Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are capable of serving as a data collector for wireless
sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we investigate an energy-effective data gathering …

The accelerated development of the Internet of Things (IoT) incurs a great demand for data
acquired from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), leading to considerable attention on data …

In wireless sensor networks, utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data
collector for the sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication has emerged as an appealing
technology for efficient data collection in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This paper …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless communication systems are able to
provide high-quality services and ubiquitous connectivity for massive Internet of Things (IoT) …

In this article, we investigate the energy minimization problem of an unmanned-aerial-
vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection sensor network. We jointly optimize the trajectory of …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled communication has emerged as an appealing
technology in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for efficient data collection. This paper …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are promising in large-area data collection due to their
flexibility and easy maintenance. In this work, we study a UAV-enabled wireless sensor …

This paper proposes a novel data acquisition framework in sensor networks using an
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the goal of increasing the efficiency of the data …

Energy consumption is one of the important design aspect for data collection in wireless
sensor networks (WSNs). This paper studies data collection from a set of sensor nodes …