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 …

Evolution of non-terrestrial networks from 5G to 6G: A survey

MM Azari, S Solanki, S Chatzinotas… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) traditionally have certain limited applications. However, the
recent technological advancements and manufacturing cost reduction opened up myriad …

AI for UAV-assisted IoT applications: A comprehensive review

N Cheng, S Wu, X Wang, Z Yin, C Li… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), there are a dramatically
increasing number of devices, leading to the fact that only using terrestrial infrastructure can …

Age of information: An introduction and survey

RD Yates, Y Sun, DR Brown, SK Kaul… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We summarize recent contributions in the broad area of age of information (AoI). In
particular, we describe the current state of the art in the design and optimization of low …

UAV trajectory planning for AoI-minimal data collection in UAV-aided IoT networks by transformer

B Zhu, E Bedeer, HH Nguyen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted
increasing attention. By taking into account age-of-information (AoI), we investigate the …

AoI-sensitive data collection in multi-UAV-assisted wireless sensor networks

X Gao, X Zhu, L Zhai - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is widely used in some scenes with high requirements
for information freshness. Due to the limited endurance of the UAV, especially in the scenes …

Semantics-empowered communications: A tutorial-cum-survey

Z Lu, R Li, K Lu, X Chen, E Hossain… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Along with the springing up of the semantics-empowered communication (SemCom)
research, it is now witnessing an unprecedentedly growing interest towards a wide range of …

Trajectory design for UAV-based Internet of Things data collection: A deep reinforcement learning approach

Y Wang, Z Gao, J Zhang, X Cao… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted Internet of Things
(IoT) system in a sophisticated 3-D environment, where the UAV's trajectory is optimized to …

Average AoI minimization in UAV-assisted data collection with RF wireless power transfer: A deep reinforcement learning scheme

L Liu, K **ong, J Cao, Y Lu, P Fan… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless powered network,
where a UAV is dispatched to wirelessly charge multiple ground nodes (GNs) by using radio …

Multi-UAV path planning for wireless data harvesting with deep reinforcement learning

H Bayerlein, M Theile, M Caccamo… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Harvesting data from distributed Internet of Things (IoT) devices with multiple autonomous
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging problem requiring flexible path planning …