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Due to the limitations of sensor devices, including short transmission distance and constrained energy, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently deployed to assist these nodes in transmitting their data. The sensor nodes (SNs) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) or Internet of Things (IoT) networks periodically transmit their sensed data to UAVs to be relayed to the base station (BS). UAVs have been widely deployed in time-sensitive or real-time applications, such as in disaster areas, due to their ability to transmit data to the destination within a very short time. However, timely delivery of information by UAVs in WSN/IoT networks can be very complex due to various technical challenges, such as flight and trajectory control, as well as considerations of the scheduling of UAVs and SNs. Recently, the Age of Information (AoI), a metric used to measure the degree of freshness of information collected in data-gathering applications, has gained much attention…Read more
About Author
Chedia Jarray obtained her B.Sc. degree in Network and Communications Engineering from the National Engineering School of Gabes, University of Gabes, Tunisia, in 2013. She completed her Ph.D. at the same institution and is presently employed as an R&D researcher at the Become Laboratory. Her research focuses on various areas including sensor networks, machine-type communications, device-to-device communication, stochastic geometry, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and TeraHertz communications.