The increasing popularity of drones is bringing many public security and privacy breach
issues, such as smuggling, intrusion, and illegal surveillance. Traditional approaches to …

Thanks to the increasing number and massive coverage, delivery drones, equipped with
various sensors, have demonstrated significant but unexplored potentials for large-scale …

Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS) is an emerging paradigm that employs massive mobile
devices (MDs) to complete sensing tasks cooperatively. To provide ubiquitous MCS …

The ubiquity of smartphones and their on-board sensing capabilities motivates crowd-
sensing, a capability that harnesses the power of crowds to collect sensor data from a large …

Mobile crowdsensing is a technology that allows large scale, cost-effective sensing of the
physical world. In mobile crowdsensing, mobile personal devices such as smart phones or …

The articles in this special section present the most recent advances in amateur drone
surveillance network architecture and technologies. The advancement in communication …

Machine Learning (ML) is now becoming a key driver empowering the next generation of
drone technology and extending its reach to applications never envisioned before …

Mobile crowdsensing is becoming a vital technique for environment monitoring,
infrastructure management, and social computing. However, deploying mobile …

The recent paradigm of mobile crowd sensing (MCS) enables a broad range of mobile
applications. A critical challenge for the paradigm is to incentivize phone users to be workers …

Mobile crowd sensing received significant attention in the recent years and has become a
popular paradigm for sensing. It operates relying on the rich set of built-in sensors equipped …