Various methods for route planning of on-road vehicles to serve transportation requests
have been developed in the literature in order to reduce transportation and operational …

Data gathering is a subject of interest in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Because these
networks use devices with limited resources, to obtain good results, they must be well …

The market of drones is expected to grow significantly by the near few years, while military,
civil and commercial applications continue to emerge. In an earlier study we focused on the …

Opportunistic networks provide the underlying foundations to enable collaborative and
distributed applications close to users. These applications exploit the temporal and spatial …

In Recent studies, mobile element acts as a mechanical carrier equipped with a powerful
transceiver and battery. It directly collects the data from the sensors in the sensing …

This paper studies various data collection and transmission technologies and the
architectures concerning Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) with the aid of Unmanned Aerial …

Mobile nodes are used for prolonging the life-time of the entire wireless sensor networks
and many studies that use drones to collected data have been actively conducted with the …

Drones are a promising tool for parcel delivery, since they are cost-efficient and
environmentally friendly. However, owing to the limited capacity of the on-board battery, their …

In recent years, drone technology has developed rapidly. Drone's low cost, fast and flexible
deployment, as well as strong mobility have made it possible to use drone-assisted sensor …

In this paper, we consider a drone deployment problem in situations where the number of
drones to be deployed is small compared to the number of users on the ground. In this …