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The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) supports ocean sensing and offshore monitoring but requires coordinated mobility and energy-aware communication to sustain long-term operation. This letter proposes a multi-AUV framework that jointly…

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm characterized by a network of embedded sensors and services. These sensors are incorporated to collect various information, track physical conditions, e.g., waste bins' status, and exchange data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Mohammadhossein Ghahramani , Mengchu Zhou , Anna Molter , Francesco Pilla

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) has been deemed a promising paradigm to provide ubiquitous communication and computing services for the Internet of Things (IoT). Besides, by intelligently reflecting the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Xintong Qin , Zhengyu Song , Tianwei Hou , Wenjuan Yu , Jun Wang , Xin Sun

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted Internet-of-Things (IoT) system in a sophisticated three-dimensional (3D) environment, where the UAV's trajectory is optimized to efficiently collect data from multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yang Wang , Zhen Gao , Jun Zhang , Xianbin Cao , Dezhi Zheng , Yue Gao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to greatly aid Internet of Things (IoT) networks in mission-critical data collection, thanks to their flexibility and cost-effectiveness. However, challenges arise due to the UAV's limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Mengjie Yi , Xijun Wang , Juan Liu , Yan Zhang , Ronghui Hou

Establishing end-to-end connectivity of Internet of Things (IoT) network with the core for collecting sensing data from remote and hard-to-reach terrains is a challenging task. In this article, we analyze the performance of an IoT network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Pranay Bhardwaj , Vedant Bansal , Nikhil Biyani , Shiv Shukla , S. M. Zafaruddin

Efficient data processing and computation are essential for the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) to empower various applications, which yet can be significantly bottlenecked by the limited energy capacity and computation capability of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Xiao Tang , Hongrui Zhang , Ruonan Zhang , Deyun Zhou , Yan Zhang , Zhu Han

The low-altitude Internet of Things (IoT), supported by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), provides ground sensing networks with advanced real-time monitoring and data collection. To maximize data collection volume from distributed IoT nodes,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhenjia Xu , Xiaoling Zhang , Nan Qi , Guangxu Zhu , Xiaojie Li , Luliang Jia

This paper presents a wireless data collection framework that employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to efficiently gather data from distributed IoT sensors deployed in a large area. Our approach takes into account the non-zero…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Sivaram Krishnan , Mahyar Nemati , Seng W. Loke , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi

In this paper, a lifelong learning problem is studied for an Internet of Things (IoT) system. In the considered model, each IoT device aims to balance its information freshness and energy consumption tradeoff by controlling its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zhenzhen Gong , Qimei Cui , Christina Chaccour , Bo Zhou , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad

This paper presents a real-time control system for surface inspection using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The UAVs are coordinated in a specific formation to collect data of the inspecting objects. The communication platform for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Van Truong Hoang , Manh Duong Phung , Tran Hiep Dinh , Quang P. Ha

Internet of Intelligent Things (IoIT), an emerging field, combines the utility of Internet of Things (IoT) devices with the innovation of embedded AI algorithms. However, it does not come without challenges, and struggles regarding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Vadim Allayev , Mahbubur Rahman

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to meet the increasing demands and computing limitations of complex Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, implementing MEC in urban environments can be challenging due to factors…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Subhrajit Barick , Chetna Singhal

In many massive IoT communication scenarios, the IoT devices require coverage from dynamic units that can move close to the IoT devices and reduce the uplink energy consumption. A robust solution is to deploy a large number of UAVs (UAV…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Eslam Eldeeb , Mohammad Shehab , Hirley Alves

This letter studies the joint energy and signal-to-interference-plus-noise (SINR)-based coverage probability in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted radio frequency (RF)-powered Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The UAVs are spatially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Harris K. Armeniakos , Petros S. Bithas , Konstantinos Maliatsos , Athanasios G. Kanatas

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enabled Internet of things (IoT) systems have become an important part of future wireless communications. To achieve higher communication rate, the joint design of UAV trajectory and resource allocation is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Yingchao Jiao , Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Yinyu Wu , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Xinping Guan

With the recent advancement of technologies over the past year, IoT has become a paradigm in which devices communicate with each other and the cloud to achieve various applications in multidisciplinary fields. However, developing,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Rakesh Dhakshina Murthy , Mingming Liu

This paper investigates a full-duplex orthogonal-frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) based multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-enabled wireless-powered Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this paper, a swarm of UAVs is first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Han-Ting Ye , Xin Kang , Jingon Joung , Ying-Chang Liang

With the rapid development of connecting massive devices to the Internet, especially for remote areas without cellular network infrastructures, space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs) emerge and offload computation-intensive tasks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yali Chen , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Hongliang Zhang , Zhu Han

In this paper, a novel joint energy and age of information (AoI) optimization framework for IoT devices in a non-stationary environment is presented. In particular, IoT devices that are distributed in the real-world are required to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zhenzhen Gong , Omar Hashash , Yingze Wang , Qimei Cui , Wei Ni , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi