Improved Soft-k-Means Clustering Algorithm for Balancing Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks

no code implementations • 23 Mar 2024 • Botao Zhu, Ebrahim Bedeer, Ha H. Nguyen, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry

Energy load balancing is an essential issue in designing wireless sensor networks (WSNs).

Clustering Density Estimation

UAV Trajectory Planning for AoI-Minimal Data Collection in UAV-Aided IoT Networks by Transformer

no code implementations • 8 Nov 2023 • Botao Zhu, Ebrahim Bedeer, Ha H. Nguyen, Robert Barton, Zhen Gao

Maintaining freshness of data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks has attracted increasing attention.

Decoder Trajectory Planning

Joint Cluster Head Selection and Trajectory Planning in UAV-Aided IoT Networks by Reinforcement Learning with Sequential Model

no code implementations • 1 Dec 2021 • Botao Zhu, Ebrahim Bedeer, Ha H. Nguyen, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry

Employing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted growing interests and emerged as the state-of-the-art technology for data collection in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks.

Combinatorial Optimization Total Energy +1

UAV Trajectory Planning in Wireless Sensor Networks for Energy Consumption Minimization by Deep Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations • 1 Aug 2021 • Botao Zhu, Ebrahim Bedeer, Ha H. Nguyen, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry

Toward this end, we formulate the energy consumption minimization problem as a constrained combinatorial optimization problem by jointly selecting CHs from nodes within clusters and planning the UAV's visiting order to the selected CHs.

Combinatorial Optimization Reinforcement Learning (RL) +2