Applications of wireless sensor networks: an up-to-date survey

D Kandris, C Nakas, D Vomvas, G Koulouras - Applied system innovation, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wireless Sensor Networks are considered to be among the most rapidly evolving
technological domains thanks to the numerous benefits that their usage provides. As a …

Accessing from the sky: A tutorial on UAV communications for 5G and beyond

Y Zeng, Q Wu, R Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found numerous applications and are expected to
bring fertile business opportunities in the next decade. Among various enabling …

Learning collaborative policies to solve np-hard routing problems

M Kim, J Park - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) frameworks have shown potential for solving
NP-hard routing problems such as the traveling salesman problem (TSP) without problem …

Trajectory design for completion time minimization in UAV-enabled multicasting

Y Zeng, X Xu, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled multicasting system, where a
UAV is dispatched to disseminate a common file to a set of ground terminals (GTs). We aim …

UAV trajectory optimization for time-constrained data collection in UAV-enabled environmental monitoring systems

K Liu, J Zheng - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) trajectory planning problem in a UAV-
enabled environmental monitoring system and considers a typical data collection scenario …

UAV trajectory planning for AoI-minimal data collection in UAV-aided IoT networks by transformer

B Zhu, E Bedeer, HH Nguyen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted
increasing attention. By taking into account age-of-information (AoI), we investigate the …

Combining solar energy harvesting with wireless charging for hybrid wireless sensor networks

C Wang, J Li, Y Yang, F Ye - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The application of wireless charging technology in traditional battery-powered wireless
sensor networks (WSNs) grows rapidly recently. Although previous studies indicate that the …

From wireless sensor networks towards cyber physical systems

FJ Wu, YF Kao, YC Tseng - Pervasive and Mobile computing, 2011 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, a lot of research activities have been dedicated to the fields of
mobile ad hoc network (MANET) and wireless sensor networks (WSN). More recently, the …

Reinforcement learning-based collision avoidance and optimal trajectory planning in UAV communication networks

YH Hsu, RH Gau - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning approach of collision avoidance and
investigate optimal trajectory planning for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication …

Mobile robots in wireless sensor networks: A survey on tasks

H Huang, AV Savkin, M Ding, C Huang - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide a virtual layer where the information about the
physical world can be accessed by computational systems. Mobile robots have long been …