An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising carriage for data gathering in wireless
sensor networks since it has sufficient as well as efficient resources both in terms of time and …

Abstract Recently, Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have turned out to be a dominant
subject of research due to its application areas. Moreover, with the integration of Unmanned …

Data collection from deployed sensor networks can be with static sink, ground-based mobile
sink, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based mobile aerial data collector. Considering the …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are usually deployed to different areas of interest to sense
phenomena, process sensed data, and take actions accordingly. The networks are …

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 …

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 …

Energy efficiency is an important issue in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The energy is
mainly consumed by data sensing, data transmission and movement of sensors. The energy …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data collection is a promising research direction that can be
applied to many practical scenarios. Due to the limited energy of sensors in wireless sensor …

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 …

One of the most important requirements for effective UAV–WSN operations is to perform data
collection in timely and safe manner. Identifying an effective path in an environment with …