First Responders Got Wings: UAVs to the Rescue of Localization Operations in Beyond 5G Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03180v3
• Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:21:29 GMT
• Title: First Responders Got Wings: UAVs to the Rescue of Localization Operations in Beyond 5G Systems
• Authors: Antonio Albanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Costa-P\'erez
• Abstract summary: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)-based solutions are the most promising candidates to take up on the localization challenge. In this paper, we capitalize on such recently available techniques by shedding light on the main challenges and future opportunities to boost the localization performance of state-of-the-art techniques.
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• Abstract: Natural and human-made disasters have dramatically increased during the last decades. Given the strong relationship between first responders localization time and the final number of deaths, the modernization of search-and-rescue operations has become imperative. In this context, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)-based solutions are the most promising candidates to take up on the localization challenge by leveraging on emerging technologies such as: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) and Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulations. In this paper, we capitalize on such recently available techniques by shedding light on the main challenges and future opportunities to boost the localization performance of state-of-the-art techniques to give birth to unprecedentedly effective missing victims localization solutions.

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