Leveraging public buses to relay uavs for on-demand applications

J Gao, Y Pan, Z Li, Q Han, Q Chen - Proceedings of the 28th Annual …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely employed in smart city. However, the limited
battery capacity is one of the UAV's most critical obstacles to monitoring mission. Recently …

Towards Efficient Urban Emergency Response Using UAVs Riding Crowdsourced Buses

J Gao, Q Wang, Z Li, X Zhang, Y Hu… - IEEE Internet of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely applied in smart city applications such as
urban sensing and delivery, due to the UAVs' agility, low cost and not being restricted by …

Extending delivery range and decelerating battery aging of logistics UAVs using public buses

Y Pan, Q Chen, N Zhang, Z Li, T Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The battery-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a promising alternative to
traditional logistics trucks. Using UAVs can achieve much more speedy, cost-effective, and …

Efficient schedule of energy-constrained UAV using crowdsourced buses in last-mile parcel delivery

Y Pan, S Li, Q Chen, N Zhang, T Cheng, Z Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Stimulated by the dramatical service demand in the logistics industry, logistics trucks
employed in last-mile parcel delivery bring critical public concerns, such as heavy cost …

Multi-UAV cooperative trajectory for servicing dynamic demands and charging battery

K Wang, X Zhang, L Duan, J Tie - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is a promising solution for providing high-
quality mobile services (eg, edge computing, fast Internet connection, and local caching) to …

Leveraging communicating UAVs for emergency vehicle guidance in urban areas

OS Oubbati, A Lakas, P Lorenz… - … on Emerging Topics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The response time to emergency situations in urban areas is considered as a crucial key in
limiting material damage or even saving human lives. Thanks to their “bird's eye view” and …

Opportunistic UAV relaying for urban vehicular networks

T Hardes, C Sommer - 2022 17th Wireless On-Demand …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the impact of employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) flying random,
arbitrary missions as purely-opportunistic relays for cooperative awareness applications in …

Design guidelines for cooperative UAV-supported services and applications

I Al Ridhawi, O Bouachir, M Aloqaily… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Internet of Things (IoT) systems have advanced greatly in the past few years, especially with
the support of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. Numerous AI …

When UAVs ride a bus: Towards energy-efficient city-scale video surveillance

A Trotta, FD Andreagiovanni, M Di Felice… - Ieee infocom 2018 …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a network architecture and supporting optimization framework that
allows Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform city-scale video monitoring of a set of …

Towards trajectory prediction-based uav deployment in smart transportation systems

F Liang, X Liu, NA Kose… - 2023 32nd International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A smart transportation system (ie, intelligent transportation system) refers to a transportation
critical infrastructure system that integrates advanced technologies (eg, networking …