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A cloud of UAVs for the Delivery of a Sink As A Service to Terrestrial WSNs

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Soumaya Bel Hadj,

Noureddine Boudriga,

Antoine BagulaAuthors Info & Claims

MoMM '16: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multi Media

Pages 317 - 326

https://doi.org/10.1145/3007120.3007138

Published: 28 November 2016 Publication History

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One of the primary tasks of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is the collection of data from a field of interest. However, in practice, maintaining a total connectivity between sensors is not always possible, and sensors may be scattered along the sensing area, forming a set of isolated cluster of nodes that are unable to deliver the collected data. In this paper, we provide a three-layer based cloud architecture, showing the use of a network of drone quadcopters for the delivery of a Sink As A Service to terrestrial mobile sensor nodes. The set of quadcopters are in charge of coordinating their movement to collect data from terrestrial cluster heads (local data collectors) and cooperate together to relay these data to the nearest base station. As the used number of terrestrial collectors (i.e., clusters heads) has a great impact on the data delivery delay and also on the energy consumption of the quadcopters, we develop an analytical model that allows determining the optimal number of terrestrial clusters of sensors. A numerical analysis is conducted to assess the variation of the optimal values of clusters' width, delivery delay, and consumer energy, with respect to the quadcopters speed, the network throughput, and the total number of sensors.

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Zaidi SAtiquzzaman MCalafate C(2020)Internet of Flying Things (IoFT): A surveyComputer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2020.10.023Online publication date: Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2020.10.023
McCoy JRawat D(2019)Software-Defined Networking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicular Networking and Security: A SurveyElectronics10.3390/electronics81214688:12(1468)Online publication date: 3-Dec-2019
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Chou CYen L(2017)Autonomous Deployment of UAVs as Access Points to Serve Wireless Terminals2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall)10.1109/VTCFall.2017.8288291(1-5)Online publication date: Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCFall.2017.8288291

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