UAV-assisted data collection for Internet of Things: A survey

Z Wei, M Zhu, N Zhang, L Wang, Y Zou… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the advantages of flexible deployment and high mobility, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) have been widely applied in the areas of disaster management, agricultural …

A survey of UAV-based data collection: Challenges, solutions and future perspectives

K Messaoudi, OS Oubbati, A Rachedi, A Lakas… - Journal of network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) generates unlimited data, which should be collected and
forwarded towards a central controller (CC) for further processing and decision-making …

Machine learning-aided operations and communications of unmanned aerial vehicles: A contemporary survey

H Kurunathan, H Huang, K Li, W Ni… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have provided pervasive, efficient,
and cost-effective solutions for data collection and communications. Their excellent mobility …

AoI-energy-aware UAV-assisted data collection for IoT networks: A deep reinforcement learning method

M Sun, X Xu, X Qin, P Zhang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the inherent characteristics of flexible mobility and autonomous operation,
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will inevitably be integrated into 5G/B5G cellular networks …

UAV trajectory planning for AoI-minimal data collection in UAV-aided IoT networks by transformer

B Zhu, E Bedeer, HH Nguyen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted
increasing attention. By taking into account age-of-information (AoI), we investigate the …

AoI-sensitive data collection in multi-UAV-assisted wireless sensor networks

X Gao, X Zhu, L Zhai - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is widely used in some scenes with high requirements
for information freshness. Due to the limited endurance of the UAV, especially in the scenes …

Joint optimization risk factor and energy consumption in IoT networks with TinyML-enabled internet of UAVs

R Liu, M Xie, A Liu, H Song - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The high mobility of Internet unmanned aerial vehicles (IUAVs) has attracted attention in the
field of data collection. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), more and …

Bio-inspired approaches for energy-efficient localization and clustering in UAV networks for monitoring wildfires in remote areas

MY Arafat, S Moh - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In dynamic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, localization and clustering are
fundamental functions for cooperative control. In this article, we propose bio-inspired …

AoI-aware scheduling for air-ground collaborative mobile edge computing

Z Qin, Z Wei, Y Qu, F Zhou, H Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a way of providing users flexible computing services, networks exist that can make full
use of air and ground computing resources. Such networks are called air-ground …

Age of Information minimization in UAV-aided data collection for WSN and IoT applications: A systematic review

OA Amodu, UA Bukar, RAR Mahmood, C Jarray… - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for data gathering in wireless sensor networks
(WSNs) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications has significantly gained interest in recent …