Most cited papers in UAV Applications and Optimization
What are the most cited papers in UAV Applications and Optimization?
The most cited paper in UAV Applications and Optimization is "Wireless communications with unmanned aerial vehicles: opportunities and challenges" (Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Teng Joon Lim, 2016), with 4,214 citations. Next come "Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How it Works, State of Research, and Road Ahead" (3,385) and "Optimal LAP Altitude for Maximum Coverage" (3,274).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 519 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wireless communications with unmanned aerial vehicles: opportunities and challenges Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Teng Joon Lim · IEEE Communications Magazine | May 2016 | 4,214 |
| 2 | Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How it Works, State of Research, and Road Ahead Marco Di Renzo, Alessio Zappone, Mérouane Debbah et al. · Aaltodoc (Aalto University) | 2020 | 3,385 |
| 3 | Optimal LAP Altitude for Maximum Coverage Akram Al‐Hourani, Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, Simon Lardner · IEEE Wireless Communications Letters | 24 Jul 2014 | 3,274 |
| 4 | SiamRPN++: Evolution of Siamese Visual Tracking With Very Deep Networks Bo Li, Wei Wu, Qiang Wang et al. | Jun 2019 | 2,563 |
| 5 | An Overview of Recent Progress in the Study of Distributed Multi-Agent Coordination Yongcan Cao, Wenwu Yu, Wei Ren et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics | 15 Sep 2012 | 2,442 |
| 6 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges Hazim Shakhatreh, Ahmad Sawalmeh, Ala Al‐Fuqaha et al. · IEEE Access | 2019 | 2,388 |
| 7 | Survey of Important Issues in UAV Communication Networks Lav Gupta, Raj Kumar Jain, Gabor Vaszkun · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials | 3 Nov 2015 | 2,383 |
| 8 | ByteTrack: Multi-object Tracking by Associating Every Detection Box Yifu Zhang, Peize Sun, Yi Jiang et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 2022 | 2,358 |
| 9 | Energy Minimization for Wireless Communication With Rotary-Wing UAV Yong Zeng, Jie Xu, Rui Zhang · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 8 Mar 2019 | 2,204 |
| 10 | Energy-Efficient UAV Communication With Trajectory Optimization Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 28 Mar 2017 | 2,200 |
| 11 | Joint Trajectory and Communication Design for Multi-UAV Enabled Wireless Networks Qingqing Wu, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 5 Jan 2018 | 2,063 |
| 12 | Towards 6G wireless communication networks: vision, enabling technologies, and new paradigm shifts Xiaohu You et al. · Science China Information Sciences | 24 Nov 2020 | 2,058 |
| 13 | Energy-efficient computing for wildlife tracking Philo Juang, Hidekazu Oki, Yong Wang et al. | Oct 2002 | 1,806 |
| 14 | Accessing From the Sky: A Tutorial on UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond Yongs Zeng, Qingqing Wu, Rui Zhang · Proceedings of the IEEE | Dec 2019 | 1,627 |
| 15 | Flying Ad-Hoc Networks (FANETs): A survey İlker Bekmezci, Özgür Koray Şahingöz, Şamil Temel · Ad Hoc Networks | 3 Jan 2013 | 1,524 |
| 16 | Classifications, applications, and design challenges of drones: A review Mostafa Hassanalian, Abdessattar Abdelkefi · Progress in Aerospace Sciences | May 2017 | 1,455 |
| 17 | Survey on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks for Civil Applications: A Communications Viewpoint Samira Hayat, Evşen Yanmaz, Raheeb Muzaffar · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials | 2016 | 1,418 |
| 18 | Throughput Maximization for UAV-Enabled Mobile Relaying Systems Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Teng Joon Lim · IEEE Transactions on Communications | 20 Sep 2016 | 1,378 |
| 19 | Vehicle Routing Problems for Drone Delivery Kevin Dorling, Jordan Heinrichs, Geoffrey G. Messier et al. · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems | 14 Jul 2016 | 1,343 |
| 20 | Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network: A Survey Jiajia Liu, Yongpeng Shi, Zubair Md. Fadlullah et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials | 2018 | 1,279 |
| 21 | Detection and Tracking Meet Drones Challenge Pengfei Zhu, Longyin Wen, Dawei Du et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 15 Oct 2021 | 1,265 |
| 22 | UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond: Recent Advances and Future Trends Bin Li, Zesong Fei, Yan Zhang · IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 17 Dec 2018 | 1,264 |
| 23 | Modeling air-to-ground path loss for low altitude platforms in urban environments Akram Al‐Hourani, Sithamparanathan Kandeepan, Abbas Jamalipour | Dec 2014 | 1,184 |
| 24 | Efficient Deployment of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Optimal Wireless Coverage Mohammad Mozaffari, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis et al. · IEEE Communications Letters | 8 Jun 2016 | 1,161 |
| 25 | Survey on UAV Cellular Communications: Practical Aspects, Standardization Advancements, Regulation, and Security Challenges Azade Fotouhi, Haoran Qiang, Ming Ding et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials | 2019 | 1,159 |
| 26 | Mobile Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Energy-Efficient Internet of Things Communications Mohammad Mozaffari, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis et al. · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 15 Sep 2017 | 1,128 |
| 27 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle With Underlaid Device-to-Device Communications: Performance and Tradeoffs Mohammad Mozaffari, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis et al. · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications | 18 Feb 2016 | 1,128 |
| 28 | Time-Varying Formation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Theories and Applications Xiwang Dong, Bocheng Yu, Zongying Shi et al. · IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology | 15 Apr 2014 | 1,053 |
| 29 | Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): practical aspects, applications, open challenges, security issues, and future trends Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan, Nawaf Qasem Hamood Othman, Yanlong Li et al. · Intelligent Service Robotics | 16 Jan 2023 | 1,048 |
| 30 | Help from the Sky: Leveraging UAVs for Disaster Management Milan Erdelj, Enrico Natalizio, Kaushik Roy Chowdhury et al. · IEEE Pervasive Computing | 2017 | 1,022 |
| 31 | Placement Optimization of UAV-Mounted Mobile Base Stations Jiangbin Lyu, Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang et al. · IEEE Communications Letters | 29 Nov 2016 | 1,000 |
| 32 | Optimization approaches for civil applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or aerial drones: A survey Alena Otto, Niels A.H. Agatz, James F. Campbell et al. · Networks | 25 Mar 2018 | 986 |
| 33 | Path planning techniques for unmanned aerial vehicles: A review, solutions, and challenges Shubhani Aggarwal, Neeraj Kumar · Computer Communications | 22 Oct 2019 | 972 |
| 34 | Recent Research in Cooperative Control of Multivehicle Systems Richard M. Murray · Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control | 3 May 2007 | 966 |
| 35 | A compilation of UAV applications for precision agriculture Panagiotis I. Radoglou Grammatikis, Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis, Θωμάς Λάγκας et al. · Computer Networks | 12 Feb 2020 | 964 |
| 36 | Low-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-Based Internet of Things Services: Comprehensive Survey and Future Perspectives Naser Hossein Motlagh, Tarik Taleb, Osama Arouk · IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 20 Sep 2016 | 961 |
| 37 | UAV-Enabled Intelligent Transportation Systems for the Smart City: Applications and Challenges Hamid Menouar, İsmail Güvenç, Kemal Akkaya et al. · IEEE Communications Magazine | Mar 2017 | 956 |
| 38 | Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Remote Sensing and Scientific Research: Classification and Considerations of Use Adam C. Watts, Vincent G. Ambrosia, Everett Hinkley · Remote Sensing | 8 Jun 2012 | 937 |
| 39 | Efficient 3-D placement of an aerial base station in next generation cellular networks R. Irem Bor-Yaliniz, Amr El‐Keyi, Halim Yanıkömeroğlu | May 2016 | 935 |
| 40 | Consensus strategies for cooperative control of vehicle formations Wenze Ren · IET Control Theory and Applications | 2 Mar 2007 | 932 |
| 41 | UAV-YOLOv8: A Small-Object-Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv8 for UAV Aerial Photography Scenarios Gang Wang, Yanfei Chen, Pei Wen An et al. · Sensors | 15 Aug 2023 | 928 |
| 42 | A survey of channel modeling for UAV communications \n Aziz Altaf Khuwaja, Yunfei Chen, Nan Zhao et al. · Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) | Oct 2018 | 927 |
| 43 | Towards the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Comprehensive Review Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan, Muhammad Asghar Khan, Fazal Noor et al. · Drones | 15 Jun 2022 | 912 |
| 44 | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: A Survey of Current Trends in Autonomous Driving Guillaume Bresson, Zayed Alsayed, Li Yu et al. · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles | Sep 2017 | 903 |
| 45 | Dwarf Mongoose Optimization Algorithm Jeffrey Ovre Agushaka, Absalom El-Shamir Ezugwu, Laith Abualigah · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 28 Jan 2022 | 896 |
| 46 | Space/Aerial-Assisted Computing Offloading for IoT Applications: A Learning-Based Approach Xiongwen Cheng, Feng Lyu, Wei Quan et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 21 Mar 2019 | 894 |
| 47 | Distributed Consensus in Multi-vehicle Cooperative Control: Theory and Applications Wei Ren, Randal W. Beard | 26 Oct 2007 | 894 |
| 48 | Computation Rate Maximization in UAV-Enabled Wireless-Powered Mobile-Edge Computing Systems Fuhui Zhou, Yongpeng Wu, Rose Qingyang Hu et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications | 13 Aug 2018 | 886 |
| 49 | Deep Learning Based Communication Over the Air Sebastian Dorner, Sebastian Cammerer, Jakob Hoydis et al. · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing | 15 Dec 2017 | 884 |
| 50 | Review on Application of Drone Systems in Precision Agriculture Umamaheswara Rao Mogili, B. B. V. L. Deepak · Procedia Computer Science | 2018 | 861 |
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