UAV Based Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks

• Published in: Wireless personal communications Vol. 106; no. 4; pp. 1801 - 1811
• Main Authors: Ali, Zain Anwar, Masroor, Suhaib, Aamir, Muhammad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 30.06.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Communications Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Data processing; Engineering; Network control; Networks; Remote sensors; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Sensor network (SN); Wireless sensor networks (WSNs); Network control centre (NCC); Data gathering
• ISSN: 0929-6212; 1572-834X
• DOI: 10.1007/s11277-018-5693-6

Recently, Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have turned out to be a dominant subject of research due to its application areas. Moreover, with the integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in the loop, WSN becomes more valuable and interested topic among research community. With the addition of UAV in WSN, life span of WSN is increased and communication between WSN and Network Control Centre becomes more efficient. UAVs not only increased the life of the network, but also reduce the data processing and memory related issues in the network. In this paper, we address the problem of data gathering from a WSN with altitude controlled UAV. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of our proposed method.