Heba G. Mohamed¹, Saud S. Alotaibi², Majdy M. Eltahir³, Heba Mohsen⁴, Manar Ahmed Hamza^5,*, Abu Sarwar Zamani⁵, Ishfaq Yaseen⁵, Abdelwahed Motwakel⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5441-5458, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031887 - 28 July 2022

Abstract The Internet of Drones (IoD) offers synchronized access to organized airspace for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (known as drones). The availability of inexpensive sensors, processors, and wireless communication makes it possible in real time applications. As several applications comprise IoD in real time environment, significant interest has been received by research communications. Since IoD operates in wireless environment, it is needed to design effective intrusion detection system (IDS) to resolve security issues in the IoD environment. This article introduces a metaheuristics feature selection with optimal stacked autoencoder based intrusion detection (MFSOSAE-ID) in the IoD environment. The… More >

Mohamed H. Mousa^1,2,*, Mohamed K. Hussein²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.133, No.2, pp. 413-434, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020639 - 21 July 2022

Abstract Mobile-Edge Computing (MEC) displaces cloud services as closely as possible to the end user. This enables the edge servers to execute the offloaded tasks that are requested by the users, which in turn decreases the energy consumption and the turnaround time delay. However, as a result of a hostile environment or in catastrophic zones with no network, it could be difficult to deploy such edge servers. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be employed in such scenarios. The edge servers mounted on these UAVs assist with task offloading. For the majority of IoT applications, the execution… More >

R. Rajender¹, C. S. S. Anupama², G. Jose Moses³, E. Laxmi Lydia⁴, Seifedine Kadry⁵, Sangsoon Lim^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3351-3365, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030229 - 16 June 2022

Abstract In recent times, sixth generation (6G) communication technologies have become a hot research topic because of maximum throughput and low delay services for mobile users. It encompasses several heterogeneous resource and communication standard in ensuring incessant availability of service. At the same time, the development of 6G enables the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in offering cost and time-efficient solution to several applications like healthcare, surveillance, disaster management, etc. In UAV networks, energy efficiency and data collection are considered the major process for high quality network communication. But these procedures are found to be challenging because… More >

Ashit Kumar Dutta^1,*, Yasser Albagory², Abdul Rahaman Wahab Sait³, Ismail Mohamed Keshta¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 899-915, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026783 - 18 May 2022

Abstract Recently, autonomous systems become a hot research topic among industrialists and academicians due to their applicability in different domains such as healthcare, agriculture, industrial automation, etc. Among the interesting applications of autonomous systems, their applicability in agricultural sector becomes significant. Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used for suitable site-specific weed management (SSWM) to improve crop productivity. In spite of substantial advancements in UAV based data collection systems, automated weed detection still remains a tedious task owing to the high resemblance of weeds to the crops. The recently developed deep learning (DL) models have… More >

Ahmed Althobaiti¹, Abdullah Alhumaidi Alotaibi², Sayed Abdel-Khalek³, Suliman A. Alsuhibany⁴, Romany F. Mansour^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 1921-1938, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025550 - 24 February 2022

Abstract Latest advancements in the integration of camera sensors paves a way for new Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) applications such as analyzing geographical (spatial) variations of earth science in mitigating harmful environmental impacts and climate change. UAVs have achieved significant attention as a remote sensing environment, which captures high-resolution images from different scenes such as land, forest fire, flooding threats, road collision, landslides, and so on to enhance data analysis and decision making. Dynamic scene classification has attracted much attention in the examination of earth data captured by UAVs. This paper proposes a new multi-modal fusion… More >

Olubukola D. Adekola^1,*, Onyedikachi Kenny Udekwu², Oluwatobi Tolulope Saliu², Damilola Williams Dada², Stephen O. Maitanmi¹, Victor Odumuyiwa³, Olujimi Alao², Monday Eze², Funmilayo Abibat Kasali⁴, Ayokunle Omotunde²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.41, No.3, pp. 875-890, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.021029 - 10 November 2021

Abstract The applications of information technology (IT) tools and techniques have, over the years, simplified complex problem solving procedures. But the power of automation is inhibited by the technicality in manning advanced equipment. To this end, tools deliberately combating this inhibition and advancing technological growth are the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). UAVs are rapidly taking over major industries such as logistics, security, and cinematography. Among others, this is a very efficient way of carrying out missions unconventional to humans. An application area of this technology is the local film industry which is not producing quality movies… More >

K. R. Uthayan^1,*, G. Lakshmi Vara Prasad², V. Mohan³, C. Bharatiraja⁴, Irina V. Pustokhina⁵, Denis A. Pustokhin⁶, Vicente García Díaz⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5161-5177, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021300 - 11 October 2021

Abstract Recent trends in communication technologies and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) find its application in several areas such as healthcare, surveillance, transportation, etc. Besides, the integration of Internet of things (IoT) with cloud computing environment offers several benefits for the UAV communication. At the same time, aerial scene classification is one of the major research areas in UAV-enabled MEC systems. In UAV aerial imagery, efficient image representation is crucial for the purpose of scene classification. The existing scene classification techniques generate mid-level image features with limited representation capabilities that often end up in producing average results.… More >

Bander Alzahrani¹, Ahmed Barnawi¹, Azeem Irshad², Areej Alhothali¹, Reem Alotaibi¹, Muhammad Shafiq^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 6141-6158, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020774 - 11 October 2021

Abstract Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently attracted widespread attention in civil and commercial applications. For example, UAVs (or drone) technology is increasingly used in crowd monitoring solutions due to its wider air footprint and the ability to capture data in real time. However, due to the open atmosphere, drones can easily be lost or captured by attackers when reporting information to the crowd management center. In addition, the attackers may initiate malicious detection to disrupt the crowd-sensing communication network. Therefore, security and privacy are one of the most significant challenges faced by drones or the… More >

Akshya Jothi, P. L. K. Priyadarsini^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.3, pp. 1577-1591, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020974 - 09 October 2021

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are in use for surveillance services in the geographic areas, that are very hard and sometimes not reachable by humans. Nowadays, UAVs are being used as substitutions to manned operations in various applications. The intensive utilization of autonomous UAVs has given rise to many new challenges. One of the vital problems that arise while deploying UAVs in surveillance applications is the Coverage Path Planning(CPP) problem. Given a geographic area, the problem is to find an optimal path/tour for the UAV such that it covers the entire area of interest with minimal… More >

Shidrokh Goudarzi^1,2,*, Seyed Ahmad Soleymani^2,3, Mohammad Hossein Anisi⁴, Domenico Ciuonzo⁵, Nazri Kama⁶, Salwani Abdullah¹, Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi², Zenon Chaczko⁷, Azri Azmi⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 715-738, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019550 - 07 September 2021

Abstract The Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a promising technology that could be used to monitor rivers’ water levels for early warning flood detection in the 5G context. However, during a flood, sensor nodes may be washed up or become faulty, which seriously affects network connectivity. To address this issue, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) could be integrated with WSN as routers or data mules to provide reliable data collection and flood prediction. In light of this, we propose a fault-tolerant multi-level framework comprised of a WSN and a UAV to monitor river levels. The framework is… More >