Aerial Access Networks: Integration of UAVs, HAPs, and Satellites

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.

Lingyang Song is a Distinguished Professor at Peking University, Beijing, China. His main research interests include wireless communication and networks, signal processing, and machine learning. He was the recipient of the IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2016) and the IEEE Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award (2012). He has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer since 2015.

Boya Di is an Assistant Professor at Peking University, China where she obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2019. She received the best doctoral thesis award from China Education Society of Electronics (2019), the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award (2021), and IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2022). She is currently an associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Hongliang Zhang is an Assistant Professor at Peking University. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral associate at Princeton University, New Jersey. Dr. Zhang is the recipient of IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letters (2021) and IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award (2021).

Zhu Han is currently a Professor at the University of Houston, Texas. Dr. Han has received an NSF Career Award (2010), Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2011), EURASIP Best Paper Award (2015), IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2016) and was the winner of IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2021), for outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies.