Mobile elements trajectory optimization is one of the most important and efficient ways to
enhance the performance of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In the last 15 years …

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) attracted significant popularity in both military
and civilian domains for various applications and services. Moreover, UAV-aided wireless …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been considered as a promising approach for
providing additional computation capability and extensive coverage to ground mobile …

The powerful computing and storage capability of cloud computing can inject new vitality
into wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and have motivated a series of new applications …

In this paper, we investigate the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided simultaneous uplink
and downlink transmission networks, where one UAV acting as a disseminator is connected …

In a secure backscatter communication system, an unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) operates
both as a source of radio frequency (RF) signals and an information collector. Batteryless …

In this article, we propose a two-tier communication strategy to facilitate data collection in
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled massive Internet of Things (IoT) systems through …

In this paper, we propose an efficient and energy-saving distributed network architecture
based on clustering stratification to solve the information security problem of unmanned …

With the advance of UAV-related technologies, UAV-assisted wireless communications such
as UAV-assisted coverage extension, UAV-assisted relaying and UAV-assisted data …

Using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to collect data from wireless sensor networks
deployed in the field, one of the key tasks is to plan the path for the collection so as to …