Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are playing an important role in various areas due
to their agility and versatility, which have attracted significant attentions from both the …

Due to the flying nature of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), it is very attractive to deploy
UAVs as aerial base stations and construct airborne networks to provide service for on …

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (ABSs) has been
considered to be a feasible solution to provide network coverage in scenarios where the …

Collective motion is a fundamental operation of robot swarms by which a group of robots
move from a source to a destination in a cohesive way (ie, connectivity is preserved during …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide a convenient way to monitor the physical
environment. They consist of a large number of sensors that have sensing, computing, and …

In wireless sensor-actor networks, sensors probe their surroundings and forward their data
to actor nodes. Actors collaboratively respond to achieve predefined application mission …

Several factors such as initial deployment, battery depletion or hardware failures can cause
partition wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This results in most of the sensors losing …

A Wireless Sensor and Actor Network (WSAN) is a group of wireless devices with the ability
to sense physical events (sensors) or/and to perform relatively complicated actions (actors) …

Relay node placement in wireless environments is a research topic recurrently studied in the
specialized literature. A variety of network performance goals, such as coverage, data rate …

Abstract In recent years, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are used in agricultural Internet
of Things (IoT) to observe crop data, that has improved the output and quality of agricultural …