The use of drones has rapidly evolved over the past decade involving a variety of fields
ranging from agriculture, commercial and becoming increasingly used in disaster …

Integrating disruptive technologies within smart cities improves the infrastructure needed to
potentially deal with disasters. This paper provides a perspective review of disruptive …

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 …

Colosseum is an open-access and publicly-available large-scale wireless testbed for
experimental research via virtualized and softwarized waveforms and protocol stacks on a …

Floods have been a major cause of destruction, instigating fatalities and massive damage to
the infrastructure and overall economy of the affected country. Flood-related devastation …

With the advancements of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) technology for use in
different environments, it can be easily substituted for traditional transportation in event of …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crowdsensing (UCS) is an emerging data collection
paradigm to provide reliable and high quality urban sensing services, with age-of …

The outstanding advantages of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have led to an intensive
study of the UAV system over the past decade. A variety of potential UAV applications are …

In the last decades, natural disasters, such as earthquakes and landslides, have occurred
frequently, seriously threatening the safety of people's lives and property. How emergency …

The allocation and scheduling of the emergency rescue forces is a fundamental task in
emergency management. This paper aims to address the allocation and scheduling problem …