Rania M Tawfik1, Hazem A. A. Nomer2, M. Saeed Darweesh1,*, Ali Wagdy Mohamed3,4, Hassan Mostafa5,6
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5999-6013, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028234
- 21 April 2022
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide a reliable and energy-efficient solution for data collection from the Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) devices. However, the UAV’s deployment optimization, including locations of the UAV’s stop points, is a necessity to minimize the energy consumption of the UAV and the NB-IoT devices and also to conduct the data collection efficiently. In this regard, this paper proposes Gaining-Sharing Knowledge (GSK) algorithm for optimizing the UAV’s deployment. In GSK, the number of UAV’s stop points in the three-dimensional space is encapsulated into a single individual with a fixed length representing an More >