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 …

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 …

The benefits of using mobile sinks or data mules for data collection in Wireless Sensor
Network (WSN) have been studied in several works. In this paper, we consider a drone with …

We investigate the idea of using a fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) as a mobile
sink in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) to increase the network lifetime. We formulate and …

The design of an effective and robust data gathering algorithm is crucial to the overall
performance of wireless sensor networks (WSN). However, using traditional routing …

Data gathering in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) using mobile sink (MS) reduces the
uneven energy consumption of the sensors. However, the data gathering delay increases …

Gathering information in a sensing field of interest is a fundamental task in wireless sensor
networks. Current methods either use multihop forwarding to the sink via stationary nodes or …

The introduction of a drone-based mobile sink into wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which
has flexible mobility to move to each sensor node and gather data with a single-hop …

This paper proposes two path-planning schemes for data collection in WSN using a drone
flying over the sensor nodes to collect their data. We assign a weight to each sensor node …

Wireless sensors networks (WSNs) are deployed to collect huge amounts of data from the
environment. This produced data has to be delivered through sensor's wireless interface …