Urban computing for sustainable smart cities: Recent advances, taxonomy, and open research challenges

IAT Hashem, RSA Usmani, MS Almutairi, AO Ibrahim… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The recent proliferation of ubiquitous computing technologies has led to the emergence of
urban computing that aims to provide intelligent services to inhabitants of smart cities. Urban …

UAV computing-assisted search and rescue mission framework for disaster and harsh environment mitigation

SH Alsamhi, AV Shvetsov, S Kumar, SV Shvetsova… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Disasters are crisis circumstances that put human life in jeopardy. During disasters, public
communication infrastructure is particularly damaged, obstructing Search And Rescue …

[HTML][HTML] Modern computing: Vision and challenges

SS Gill, H Wu, P Patros, C Ottaviani, P Arora… - … and Informatics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past six decades, the computing systems field has experienced significant
transformations, profoundly impacting society with transformational developments, such as …

Joint flying relay location and routing optimization for 6g uav–iot networks: A graph neural network-based approach

X Wang, L Fu, N Cheng, R Sun, T Luan, W Quan… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks,
especially in remote areas where communication infrastructure is unavailable, due to …

A survey of mobility-aware multi-access edge computing: Challenges, use cases and future directions

R Singh, R Sukapuram, S Chakraborty - Ad Hoc Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Many mobile and pervasive applications avail cloud services to reduce overheads in on-
device computation. The performance of these services depends on the available bandwidth …

A survey on the design aspects and opportunities in age-aware uav-aided data collection for sensor networks and internet of things applications

OA Amodu, R Nordin, C Jarray, UA Bukar… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Due to the limitations of sensor devices, including short transmission distance and
constrained energy, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently deployed to …

UAV fleet as a dependable service for smart cities: Model-based assessment and application

V Kharchenko, I Kliushnikov, A Rucinski, H Fesenko… - Smart Cities, 2022 - mdpi.com
The paper suggests a model-based approach to assessment and choice of parameters of
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleets applied as one of the main services for Smart Cities …

Exploring the potential of distributed computing continuum systems

PK Donta, I Murturi, V Casamayor Pujol, B Sedlak… - Computers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Computing paradigms have evolved significantly in recent decades, moving from large room-
sized resources (processors and memory) to incredibly small computing nodes. Recently …

Federated learning meets intelligence reflection surface in drones for enabling 6G networks: challenges and opportunities

AV Shvetsov, SH Alsamhi, A Hawbani, S Kumar… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The combination of drones and Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) have emerged as
potential technologies for improving the performance of six Generation (6G) communication …

A NOMA and MRC enabled framework in drone-relayed vehicular networks: Height/trajectory optimization and performance analysis

Y He, F Huang, D Wang, R Zhang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present a drone-relayed vehicular networking architecture, which aims to
improve the achievable data rate of cell-edge vehicles in rural highway scenarios …