UAV-assisted data collection for Internet of Things: A survey

Z Wei, M Zhu, N Zhang, L Wang, Y Zou… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the advantages of flexible deployment and high mobility, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) have been widely applied in the areas of disaster management, agricultural …

Autonomous Vehicles in 5G and beyond: A Survey

S Hakak, TR Gadekallu, PKR Maddikunta… - Vehicular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fifth Generation (5G) mobile technology is the latest generation of mobile networks that is
being deployed to facilitate emerging applications and services. 5G offers enhanced mobile …

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 in wireless sensor networks for energy consumption minimization by deep reinforcement learning

B Zhu, E Bedeer, HH Nguyen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising candidate solution for data
collection of large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we investigate a …

UAV-assisted MEC networks with aerial and ground cooperation

Y Xu, T Zhang, Y Liu, D Yang, L **ao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the high altitude and flexible mobility, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted mobile
edge computing (MEC) is becoming a promising technology to cope with the computation …

Hierarchical deep reinforcement learning for backscattering data collection with multiple UAVs

Y Zhang, Z Mou, F Gao, L **ng… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging backscatter communication technology is recognized as a promising solution
to the battery problem of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For example, the wireless sensor …

Resource allocation and 3-D placement for UAV-enabled energy-efficient IoT communications

Y Liu, K Liu, J Han, L Zhu, Z **ao… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the commercial launch of the fifth-generation (5G) wireless communications gets near,
the trend from the Internet of Things (IoT) to the Internet of Everything (IoE) is emerging. Due …

A survey of energy efficient methods for UAV communication

H **, X **, Y Zhou, P Guo, J Ren, J Yao… - Vehicular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are characterized by high flexibility and low deployment
costs. Therefore, UAVs, in recent years, have been widely used in all walks of life, such as …

5G network slicing with unmanned aerial vehicles: Taxonomy, survey, and future directions

T Bouzid, N Chaib, ML Bensaad… - Transactions on …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the ever‐expanding rise of network demands and user expectations, the fifth
generation (5G) of cellular networks was envisioned to support a plethora of use cases and …

UAV-aided edge/fog computing in smart IoT community for social augmented reality

Z Tan, H Qu, J Zhao, S Zhou… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In 5G and beyond, the adequate interaction between densely deployed Internet-of-Things
(IoT) devices and cellular users will generate a massive cyber-physical information stream in …