Resource optimization in UAV‐assisted wireless networks—A comprehensive survey
Mehak Basharat, Muhammad Naeem, Zakria Qadir, Alagan Anpalagan
Abstract
Abstract Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are inevitable to meet the requirements of future wireless networks. Recently, researchers have investigated diverse issues related to UAV‐assisted networks (including placement of UAVs, resource management, and spectrum sharing) for a broad range of applications, including disaster management, data collection from the ground sensor network, surveillance, logistic support, etc. This article presents a comprehensive survey of recent advances in UAV‐assisted networks. We mainly emphasize the optimization perspective of UAV‐assisted wireless networks with different objectives, including coverage area, throughput, energy efficiency, quality of service, delay, and outage probability. We provide a detailed discussion for each objective with their constraints, optimization problem, solution approach, and performance metrics. We also provide relationships among different objectives and parameters considered in the literature. Finally, we list open research issues and future research directions to improve UAV‐assisted wireless networks in the context of optimization.