Path planning techniques for unmanned aerial vehicles: A review, solutions, and challenges

S Aggarwal, N Kumar - Computer communications, 2020 - Elsevier
Path planning is one of the most important problems to be explored in unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) for finding an optimal path between source and destination. Although, in …

A comprehensive overview on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: From communications to sensing and intelligence

Q Wu, J Xu, Y Zeng, DWK Ng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular
infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and …

AoI-minimal trajectory planning and data collection in UAV-assisted wireless powered IoT networks

H Hu, K **ong, G Qu, Q Ni, P Fan… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless powered
Internet-of-Things system, where a UAV takes off from a data center, flies to each of the …

UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges

B Alzahrani, OS Oubbati, A Barnawi… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology with the potential to
be used in industries and various sectors of human life to provide a wide range of …

A survey of UAV-based data collection: Challenges, solutions and future perspectives

K Messaoudi, OS Oubbati, A Rachedi, A Lakas… - Journal of network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) generates unlimited data, which should be collected and
forwarded towards a central controller (CC) for further processing and decision-making …

UAV trajectory planning for data collection from time-constrained IoT devices

M Samir, S Sharafeddine, CM Assi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The global evolution of wireless technologies and intelligent sensing devices are
transforming the realization of smart cities. Among the myriad of use cases, there is a need …

3D trajectory optimization in Rician fading for UAV-enabled data harvesting

C You, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dispatching unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to harvest sensing-data from distributed
sensors is expected to significantly improve the data collection efficiency in conventional …

UAV-aided data collection for information freshness in wireless sensor networks

J Liu, P Tong, X Wang, B Bai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we study the UAV-enabled data collection problem for high information
freshness in wireless sensor networks, where one UAV is dispatched to collect information …

Age of information aware trajectory planning of UAVs in intelligent transportation systems: A deep learning approach

M Samir, C Assi, S Sharafeddine… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to play a key role in intelligent
transportation systems to complement the communication infrastructure in future smart cities …

Hybrid offline-online design for UAV-enabled data harvesting in probabilistic LoS channels

C You, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network
(WSN) in urban areas, where a UAV is deployed to collect data from distributed sensor …