A Survey on the Design Aspects and Opportunities in Age-Aware UAV-Aided Data Collection for Sensor Networks and Internet of Things Applications

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.

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Oluwatosin Amodu
Rosdiadee Nordin
Chedia Jarray
Umar Bukar
Raja Raja Mahmood
Mohamed Othman

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.

Publication date
2023-04-11
Journal / proceedings
Drones
Publisher
MDPI AG
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
260
DOI
10.3390/drones7040260

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Oluwatosin Amodu; Rosdiadee Nordin; Chedia Jarray; Umar Bukar; Raja Raja Mahmood; Mohamed Othman. 2023-04-11. A Survey on the Design Aspects and Opportunities in Age-Aware UAV-Aided Data Collection for Sensor Networks and Internet of Things Applications. Drones. 260. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones7040260

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Oluwatosin Amodu: Department of Electrical, Electronics & Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi 43600, Selangor, Malaysia; Information and Communication Engineering Department, Elizade University, P.M.B. 002, Ilara-Mokin 340271, Nigeria
Rosdiadee Nordin: Department of Electrical, Electronics & Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi 43600, Selangor, Malaysia
Chedia Jarray: Become: Technology, Science, AI & Automation Lab, 63 Tolbiac Street, 75013 Paris, France
Umar Bukar: Centre for Intelligent Cloud Computing (CICC), Faculty of Information Science & Technology, Multimedia University, Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama, Bukit Beruang 75450, Melaka, Malaysia; Department of Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science Unit, Taraba State University (TSU), ATC, Jalingo 660213, Nigeria
Raja Raja Mahmood: Department of Communication Technology and Network, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
Mohamed Othman: Department of Communication Technology and Network, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia; Laboratory of Computational Sciences and Mathematical Physics, Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
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2504-446X

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