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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

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless sensor network, in which one UAV flies in the sky to collect the data transmitted from a set of ground nodes (GNs) via distributed beamforming. We consider two scenarios…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Tianxin Feng , Lifeng Xie , Jianping Yao , Jie Xu

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) networks has created an urgent need for sustainable energy solutions, particularly for the battery-constrained spatially distributed IoT nodes. While low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Chuang Zhang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Qingqing Wu , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao , Tony Q. S. Quek

This article explores the use of network-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications as a compelling solution to achieve high-rate information transmission and support ultra-reliable UAV remote command and control. We first…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Haichao Wang , Jinlong Wang , Jin Chen , Yuping Gong , Guoru Ding

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

Fog computing is an emerging distributed computing model for the Internet of Things (IoT). It extends computing and caching functions to the edge of wireless networks. Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide adequate support for fog…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Shuaijun Liu , Jiaying Yin , Zishu Zeng , Jingjin Wu

In this work, we propose an adaptive system design for an Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring network with latency and reliability requirements, where IoT devices generate time-critical and event-triggered bursty traffic, and an unmanned…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Nilupuli Senadhira , Salman Durrani , Sheeraz A. Alvi , Nan Yang , Xiangyun Zhou

In this paper, we consider a scenario where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collects data from a set of sensors on a straight line. The UAV can either cruise or hover while communicating with the sensors. The objective is to minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Jie Gong , Tsung-Hui Chang , Chao Shen , Xiang Chen

Low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become integral enablers for the Internet of Things (IoT) by offering enhanced coverage, improved connectivity and access to remote areas. A critical challenge limiting their operational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Chengzhen Li , Likun Zhang , Chuang Zhang , Jiahui Li , Changyuan Zhao , Ruichen Zhang , Geng Sun

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to overcome the deployment constraint of Internet of Things (IoT) in remote or rural area. Wirelessly powered communications (WPC) can address the battery limitation of IoT devices through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yalin Liu , Hong-Ning Dai , Qubeijian Wang , Muhammad Imran , Nadra Guizani

Due to the wide application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as relays to establish Disaster Response Networks (DRNs), an effective model of energy harvesting (EH) and energy consumption for the UAV-aided Disaster Response Network (DRN)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Hossein Mohammadi Firouzjaei , Javad Zeraatkar Moghaddam , Mehrdad Ardebilipour

The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, is rapidly growing. In particular, with their inherent attributes such as mobility, flexibility, and adaptive altitude, UAVs admit several key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Young-Han Nam , Merouane Debbah

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

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wake-up radio (WuR)-enabled internet of things (IoT) networks, UAVs can instantly activate the main radios (MRs) of the sensor nodes (SNs) with a wake-up call (WuC) for efficient data collection in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Syed Luqman Shah , Ziaul Haq Abbas , Ghulam Abbas , Nurul Huda Mahmood

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been proposed as a promising technology to collect data from IoT devices and relay it to the network. In this work, we are interested in scenarios where the data is updated periodically, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye , El Houcine Bergou , Mounir Ghogho , Hajar El Hammouti

Marine Internet of Things (IoT) systems have grown substantially with the development of non-terrestrial networks (NTN) via aerial and space vehicles in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G), thereby assisting environment protection, military…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Sooyeob Jung , Seongah Jeong , Jinkyu Kang , Joonhyuk Kang

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

Future wireless networks are envisioned to support both sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) services. However, conventional integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks may not be suitable due to the ignorance of diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wenhao Zhuang , Xinyu He , Yuyi Mao , Juan Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel energy-efficient data collection and wireless power transfer (WPT) framework for internet of things (IoT) applications, via a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) unmanned aerial vehicle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Jiancao Hou , Zhaohui Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

The development of wireless power transfer (WPT) and Internet of Things (IoT) offers significant potential but faces challenges such as limited energy supply, dynamic environmental changes, and unstable transmission links. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wen Zhang , Aimin Wang , Geng Sun , Jiahui Li , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Dusit Niyato