabled Cache-Aided Self-Energized UAV for Cooperative Communication Tharindu D. Ponnimbaduge Perera  Chapter 6            Performance of mmWave UAV-Assisted 5G Hybrid Heterogeneous Networks Muhammad Karam Shehzad, Muhammad Waseem Akhtar, Syed Ali Hassan  Chapter 7            UAV-Enabled Cooperative Jamming for Physical Layer Security in Cognitive Radio Network Phu Xuan Nguyen, Hieu Van Nguyen, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Oh-Soon Shin    Chapter 8            IRS assisted Localization for Airborne Mobile NetworksOlaoluwa Popoola, Shuja Ansari, Rafay Iqbal Ansari, Lina Mohjazi, Syed Ali Hassan,Nauman Aslam, Qammer Hussain Abbasi, Muhammad Ali Imran  Chapter 9            Performance Analysis of UAV Enabled Disaster Recovery NetworksRabeea Basir, Naveed Ahmad Chughtai, Saad Qaisar, Mudassar Ali, Muhammad Ali Imran  Chapter 10          Network-assisted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communication for Smart Monitoring of Lock-downNavuday Sharma, Muhammad Awais, Haris Pervaiz, Hassan Malik, Qiang Ni  Chapter 11          Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Agriculture: an overview of IoT-based scenarios Bacco Manlio, Barsocchi  Paolo, Gotta  Alberto, Ruggeri Massimiliano  Chapter 12          Airborne Systems and Underwater Monitoring Elizabeth Basha, Jason To-Tran, Davis Young, Sean Thalken, Christopher UramotoChapter 13          Demystifying Futuristic Satellite Networks: Requirements, Security Threats, and Issues Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Imran Shafique Ansari, Marwa QaraqeChapter 14          Conclusions and future outlook Muhammad Imran, Oluwakayode, Shuja Ansari and  Qammer Abbasi