The recent technological evolution of drones along with the constantly growing maturity of its
commercialization, has led to the emergence of novel drone-based applications within the …

Drones are frequently used for the delivery of materials or other goods, and to facilitate the
capture and transmission of data. Moreover, drone networks have gained significant interest …

Data collection is the most important task in wireless sensor networks (WSN). Each sensor
node has to send the sensed data to a special node called sink, which is the user interface …

In this paper, we investigate the use of a swarm of drones as mobile data gathering sinks for
scattered wireless sensors over large areas. Precisely, we address the path planning issue …

The benefits of using mobile sinks or data mules for data collection in Wireless Sensor
Network (WSN) have been studied in several works. However, most of them consider only …

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

In this paper, we consider a drone deployment problem in situations where the number of
drones to be deployed is small compared to the number of users on the ground. In this …

Sensor nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can be dispersed over a remote sensing
area eg the regions that cannot be accessed by human beings (inaccessible regions). In …

Drones equipped with visual sensors are extensively utilized in various area coverage
applications such as area mapping, monitoring of crops and road traffic, rescue operations …

Data collection by autonomous mobile sensor arrays can be coupled with the use of drones
which provide a low-cost, easily deployable backhauling solution. These means of collection …