With the booming development of medical informatization and the ubiquitous connections in
the fifth generation mobile communication technology (5G) era, the heterogeneity and …

This paper investigates an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-enabled network consisting of
smart mobile devices and multiple UAVs as aerial base stations in a Multiple-Input Multiple …

A vehicular delay-tolerant network (VDTN) allows mobile vehicles (MVs) to collect data from
widely deployed delay-tolerant sensors in a smart city through opportunistic routing, which …

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is connected if a communication path exists among each
pair of sensor nodes (motes). Maintaining reliable connectivity in WSNs is a complicated …

Sensor network, as one component of mobile edge computing (MEC), is a promising
platform to provide services for users. With the development of artificial intelligence (AI) …

Reliable connectivity restoration mechanism is essential for retaining the prolonged network
functioning of Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs). WSANs operate in harsh or …

Coverage enhancement is an important strategy to avoid coverage holes caused by the
random deployment of sensor nodes. Given the harsh physical environments of wireless …

Communication quality is compromised when wireless sensor network (WSN) operate in
harsh environments, which can be improved by supplementing the nodes. This paper …

Mobile sensor networks (MSNs) have emerged from the interaction between mobile robotics
and wireless sensor networks. MSNs can be deployed in harsh environments, where …

The Internet of Things (IoT) can be supported by multiple isolated sensor networks (MISN)
when the connectivity of IoT is constrained by obstacles. Mobile nodes have been used as …