Creating download queue of images - ios

I want to create method in that coming images and all of them downloading in queue one by one. I use AFNetworking 2.0. I want to know is there any pre-created code that can help me in my question ?
My code
NSString *urlString = link;
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
NSURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
AFHTTPRequestOperation *requestOperation = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:urlRequest];
requestOperation.responseSerializer = [AFImageResponseSerializer serializer];
[requestOperation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
UIImage *image = responseObject;
//here I seve image to disk and so on
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
DDLogError(#"FAIL download image: %#",error);
}];

Try with dispatch_group: all downloads are group into one queue and are downloaded one by one
AFNetworking 2.0 download multiple images with completion

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