LVBS: Lightweight vehicular blockchain for secure data sharing in disaster rescue

Z Su, Y Wang, Q Xu, N Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In disaster areas, a large amount of data (eg, rescue commands, road damage, and rescue
experience) should be delivered among ground rescuing vehicles for safe driving and …

Complementarity, interoperability, and level of integration of humanitarian drones with emerging digital technologies: A state-of-the-art systematic literature review of …

E Aretoulaki, ST Ponis, G Plakas - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The adoption of drones and other emerging digital technologies (DTs) has proven essential
in revolutionizing humanitarian logistics as standalone solutions. However, the …

Data collection maximization in IoT-sensor networks via an energy-constrained UAV

Y Li, W Liang, W Xu, Z Xu, X Jia, Y Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study sensing data collection of IoT devices in a sparse IoT-sensor network,
using an energy-constrained Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), where the sensory data is …

Minimizing the maximum charging delay of multiple mobile chargers under the multi-node energy charging scheme

W Xu, W Liang, X Jia, H Kan, Y Xu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless energy charging has emerged as a very promising technology for prolonging
sensor lifetime in wireless rechargeable sensor networks (WRSNs). Existing studies focused …

Throughput maximization of UAV networks

W Xu, Y Sun, R Zou, W Liang, Q **a… - IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we study the deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to form a
temporal UAV network for the provisioning of emergent communications to affected people …

Resource allocation in UAV-assisted networks: A clustering-aided reinforcement learning approach

S Zhou, Y Cheng, X Lei, Q Peng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an aerial base station, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been considered as a
promising technology to assist future wireless communications due to its flexible, swift and …

Minimizing the deployment cost of UAVs for delay-sensitive data collection in IoT networks

W Xu, T **ao, J Zhang, W Liang, Z Xu… - IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to collect data
from IoT devices, by finding a data collection tour for each UAV. To ensure the 'freshness' of …

Joint task offloading and resource allocation in aerial-terrestrial UAV networks with edge and fog computing for post-disaster rescue

G Sun, L He, Z Sun, Q Wu, S Liang, J Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing an increasingly important role in assisting fast-
response post-disaster rescue due to their fast deployment, flexible mobility, and low cost …

Minimizing the number of deployed UAVs for delay-bounded data collection of IoT devices

J Zhang, Z Li, W Xu, J Peng, W Liang… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to collect data
from IoT devices, by finding the data collection tour of each UAV. To ensure thefreshness' of …

Minimizing the longest tour time among a fleet of UAVs for disaster area surveillance

Q Guo, J Peng, W Xu, W Liang, X Jia… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the employment of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to
monitor Points of Interests (PoIs) in a disaster area, eg, collapsed buildings after an …