A survey of unmanned aerial sensing solutions in precision agriculture

A Mukherjee, S Misra, NS Raghuwanshi - Journal of Network and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We attribute the gain in popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Platforms and
Systems (UAS) to its ease of operation, versatility, and risk-free piloting. The primary UAV …

Greening internet of things for greener and smarter cities: a survey and future prospects

SH Alsamhi, O Ma, MS Ansari, Q Meng - Telecommunication Systems, 2019 - Springer
Tremendous technological developments in the field of internet of things (IoT) have changed
the way we live and work. Although the numerous advantages of IoT are enriching our …

Survey on collaborative smart drones and internet of things for improving smartness of smart cities

SH Alsamhi, O Ma, MS Ansari, FA Almalki - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart cities contain intelligent things which can intelligently automatically and
collaboratively enhance life quality, save people's lives, and act a sustainable resource …

Applications of UAVs in civil infrastructure

WW Greenwood, JP Lynch, D Zekkos - Journal of infrastructure …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, have become popular tools for practitioners
and researchers alike. Recent years have seen a significant increase in UAV uses for many …

Energy-efficient UAV routing for wireless sensor networks

J Baek, SI Han, Y Han - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

When UAV swarm meets edge-cloud computing: The QoS perspective

W Chen, B Liu, H Huang, S Guo, Z Zheng - IEEE Network, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a hybrid computing model, UAV-Edge-Cloud, bringing edge/cloud
computing and UAV swarm together to achieve high quality of service (QoS) guarantees …

Resource allocation for a UAV-enabled mobile-edge computing system: Computation efficiency maximization

X Zhang, Y Zhong, P Liu, F Zhou, Y Wang - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-efficient computation is important in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems.
However, the computation efficiency problem in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled …

PSO-based dynamic UAV positioning algorithm for sensing information acquisition in wireless sensor networks

HJ Na, SJ Yoo - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a dynamic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) positioning method to
maximize the value of the sensor data information acquired from multiple UAVs in wireless …

UAV positioning and power control for two-way wireless relaying

L Li, TH Chang, S Cai - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers an unmanned-aerial-vehicle-enabled (UAV-enabled) wireless network
where a relay UAV is used for two-way communications between a ground base station (BS) …

Power control and trajectory planning based interference management for UAV-assisted wireless sensor networks

S Zhang, S Shi, S Gu, X Gu - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless sensor networks are generally used to assist in collecting and transmitting data
where humans cannot directly explore. But in a scenario with complex terrestrial …