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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are powerful Internet-of-Things components to provide sensing and communications in the air due to their advantages in mobility and flexibility. As aerial users, UAVs are envisioned to support various sensing…
Suitably equipped with cameras and sensors, uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be instrumental for wildfire prediction, tracking, and monitoring, provided that uninterrupted connectivity can be guaranteed even if some of the ground access…
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Large-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) failures can split an unmanned aerial vehicle swarm network into disconnected sub-networks, making decentralized recovery both urgent and difficult. Centralized recovery methods depend on global…
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