Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as an alternative solution to
assist wireless networks, thanks to numerous advantages they offer in comparison to …

In some real-time Internet of Things (IoT) applications, the timeliness of sensor data is very
important for the performance of a system. How to collect the data of sensor nodes (SNs) is a …

In urban environments, tall buildings or structures can pose limits on the direct channel link
between a base station (BS) and an Internet of Thing device (IoTD) for wireless …

Wireless sensor nodes (SNs) are usually energy-limited, a low energy efficiency of SN may
be caused by the occlusion of transmission link in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) …

Thanks to the inherent characteristics of flexible mobility and autonomous operation,
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will inevitably be integrated into 5G/B5G cellular networks …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are regarded as an emerging technology, which can be
effectively utilized to perform the data collection tasks in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks …

The effective integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in future wireless
communication systems depends on the conscious use of their limited energy, which …

The rapid evolution of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is emerging as a promising
technology for wireless network applications such as remote sensing, scalable network …

In this article, we propose a two-tier communication strategy to facilitate data collection in
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled massive Internet of Things (IoT) systems through …

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), there are a dramatically
increasing number of devices, leading to the fact that only using terrestrial infrastructure can …