Optimized UAV-based data collection from MWSNs

In this paper, we formulate an Energy Efficient (EE) deployment for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSNs) that consists of multiple clusters of sensor nodes, one mobile sink in each of them, and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for the whole MWSN. The UAV receives the collected sensed data from the mobile sinks wirelessly in order to deliver them to various IoT-based users' devices. Experimental results show that the proposed model can achieve optimization in terms of energy consumption minimization and network lifetime enhancement.(c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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This paper presents an Energy Efficient deployment strategy for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSNs) using multiple sensor node clusters, a mobile sink in each cluster, and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for the entire MWSN. The UAV wirelessly receives sensed data from the mobile sinks and delivers them to IoT-based users' devices. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves optimization in terms of minimizing energy consumption and enhancing network lifetime.