Reward maximization for disaster zone monitoring with heterogeneous uavs

W Xu, C Wang, H Xie, W Liang, H Dai… - IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the deployment of heterogeneous UAVs to monitor Points of Interest
(PoIs) in a disaster zone, where a PoI may represent a school building or an office building …

Coverage Maximization of Heterogeneous UAV Networks

S Li, C Xiang, W Xu, J Peng, Z Xu, J Li… - 2023 IEEE 43rd …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we study the deployment of a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) network that
consists of multiple UAVs to provide emergent communication services to people trapped in …

Throughput maximization of UAV networks

W Xu, Y Sun, R Zou, W Liang, Q Xia… - IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we study the deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to form a
temporal UAV network for the provisioning of emergent communications to affected people …

Minimizing the longest tour time among a fleet of UAVs for disaster area surveillance

Q Guo, J Peng, W Xu, W Liang, X Jia… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the employment of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to
monitor Points of Interests (PoIs) in a disaster area, eg, collapsed buildings after an …

Optimal throughput management in UAV-based networks during disasters

L Chiaraviglio, L Amorosi, F Malandrino… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small Cells (SCs) installed on board of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a promising
solution to provide wireless coverage to users escaping from an area affected by a disaster …

Deploying the minimum number of rechargeable uavs for a quarantine barrier

X Zhu, Z Han, S Tang, L Xu, C Dong - ACM Transactions on Sensor …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
To control the rapid spread of COVID-19, we consider deploying a set of Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) to form a quarantine barrier such that anyone crossing the barrier can be …

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 …

Nonredundant information collection in rescue applications via an energy-constrained UAV

Y Liang, W Xu, W Liang, J Peng, X Jia… - IEEE Internet of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as promising devices to provide valuable
information in rescue applications, which can be dispatched to take photographs for points …

Efficient deployment of UAVs for disaster management: A multi-criterion optimization approach

R Masroor, M Naeem, W Ejaz - Computer Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently different information and communication technologies are investigated to manage
disasters. Acknowledging disaster resilience, many efforts are commenced to monitor …

UAVs to the rescue: Prolonging the lifetime of wireless devices under disaster situations

H Shakhatreh, A Khreishah, B Ji - IEEE Transactions on Green …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when
cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider …