The emerging unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing an increasing role in military,
public, and civil applications. Very recently, 3GPP has approved a study item to facilitate …

Abstract A mobile Wireless Sensor Network (mWSN) is composed of a large number of tiny,
inexpensive resource-constrained sensors scattered in the field of interest, with the sink …

Water supply systems are dynamic in nature, owing to the effect of climate change and
consumer demand uncertainties. The operation of such a system must be managed …

The motivation for writing this book came from our previous research works on sensor
coverage. They received a large number of citations and this number grows rapidly each …

This paper proposes a sensor node activation method using the nature-inspired algorithm
(NIA) for the target coverage problem. The NIAs have been used to solve various …

This paper presents a two-stage hierarchical location problem for systems where the lower
level facilities act as the first points contact for the customers while the upper level facilities …

In this chapter, we first study the energy efficiency maximization problem when the UAV
serve as an aerial user in Sect. 4.1, and then discuss the task completion time minimization …

Previously, we consider that the state of a sensor covering targets is in binary mode: success
(cover the targets) or fail (cannot cover the targets). However in the real world, a sensor …