Drone Assisted Internet of Things: Advances, Challenges, and Future Trends

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information and Communications Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 703

Special Issue Editors

Department of Computer Science, Air University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Interests: machine learning; Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning; big data analytics; demosaicking and denoising; Internet of Things
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing domain due to its increasing communication systems to help people make their lives easier. Drones are also playing a vital role in IoT smart services including precision agriculture, forest monitoring, smart waste management systems, disaster management, weather forecasting, and transportation systems, etc. The advancements in IoT applications could be magnified by utilizing drones as service enablers, particularly in highly populated urban areas. The fixed access points in dense urban areas for collecting data interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure technology is quite challenging due to the higher deployment cost in dense cities and maintenance costs in urban cities. Drone technologies offer long and reliable operating services, location-centric mobility, and cost-effective solutions for IoT.

Towards this end, drone technology still needs to be investigated as a cost-effective technology for smart IoT services. Towards drone technology in the IoT, there are a number of questions that need to be answered, such as how to develop resource allocation and management frameworks, how to design best approaches, how the privacy of IoT devices can be ensured in communication with drones, how to develop new location-centric services, and which communication protocols can be utilized in the drone-assisted IoT environment. These questions need greater attention from the research community in smart cities where drones and Internet-enabled devices can communicate.

The objective of this Special Issue is to promote drone-assisted IoT developments for better and cost-effective services. The submitted papers should address issues relevant to the theme of this Special Issue, and must fall within the scope of Information.

Topics of Interest:

The topics relevant to this Special Issue include but are not limited to:

  • Drone-enabled distributed consensus in resource-limited Internet of Things devices;
  • Resource allocation frameworks for the drone-enabled Internet of Things;
  • Drone-enabled location-centric service frameworks for the Internet of Things;
  • Data communication for drone-enabled Internet of Things;
  • New secure applications for Internet of Things scenarios;
  • Privacy-preserving methods for the drone-enabled Internet of Things;
  • Drone-enabled lightweight security models for the drone-enabled Internet of Things;
  • Edge-computing-enabled frameworks for the drone-enabled Internet of Things;
  • Green communication architectures for drone-enabled Internet of Vehicles;
  • Lightweight security models for the drone-enabled Internet of Vehicles;
  • 5G-centric service architecture for the drone-enabled Internet of Vehicles;
  • Big traffic data analytics and prediction for the drone-enabled Internet of Things.

Dr. MIEEE Awais Ahmad
Dr. Kashif Naseer Qureshi
Guest Editors

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