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UAV Networks: Architectures, Opportunities, Challenges, and Future by Prof Misra

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are pilotless flying vehicles with numerous applications, which include search and rescue operations, establishing communication (aerial base stations), monitoring and surveillance, as well as military operations. They are also useful in disaster-hit areas for localizing survivors, quantifying damage, sensing hazardous fumes, and others. Although the scope of UAVs is diverse, it has several challenges. Typically, these challenges span across controlling single UAVs, coordination among a swarm of UAVs, coverage, and placement, and communication with remote sinks. Further, while manual control may be useful for an unknown environment, autonomous UAVs reduce the need for manual intervention, which makes tasks easier to accomplish. Thus, there is a need for a novel network and control architectures. Another important challenge is that these UAVs have a heterogeneous set of sensors that produce a huge amount of data and require smart analytics to make inferences. This lecture presents algorithms and architectures leveraging the key features of cloud/edge/fog computing platforms. Further, it includes concepts that optimize flight time, energy consumption, payload, manoeuvrability, and others. Additionally, this lecture also presents how the UAVs and its properties also deem fit for the upcoming components of THz communication technologies such as mmWave and small cells.