Wireless sensor networks and multi-UAV systems for natural disaster management

M Erdelj, M Król, E Natalizio - Computer Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
This work identifies the role of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAV) in the context of natural disaster management. Main applications of systems …

A survey on network methodologies for real-time analytics of massive IoT data and open research issues

S Verma, Y Kawamoto, ZM Fadlullah… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of connected
devices is growing at an exponential rate, which is contributing to ever-increasing, massive …

Joint trajectory and power optimization for UAV relay networks

S Zhang, H Zhang, Q He, K Bian… - IEEE Communications …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay network, where the UAV
works as an amplify-and-forward relay. We optimize the trajectory of UAV, the transmit power …

Flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs): A review of communication architectures, and routing protocols

MA Khan, A Safi, IM Qureshi… - 2017 First international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With recent technological progress in the field of electronics, sensors and communication
systems, the production of small UAVs (Unmanned Air Vehicles) became possible, which …

Antenna diagnostics and characterization using unmanned aerial vehicles

M García-Fernández, YÁ López, A Arboleya… - IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a compact, low-cost unmanned aerial system for antenna
measurement. The proposed system overcomes existing limitations in terms of unmanned …

Secure communications in unmanned aerial vehicle network

S He, Q Wu, J Liu, W Hu, B Qin, YN Li - Information Security Practice and …, 2017 - Springer
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network has attracted much attention in industry and
academia. However, a UAV as a vital information carrier and data relay platform is prone to …

Robots in crisis management: A survey

I Kostavelis, A Gasteratos - Information Systems for Crisis Response and …, 2017 - Springer
Robots are flexible intelligent machines designed to replace human operators in dangerous,
dirty, and dull tasks. Therefore, an apparent application of robotics is to provide assistance in …

A survey of wireless sensor network security in the context of Internet of Things

B Mostefa, G Abdelkader - 2017 4th International Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Today, the common vision of smart components is usually based on the concept of the
Internet of Things (IoT). Intelligent infrastructures combine sensor networks, network …

Fast networking for disaster recovery

J Xu, K Ota, M Dong - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Content-Centric Networking (CCN) is now a research hotspot aiming at building up a new
network architecture compared with the traditional IP-based, host-centric one. In this paper …

Joint rate maximization of downlink and uplink in multiuser MIMO SWIPT systems

C Qin, W Ni, H Tian, RP Liu - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Beamforming has the potential to improve the efficiency of simultaneous wireless
information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems. Existing beamforming techniques have …