| 5G | Fifth Generation |
| 6G | Sixth Generation |
| A2G | Air-to-Ground |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| AWGN | Additive White Gaussian Noise |
| B5G | Beyond 5G |
| D2D | Device-to-Device |
| DDPG | Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient |
| eICIC | Enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination |
| FD | Full-Duplex |
| FSL | Free Space Pathloss |
| GD | Gradient Descent |
| GMT | Ground Mobile Terminal |
| HetNet | Heterogeneous Network |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
| LoS | Line of Sight |
| LTE | Long Term Evolution |
| MDQN | Mutual Deep Q-Network |
| MEA-DP | k-Means Deployment Process |
| MED-DP | k-Medoids Deployment Process |
| MIMO | Multiple-Input Multiple Output |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| MLP | Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| NLoS | Non Line of Sight |
| NOMA | Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access |
| OMA | Orthogonal Multiple Access |
| PSS | Placement Scheme Selection |
| QoS | Quality-of-Service |
| QSM | Quadrature Spatial Modulation |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| SC | Superposition Coding |
| SIC | Successive Interference Cancellation |
| TBS | Terrestrial Base station |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UFBS | UAV Flying Base Station |