Nowadays the deployment of drones/UAVs is not just limited to military and defense establishments; they are also widely deployed in geo-dispersed applications (environmental monitoring, rescue operation monitoring, road and traffic surveillance, natural disaster monitoring, soil and crop analysis, and consumer product delivery). Drones have become the instigators and enablers of global mechanization. For example, the influx of precocious drones is recognizable looking at the high angled photography of peculiar landscapes. Likewise, multiple drones coordinate and collaborate with each other to form a web of flying computing resources which can sense, analyze, and transmit data to remote cloud servers and storage spaces. Even more, the popularity of next generation communication technologies has opened a new vertical in the form of 5G-en-abled flying automation using drones. This new dimension for drone communication has attracted the wide attention of the academia, research and industrial communities. 5G-enabled flying automation empowers the astronomically large numbers of connected things in a drone-enabled smart ecosystem to communicate among themselves and thereafter decisively handle the progressively intricate traffic conditions.

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客座社论：区块链设想的无人机：实现 5G 驱动的飞行自动化


如今，无人机/无人机的部署不仅限于军事和国防设施；它们还广泛部署在地理分散的应用中（环境监测、救援行动监测、道路和交通监控、自然灾害监测、土壤和作物分析以及消费品交付）。无人机已成为全球机械化的煽动者和推动者。例如，从奇特风景的高角度摄影中可以看出早熟无人机的涌入。同样，多架无人机相互协调和协作，形成飞行计算资源网络，可以感知、分析数据并将数据传输到远程云服务器和存储空间。更重要的是，下一代通信技术的普及开辟了一个新的垂直领域，即使用无人机进行 5G 飞行自动化。无人机通信的这一新维度引起了学术界、研究界和工业界的广泛关注。支持 5G 的飞行自动化使无人机智能生态系统中数量庞大的互联事物能够相互通信，从而果断地处理日益复杂的交通状况。