Communication and networking of UAV-based systems: Classification and associated architectures

I Jawhar, N Mohamed, J Al-Jaroodi, DP Agrawal… - Journal of Network and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Many advancements have been taking place in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology
lately. This is leading towards the design and development of UAVs with various sizes that …

Energy-efficient cluster-based dynamic routes adjustment approach for wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks

J Wang, J Cao, S Ji, JH Park - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2017 - Springer
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), sensor nodes near static sink will have more traffic load
to forward and the network lifetime will get largely reduced. This problem is referred to as the …

Multi-mobile agent itinerary planning algorithms for data gathering in wireless sensor networks: A review paper

HQ Qadori, ZA Zulkarnain, ZM Hanapi… - International …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently, wireless sensor networks have employed the concept of mobile agent to reduce
energy consumption and obtain effective data gathering. Typically, in data gathering based …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing the effects of UAV mobility patterns on data collection in wireless sensor networks

S Rashed, M Soyturk - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Sensor nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can be dispersed over a remote sensing
area (eg, the regions that are hardly accessed by human beings). In such kinds of networks …

C-DTB-CHR: centralized density-and threshold-based cluster head replacement protocols for wireless sensor networks

KA Darabkh, WS Al-Rawashdeh, RT Al-Zubi… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Advances introduced to electronics and electromagnetics leverage the production of low-
cost and small wireless sensors. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of large amount …

An optimization method to improve the performance of unmanned aerial vehicle wireless sensor networks

HR Cao, Z Yang, XJ Yue… - International Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Wireless sensor networks have made great progress in recent years in every aspect of our
life. To extend their range of application and provide a further effective option for remote …

Healing multimodal confident information coverage holes in NB-IoT-enabled networks

X Deng, Z Tang, L Yi, LT Yang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) evolving from the conventional wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
with more smart sensors has attracted significant attention. As one of the most crucial metrics …

The networked sensory landscape: Capturing and experiencing ecological change across scales

B Mayton, G Dublon, S Russell, EF Lynch… - …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What role will ubiquitous sensing play in our understanding and experience of ecology in
the future? What opportunities are created by weaving a continuously sampling …

Q-charge: A quadcopter-based wireless charging platform for large-scale sensing applications

J Chen, S Li, S Chen, S He, Z Shi - IEEE Network, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless charging technologies have attracted much attention from both academia and
industry due to their great potential of freeing devices from wires and batteries, becoming …

A honeycomb structure based data gathering scheme with a mobile sink for wireless sensor networks

C Zhu, G Han, H Zhang - Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, 2017 - Springer
With the widespread use of wireless sensor networks, more and more applications require
energy efficient and low packet loss rate data collection methods. Recently, the concept of …