Wireless Communications and Networking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Walid Saad is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech and an IEEE Fellow. Mehdi Bennis is an Associate Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland. Mohammad Mozaffari is an Experienced Researcher at Ericsson Research Silicon Valley. Xingqin Lin is a Senior Researcher at Ericsson Research Silicon Valley.

• 1. Wireless communications and networking with unmanned aerial vehicles: an introduction; 2. UAV applications and use cases; 3. Aerial channel modeling and waveform design; 4. Performance analysis and tradeoffs; 5. Deployment of UAVs for wireless communications; 6. Wireless-aware path planning for UAV networks; 7. Resource management for UAV networks; 8. Cooperative communications in UAV networks; 9. From LTE to 5G NR-enabled UAV networks; 10. Security of UAV networks.

'This book, written by the most prominent experts in the field, provides a complete in-depth analysis of UAV wireless communications. It should become a reference material for all the students, engineers and researchers who are building our next generation wireless communication networks.' Merouane Debbah, CentraleSupélec