UAV-Based Wireless Sensor Networks Systems: Research, Technologies, and Applications

The integration of airborne and terrestrial wireless communications is a new emerging paradigm that is gaining interest from academia and industry due to the need for potential increase of coverage, capacity, delay, and so on. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), acting as aerial base stations (ABS), are considered as the key enabling technology for such an integration scenario. Depending on their altitude, UAVs can be classified into high-altitude platforms (HAPs) and low-altitude platforms (LAPs). Networked UAVs are used in various fronts of our day to day life. By fitting them in a cellular connected UAV or UAV assisted communication-based architecture, UAVs can be used in wide variety of applications. Apart from being used as am ABS and express cargo delivery platform, which is revolutionizing present-day technology, various other applications include surveillance, remote sensing, search and rescue, aerial photography, crop surveys, on-demand communications, etc. In these scenarios, the main role of UAVs is to act as data collectors for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The aim of this Special Issue is to attract original and unpublished research contributions advancing the frontiers on the use of UAVs for the development of vertical heterogeneous WSNs and related research, technologies, and applications.

Dr. Maurizio Magarini
Dr. Sudheesh Puthenveettil Gopi
Guest Editors

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