Aerial Access Networks
Integration of UAVs, HAPs, and Satellites

A comprehensive book on aerial access networks. Useful for students and researchers interested in design, evaluation, and applications.

Lingyang Song (Author), Boya Di (Author), Hongliang Zhang (Author), Zhu Han (Author)

9781108837934, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 2 November 2023

344 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.75 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: WAP [wireless technology TJKW]