Feature Topic,Vol.15,No.5,2018Network-Connected UAV Communications Unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)have found fast growing civilian and commercial applications in recent years,such as for cargo delivery,precise agriculture,sky monitoring,video streaming,traffic control,rescue and search,communication relaying.However,existing UAV systems mainly rely on the traditional direct ground-to-UAV communications over the unlicensed spectrum(e.g.,ISM2.4GHz),which is of limited data rate,unreliable,insecure,vulnerable to interference,and can only operate within the visual line of