Drone Deployment Algorithms for Effective Communication Establishment in Disaster Affected Areas
, Johns Thomas †and Kavum Muriyil Balachandran Shibu Kumar *,†
Round 1
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Reviewer 2 Report
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read “Drone Deployment Algorithms for Effective CommunicationEstablishment in Disaster Affected Areas”, I have the following comments:
· For drones (particle swarms), PSO is a widely used algorithm; the authors need to justify why the current algorithm is needed and how it compares to established algorithms such as PSO?
· Recently there have been many studies on drone swarm optimization. The authors should compare their proposed model against these and justify why the selected method is superior or yield better results. Examples include
o https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9385994
o https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/18/10207
o https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-0360-0_4
· The implication should be listed in a line in abstract
· For the sake of consistency, the authors should consider replacing UAVs with drones or vice versa. These two are used interchangeably in title and body
· References must be provided for claims in line 50 to the end of the introduction section.
· Please list the objectives of the study in a numbered format.
· Add a method flowchart in the method section. This will help the readers easily understand the process.
· Please explain both sub-parts of Fig 18.
· A detailed and critical discussion section is needed in the paper. In this section, the authors must compare their findings with the published literature and explain their innovations, novelty, and performance compared to established studies. A table can be added to this section where the findings are compared with existing works. In addition, the key findings of the paper should be discussed in this section.
· Please use abbreviations only once. Remove the full form of the UAVs in conclusion.
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Reviewer 3 Report
The authors developed algorithm to identify the minimum number of drones in a disaster area however i have the following comments:-
1- the abstract is still not clear enough what is the summary of your practical experiment?
2- the conclusion is too long i suggest to add a new Section regards future work and challenges
3- the related work is not up to dated there is a lot of recent papers related to drone emergency communications such as
a- Y. Chen and W. Cheng, "Performance Analysis of RIS-equipped-UAV Based Emergency Wireless Communications," ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2022, pp. 255-260, doi: 10.1109/ICC45855.2022.9839157.
b- E. M. Mohamed, S. Hashima and K. Hatano, "Energy Aware Multiarmed Bandit for Millimeter Wave-Based UAV Mounted RIS Networks," in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1293-1297, June 2022, doi:
4- mentioning only two disasters in the introduction section is not enough kindly consider rewriting the introduction with more motivated sentences
5- the contribution of this paper is still unclear. Also the authors need to clarify why they did not use AI based algorithm
6- The proposed method discussion is not clear. It needs more clarification
7- simulation results need more clarification and comparison with previous works
8- some typos errors
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
I'm sorry for my mistakes. I have reviewed the authors' response, which has been completely revised according to the comments, and the article can be considered for publication.
Reviewer 2 Report
Thank you for addressing my comments
Reviewer 3 Report
the authors correctly reflected my comments i recommend paper publication
