In this paper, we consider a scenario where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collects data
from a set of sensors on a straight line. The UAV can either cruise or hover while …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication has emerged as an appealing
technology for efficient data collection in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This paper …

In this article, we investigate the energy minimization problem of an unmanned-aerial-
vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection sensor network. We jointly optimize the trajectory of …

Energy consumption is one of the important design aspect for data collection in wireless
sensor networks (WSNs). This paper studies data collection from a set of sensor nodes …

In wireless sensor networks, utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data
collector for the sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data collection is a promising research direction that can be
applied to many practical scenarios. Due to the limited energy of sensors in wireless sensor …

Unnamed aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have attracted growing interest in the last few
years for multiple applications; thanks to their advantages in terms of mobility, easy …

Due to the flexibility and agility, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising way for
gathering data generated by wireless sensor networks. However, the limited battery capacity …

Recently, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been widely adopted to make efficient use
of network resources in such areas as internet of things (IoT), sensor networks and three …

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network,
where a UAV is dispatched to collect the sensed data from distributed sensor nodes (SNs) …