UAV-assisted data collection for internet of things: A survey

Z Wei, M Zhu, N Zhang, L Wang, Y Zou… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A survey of wireless networks for future aerial communications (FACOM)

A Baltaci, E Dinc, M Ozger, A Alabbasi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrification turned over a new leaf in aviation by introducing new types of aerial vehicles
along with new means of transportation. Addressing a plethora of use cases, drones are …

Intelligent ubiquitous network accessibility for wireless-powered MEC in UAV-assisted B5G

J Wang, C Jin, Q Tang, NN Xiong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing the ubiquitous network accessibility is the key goal for 5G and Beyond 5G (B5G)
networks. As the number of devices and data increase, ensuring the Quality of Service (QoS) …

Covertness and timeliness of data collection in UAV-aided wireless-powered IoT

X Lu, W Yang, S Yan, Z Li… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we aim to maximize the timeliness of data collection subject to a covertness
constraint in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where …

A two-stage strategy for UAV-enabled wireless power transfer in unknown environments

J Shi, P Cong, L Zhao, X Wang, S Wan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the outstanding merits such as mobility, high maneuverability, and flexibility,
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are viable mobile power transmitters that can be rapidly …

LSTM-characterized deep reinforcement learning for continuous flight control and resource allocation in UAV-assisted sensor network

K Li, W Ni, F Dressler - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be employed to collect sensory data in remote
wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Due to UAV's maneuvering, scheduling a sensor device …

SanJeeVni: Secure UAV-envisioned massive vaccine distribution for COVID-19 underlying 6G network

A Verma, P Bhattacharya, D Saraswat… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are deployed in Novel Coronavirus Disease-
2019 (COVID-19) vaccine distribution process. To address issues of fake vaccine …

Unmanned-aerial-vehicle-assisted wireless networks: Advancements, challenges, and solutions

M Dai, N Huang, Y Wu, J Gao… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid development of communication and computing techniques enables unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) to provide reliable and cost-effective wireless communication and …

Joint 3-D trajectory and resource optimization in multi-UAV-enabled IoT networks with wireless power transfer

W Luo, Y Shen, B Yang, S Wang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies the data collection problem in an Internet-of-Things (IoT) network with
multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) where UAVs first power multiple IoT devices by …

A UAV-assisted data collection for wireless sensor networks: Autonomous navigation and scheduling

O Bouhamed, H Ghazzai, H Besbes, Y Massoud - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are playing a vital and sustainable role in
many verticals touching different aspects of our lives including civil, public, and military …