IoT Sensing and Networking with UAVs

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become the subject of growing research. UAVs have unique characteristics that make them suitable for a variety of applications, including human and environmental monitoring, monitoring of emergency and disaster events, coverage issues, and many more.

The use of internet of things (IoT) devices and UAVs is essential for facilitating novel value-added services and supporting various human activities. Both types of devices work together and create several integration challenges, which researchers must investigate and analyze before offering targeted solutions at different protocol stack levels. Moreover, the application of novel paradigms, such as software-defined networking (SDN), in UAV networks is intriguing because it demonstrates the latest research horizons that take advantage of virtualization and artificial intelligence (AI) methods.

This Special Issue solicits novel work in terms of solutions and techniques for UAV networks in the IoT context. We look forward to creating a forum in which researchers in the domain of UAV networks can share their results, techniques, surveys, analyses, and discussions of the problems of UAV networks in the IoT context.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include topics that address the fields related to UAV networks, including the following:

• UAV networking;
• Energy management in UAV and IoT;
• UAV and IoT sensing;
• UAV routing protocols;
• UAV mobility models;
• SDN for UAV and IoT networking;
• NFV paradigm for UAV and IoT;
• UAV architectures and platforms;
• UAV applications;
• UAV path-planning and trajectory studies;
• UAV coordination problems;
• AI and UAV;
• UAV security and privacy;
• Security aspects of UAV and IoT integration.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Electronics. 

Dr. Dimitris Kanellopoulos
Dr. Changsheng You
Dr. Hazim Shakhatreh
Guest Editors

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• UAV networking
• energy management in UAV and IoT
• UAV and IoT sensing
• UAV routing protocols
• UAV mobility models
• SDN for UAV and IoT networking
• NFV paradigm for UAV and IoT
• UAV architectures and platforms
• UAV applications
• UAV path-planning and trajectory studies
• UAV coordination problems
• AI and UAV
• UAV security and privacy
• security aspects of UAV and IoT integration