Description
This book provides the state-of-the-art research on aerial communications coexisting with terrestrial networks from physical, MAC, network, and application layer perspectives. It includes thorough discussion of control issues, access techniques and resource sharing between cellular communication and aerial communications to accommodate larger volumes of traffic and to provide better service to users. Other challenges are explored in this text are: identification of services, radio resource allocation and resource management for aerial links, self-organizing aerial networks, aerial offloading, and performance evaluation of aerial communications. This volume will be a highly useful resource for students, researchers and engineers interested in obtaining comprehensive information on the design, evaluation, and applications of aerial access networks and communications.
Table of Contents
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.
