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 …

Secure and energy-efficient UAV relay communications exploiting collaborative beamforming

G Sun, J Li, A Wang, Q Wu, Z Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising communication platform to assist terrestrial
networks. In this work, we aim to provide relay communication to the blocked or low-quality …

STMTO: A smart and trust multi-UAV task offloading system

J Guo, G Huang, Q Li, NN Xiong, S Zhang, T Wang - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
As one of promising distributed multi-robot system, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can
collaborate to offload complex tasks in edge networks. A Smart and Trust Multi-UAV Task …

Cooperative computation offloading for multi-access edge computing in 6G mobile networks via soft actor critic

C Sun, X Wu, X Li, Q Fan, J Wen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by numerous emerging services and applications of mobile devices, multi-access
edge computing (MEC) is regarded as a promising technique for massive Internet of Things …

Fair energy-efficient resource optimization for multi-UAV enabled Internet of Things

X Liu, Z Liu, B Lai, B Peng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled Internet of Things (IoT) can keep network
connectivity when the ground infrastructures are paralyzed. However, its transmission …

Multi-objective optimization for UAV swarm-assisted IoT with virtual antenna arrays

J Li, G Sun, L Duan, Q Wu - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network is a promising technology for assisting Internet-of-
Things (IoT), where a UAV can use its limited service coverage to harvest and disseminate …

Event-triggered adaptive fault-tolerant synchronization tracking control for multiple 6-DOF fixed-wing UAVs

B Zhang, X Sun, S Liu, M Lv… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In contrast with most existing results concerning unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) wherein
two-degree or only attitude/longitudinal dynamics are considered, this article proposes an …

Offline and online UAV-enabled data collection in time-constrained IoT networks

O Ghdiri, W Jaafar, S Alfattani… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology is endorsed to enable applications in
domains such as Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks, and cellular networks …

AoI-minimal task assignment and trajectory optimization in multi-UAV-assisted IoT networks

C Liu, Y Guo, N Li, X Song - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates an unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-assisted Internet of Things
system, where multiple UAVs take off from a data center (DC), collect data from multiple …

Number and operation time minimization for multi-UAV-enabled data collection system with time windows

S Shen, K Yang, K Wang, G Zhang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-enabled data
collection system in Internet of Things (IoT) networks with time windows, where multiple …