The global evolution of wireless technologies and intelligent sensing devices are
transforming the realization of smart cities. Among the myriad of use cases, there is a need …

This paper presents design strategies of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to deploy
wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for post-disaster monitoring. Natural disasters are …

The comparative study of four practical three-dimensional (3D) path planning algorithm
based on geometry search is proceeded in this paper, the four algorithms include Dijkstra …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be important components in the
upcoming wireless communication field, which are increasingly used as data collectors to …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used to collect data from ground nodes
(GNs) in various applications because of their flexibility and mobility. Some emergency …

Due to the flexibility and agility, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising way for
gathering data generated by wireless sensor networks. However, the limited battery capacity …

Effective disaster management is one of the most important challenges faced on the global
scale. The inaccessibility of large parts of terrain despite the urgent need of support …

In this paper, we propose a method that achieves efficient monitoring of the entire of a
disaster site, using multiple UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) owned by different …

We study a mobile edge computing system assisted by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), where the UAVs act as edge servers to provide computing services for Internet of …

This paper reports on our ongoing research on deploying small-scale, battery-powered and
wirelessly connected UAVs carrying cameras for disaster management applications. In this …