UAVs for Smart Cities: Protocols, Applications, and Challenges
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information and Communications Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 20242
Special Issue Editors
Interests: unmanned aerial vehicles; smart cities; Internet of things; wireless communications; intelligent transportation systems; artificial intelligence; vehicle routing problems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are taking different forms, such as helicopters, quadcopters, fixed-wing planes, blimps, and balloons. They have gained a lot of popularity among hobbyists, governments, and industry alike thanks to their mobility, autonomous operation, low acquisition and maintenance cost, and ease of deployment even in remote locations.
UAVs have rapidly developed, and more than ever before, they play a key role in a panoply of smart city applications and services that span photography, real-time monitoring, disaster relief and management, security and surveillance, civil infrastructure inspection, and delivery of goods, to name a few. Some of these applications may require gathering and processing a tremendous amount of data, which could be challenging given the resource-constrained nature of these flying units and may necessitate offloading some of the processing. Moreover, for some of the applications, high-precision positioning and navigation of the UAVs is crucial, which may require solving complex UAV routing problems. Given the unprecedented rate at which this technology is being adopted, there is an urgent need to address these challenges.
This Special Issue aims to share the progress and efforts being made by researchers, practitioners, and regulators towards the information science and technology, data, and communication support for the use of UAVs in smart city applications. This call solicits novel concepts that are currently being pursued or transformative ideas envisioned for the future of UAVs and smart cities. Original, high-quality, unpublished submissions that discuss research, development, and evaluation strategies that support UAVs and their applications are encouraged within the following scope or related areas.
- Positioning and path optimization problems
- Collision avoidance and swarming challenges
- Data delivery, routing, and collection in flying ad hoc networks (FANET)
- Mobile Internet of Things and Internet of Drones
- Targets localization using UAVs
- Information and communication reliability in UAVs
- Big data processing
- Fog/Edge computing and UAVs
- Onboard data storage and transmission
- Machine learning and AI for UAVs
- UAV-based IoT applications and services
- Mission planning and dynamic real-time re-tasking of UAV swarms
- UAV experimental results and deployment scenarios
- Data Security and privacy in UAVs
- Blockchain for UAVs
Dr. Hakim Ghazzai
Dr. Mohamed Grissa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- unmanned aerial vehicles
- smart cities
- Internet of things
- information and communication technology
- security
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