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Current research on robust trajectory planning for autonomous agents aims to mitigate uncertainties arising from disturbances and modeling errors while ensuring guaranteed safety. Existing methods primarily utilize stochastic optimal…
Efficient routing is one of the key challenges of wireless networking for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) due to dynamically changing channel and network topology characteristics. Various well known mobile-ad-hoc routing protocols, such…
Energy efficiency is a crucial issue for maritime communications, due to the limitation of geographically available base station sites. Different from previous studies, we promote the energy efficiency by exploiting the specific…
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This study introduces a connective model of routing -- local path planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) time efficient maneuver in long-range operations. Assuming the vehicle operating in a turbulent underwater environment, the…
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Opportunistic computing is a paradigm for completely self-organised pervasive networks. Instead of relying only on fixed infrastructures as the cloud, users' devices act as service providers for each other. They use pairwise contacts to…
Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs) may lack continuous network connectivity. Routing in DTNs is thus a challenge since it must handle network partitioning, long delays, and dynamic topology. Meanwhile, routing protocols of the…
Pervasive networks formed by users' mobile devices have the potential to exploit a rich set of distributed service components that can be composed to provide each user with a multitude of application level services. However, in many…
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