UAV-Assisted Internet of Things
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 16228
Special Issue Editors
Interests: IoT networks; UAV networks; social networks; approximation algorithm
Interests: IoT networks and mobile computing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Traditional Internet of Things (IoT) networks have limited coverage areas due to economical deployment cost constraints, and may break down due to the disfunction of a few key IoT devices. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can significantly extend the coverage of IoT networks and help relay information among different components of a broken IoT network. UAV-assisted IoT networks are perfect for environmental monitoring, disaster area monitoring, battlefield monitoring, intelligent transportation, power line inspection, emergent communication networking, etc. UAV-assisted IoT networks have some unique characteristics, such as relative large sensing and communication ranges due to far less obstacles for UAVs in the air, limited energy, and computing capacity due to limited payloads of most commercial UAVs, as well as heterogeneous sensing/computing/energy resources of different UAVs.
This Special Issue focuses on latest research solutions to efficient sensing, data collections, data transmissions, and computing in UAV-assisted IoT networks, such as cooperative flying trajectory scheduling of multiple UAVs, fast and dynamic UAV networking, coordination between monitoring UAVs and communication UAVs, the charging scheduling of UAVs, simultaneous sensing and charging, flying edge computing, etc.
Papers are solicited in areas related to these topics, including, but not limited to, the following:
- The path scheduling of multiple UAVs for mobile sensing and data collection;
- Efficient, dynamic, robust, and/or fair UAV networking;
- Energy and sensing resource management of UAVs;
- Real-time (edge) computing scheduling in UAV-assisted networks;
- Spectrum management in UAV-assisted networks.
Dr. Wenzheng Xu
Prof. Dr. Tang Liu
Prof. Dr. Weifa Liang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Internet of Things
- UAVs
- mobile sensing
- mobile data collection
- UAV networking
- UAV edge computing