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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can provide efficient and effective solutions for the
development of smart cities. They have been widely used in civilian and military …

Billions of sensors and devices are connecting to the Internet of Thing (IoT) and generating
massive data which are benefit for smart network systems. However, low-cost, secure, and …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are usually deployed to different areas of interest to sense
phenomena, process sensed data, and take actions accordingly. The networks are …

Integrated systems based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) with electric propulsion are emerging as state-of-the-art solutions for large …

This article investigates an unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-assisted Internet of Things
system, where multiple UAVs take off from a data center (DC), collect data from multiple …

Internet of things (IoT), mobile edge computing (MEC), and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
have attracted significant attention in both industry and academic research. By consolidating …