Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Airborne networks have led to the development of a range of applications including surveillance and monitoring, military and rescue operations. Whilst the conventional focus on airborne networks revolves around control, trajectory optimization and navigation, its application for providing communications has recently emerged and is developing at a very fast pace. With contributions from international experts, this book explores recent advances in the theory and practice of airborne wireless networks for the next generation of wireless networks to support various applications including emergency communications, coverage and capacity expansion, Internet of Things, information dissemination, future healthcare, pop-up networks, etc."-- Provided by publisher.

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Introduction / Muhammad A Imran, Oluwakayode Onireti, Shuja S Ansari, Qammer H Abbasi -- Channel Model for Airborne Networks / Aziz A Khuwaja, Yunfei Chen -- Ultra-wideband Channel Measurements and Modeling for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-to-Wearables (UAV2W) Systems / Amit Kachroo, Surbhi Vishwakarma, Jacob N Dixon, Hisham Abuella, Adithya Popuri, Qammer H Abbasi, Charles F Bunting, Jamey D Jacob, Sabit Ekin -- A Cooperative Multiagent Approach for Optimal Drone Deployment Using Reinforcement Learning / Rigoberto Acosta-Gonzalez, Paulo V Klaine, Samuel Montejo-Sanchez, Richard D Souza, Lei Zhang, Muhammad A Imran -- SWIPT-PS Enabled Cache-Aided Self-Energized UAV for Cooperative Communication / Tharindu D Ponnimbaduge Perera, Dushantha Nalin K Jayakody -- Performance of mmWave UAV-Assisted 5G Hybrid Heterogeneous Networks / Muhammad K Shehzad, Muhammad W Akhtar, Syed A Hassan -- UAV-Enabled Cooperative Jamming for Physical Layer Security in Cognitive Radio Network / Phu X Nguyen, Hieu V Nguyen, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Oh-Soon Shin -- IRS-Assisted Localization for Airborne Mobile Networks / Olaoluwa Popoola, Shuja Ansari, Rafay I Ansari, Lina Mohjazi, Syed A Hassan, Nauman Aslam, Qammer H Abbasi, Muhammad A Imran -- Performance Analysis of UAV-Enabled Disaster Recovery Networks / Rabeea Basir, Saad Qaisar, Mudassar Ali, Naveed Ahmad Chughtai, Muhammad Ali Imran, Anas Hashmi -- Network-Assisted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communication for Smart Monitoring of Lockdown / Navuday Sharma, Muhammad Awais, Haris Pervaiz, Hassan Malik, Qiang Ni -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Agriculture: an Overview of IoT-Based Scenarios / Bacco Manlio, Barsocchi Paolo, Gotta Alberto, Ruggeri Massimiliano -- Airborne Systems and Underwater Monitoring / Elizabeth Basha, Jason To-Tran, Davis Young, Sean Thalken, Christopher Uramoto -- Demystifying Futuristic Satellite Networks: Requirements, Security Threats, and Issues / Muhammad Usman, Muhammad R Asghar, Imran S Ansari, Marwa Qaraqe -- Conclusion.