UAV-Aided Cooperative Data Collection Scheme for Ocean Monitoring Networks

• Published in: IEEE internet of things journal Vol. 8; no. 17; pp. 13222 - 13236
• Main Authors: Ma, Ruofei, Wang, Ruisong, Liu, Gongliang, Meng, Weixiao, Liu, Xiqing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.09.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Autonomous underwater vehicles; Data collection; Decomposition; Frequency division multiple access; Graph matching; Graph theory; Ground stations; Hovering; Iterative algorithms; Iterative methods; Mixed integer; Multiple access; Nodes; NOMA; ocean monitoring networks (OMNs); Optimization; Radio equipment; Radio frequency; Relays; Remote monitoring; Resource allocation; Sea surface; Search algorithms; underwater acoustic communication; Underwater acoustics; Underwater communication; Underwater detectors; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless communications

In this article, we present an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided ocean monitoring network for remote oceanic data collection, in which monitoring data are transmitted first from battery-powered underwater sensor nodes (USNs) to sea surface sink nodes (SNs) in a data collection cycle using underwat...