We investigate the idea of using a fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) as a mobile
sink in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) to increase the network lifetime. We formulate and …

This paper describes the design and implementation of a heterogeneous multi-agent system
consisting of a wireless sensor network and a mobile agent (UAV) for automatic network …

Sensor networks are rapidly growing for their large applicability to various purposes. From
engineering perspectives, one of the most critical issues in sensor networks is energy …

Mobile Sinks has been widely used in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to increase the
network lifetime, especially to distribute energy consumption among the nodes composing …

Abstract Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) support a variety of data collection scenarios
and have profound effects on both military and civil applications, such as environmental …

The commercialization of cheap unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is starting to change the
way we, as sensor network system designers, think of data collection. Especially, UAVs …

Small drones are being utilized in monitoring, transport, safety and disaster management,
and other domains. Envisioning that drones form autonomous networks incorporated into …

The drones are nowadays devices able to help human operators in a lot of fields, one of
these regards the operations of rescue in disasters or emergency events. In these scenarios …

In this paper, we develop a wireless data gathering model for a multi-drone system in
traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs), where each drone serves as a data collector in …

Small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have received high attention by the robotics
community for delivering sensory data of limited size. Yet, the communication capabilities of …