Matieva Gulbadan

Background: UAV-assisted communication networks have emerged as vital tools for disaster recovery, offering rapid deployment and scalability in dynamic environments. However, challenges such as regulatory compliance, data security, energy efficiency, and real-time adaptability limit their widespread implementation. Objective: This study aims to develop a multi-objective optimization framework for UAV-assisted networks that enhances coverage efficiency, reduces latency, and optimizes energy consumption while addressing regulatory and data security challenges. Methods: The proposed framework integrates k-means clustering, genetic algorithms, and real-time adaptation mechanisms. Key metrics: coverage, latency, energy efficiency, and regulatory compliance, were evaluated across urban, suburban, and rural disaster scenarios. Dynamic geofencing, end-to-end encryption, and anomaly detection were incorporated to ensure compliance and secure operations. Results: The framework achieved significant improvements: coverage efficiency increased by 8%, latency reduced by 43%, and battery life extended by 33%. Regulatory compliance rose from 75% to 95%, and data security was enhanced with a 50% improvement in threat detection. The framework demonstrated robust scalability, maintaining high performance across diverse user densities. Conclusion: The study presents a scalable and adaptable UAV-assisted communication framework that addresses operational, regulatory, and security challenges. Its results validate its potential for real-world disaster recovery, paving the way for further innovations in this critical domain.

Background: The emergence of 6G networks requires new approaches to extend coverage, increase network availability and optimize performance in difficult conditions, including urban and rural areas. Thus, UAVs or UAV systems have developed as a powerful candidate to counter these problems by offering on-demand contingent coverage and differing communication services.   Objective: The opportunity of the development of UAVs’ application in the extension of the network’s coverage is studied in the context of energy efficiency, latency, and Inter-UE interference in high-density 6G environment. Methods: A three-layered optimization architecture was devised, including multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for interference control, trajectory optimization techniques, and energy-aware deployment schemes. Small scale scenarios including urban, suburban and rural environment were considered and the results were analyzed based on the network coverage, energy efficiency, end to end latency and interference encountered on UAVs. Results: The outcome significantly revealed the enhancements in the spatial coverage of the network; UAVs prevented considerable gaps and offered enhancements of network coverage in rural and suburban regions. These achievements include up to 30.5% energy efficiency enhancement, more than 50% latency minimization and interference management that enabled 35.4% enhancement of SINR. Conclusion: Integrating of drones in 6G network is invaluable in enhancing coverage in the networks by providing massive coverage while at the same time providing scalable solutions to problems of coverage gaps, power demands and real-time network adjustments. In future studies, researchers should channel their efforts toward increasing real-time dynamism and energy consumption that suit large-scale executions.