Call for Papers

UAVs can be exploited as a promising communication platform in future wireless networks due to their inherent advantage of flexibility, mobility, hovering and low cost. However, the most challenging issue for UAV-enabled communications and networking is the short endurance for UAVs due to the limited on-board energy storage, and the energy efficiency should be optimized including the propulsion power to make the utilization of UAVs more practical. On the other hand, UAVs can fly close to the ground energy receiver with excellent LoS air-to-ground channels, and the efficiency of wireless power transfer can be significantly improved. In addition, as UAV can be flexibly combined with most of the latest wireless advances to achieve better performance, the green issue of UAVs should be emphasized with great effort. The goal of this Special Issue is to disseminate the latest research and innovations on UAV-Enabled Green Communications and Networking, i.e., to achieve sustainable, energy-efficient, energy-aware, and environment-aware communications and networking assisted by UAVs. Review papers on this topic are also welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• UAV assisted green 5G and beyond networks
• Energy-efficient trajectory optimization
• Energy-efficient MIMO for UAV networks
• Energy-efficient NOMA-UAV networks
• Green Interference management of UAV networks
• Energy-saving techniques for battery life of UAVs
• Energy efficiency optimization for mmWave UAV communications
• Energy-efficient design of hybrid precoding for mmWave UAV communications
• UAV-enabled green data offloading for ground cellular networks
• UAV-assisted-green emergency networks
• Green cognitive UAV networking
• UAV-enabled green ground data collocation
• Energy efficiency optimization for the secure UAV assisted networks
• UAV-assisted green edge computing
• Intelligent UAV-assisted green communications and networking
• Energy efficiency design for intelligent reflecting surface assisted UAV communications
• Energy-efficient UAV relaying systems
• UAV-enabled wireless power transfer
• Energy efficiency optimization for wireless power transfer via UAVs
• Energy harvesting for IoT sensors via UAVs
• UAV-enabled SWIPT
• Energy efficiency optimization for SWIPT via UAVs
• Secure air-to-ground SWIPT

Submission Guidelines

Authors need to follow the manuscript format and an allowable number of pages described at the IEEE TGCN Information for Authors page. To submit a manuscript for consideration for the special issue, please visit the journal submission website at Manuscript Central.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission: 31 December 2020 (Extended Deadline)
First Review Results: 1 February 2021
Revised Manuscript Submission: 1 March 2021
Second Review Results: 31 March 2021
Final Manuscript: 20 April 2021
Publication: June 2021

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