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 …

Next-generation wireless networks are expected to be highly heterogeneous, multilayered,
with embedded intelligence at both the core and edge of the network. In such a context …

In fifth generation (5G) and beyond Internet of Things (IoT), it becomes increasingly
important to serve a massive number of IoT devices outside the coverage of terrestrial …

The challenge of wildfire management and detection is recently gaining increased attention
due to the increased severity and frequency of wildfires worldwide. Popular fire detection …

In this paper, we propose and study an energy-efficient trajectory optimization scheme for
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In such networks …

In this letter, we propose a task offloading framework for UAV-enabled MEC networks, where
all smart mobile devices are scattered randomly following an arbitrary distribution. By …

One of the main challenges slowing the deployment of airborne base stations (BSs) using
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is the limited on-board energy and flight time. One …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently received a significant interest to assist
terrestrial wireless networks thanks to their strong line-of-sight links and flexible/instant …

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 …

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used to extend the Internet of
things (IoT) framework owing to their vast applications, monitoring and surveillance …