Thanks to the advantages of flexible deployment and high mobility, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) have been widely applied in the areas of disaster management, agricultural …

Networked Tethered Flying Platforms (NTFPs) have gained growing interest in recent years
due to their versatility and cost-efficiency. These aerial platforms are linked to ground …

One of the crucial challenges in networked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is to
configure them to serve as aerial base stations (BSs) for collecting data from distributed …

This work examines a UAV-enabled surveillance mission over multiple restricted regions
and aims to determine the optimal UAV trajectory that minimizes the mission completion …

Abstract “Natural disasters threaten human life, Earth's ecosystems, and countries'
economies. In the last two decades, the number and severity of natural disasters has …

Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are able to accelerate the large area data
collection procedure by using a parallel manner. Due to the UAV flying ability differentiation …

In this paper, we consider a UAV-aided data collection network where the UAV provides
communication service for sensor nodes (SNs) which are distributed randomly on the …

Utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations is a new and promising
technology that enables the connectivity of a large volume of devices such as sensors and …

The next-generation (6G) networks promise to provide extended 5G capabilities with
enhanced performance at high data rates, low latency, low energy consumption, and rapid …