Supporting Path Planning in LoRa-based UAVs for dynamic Coverage for IoT devices

Nowadays, Internet of Things (IoT) is a well-known and fast-growing paradigm. It aims to have physical entities that can gather and share information through wireless technologies. For large monitoring environments and large areas it can be suitable to use long-range IoT technologies. The paper focuses on LoRa integrated into Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The purpose of this work is to apply mobile LoRa Gateway (GTW) on a UAV, to cover larger areas where a lot of IoT devices are deployed. In this case, intelligent path and UAVs mobility need to be designed to improve the overall network performance considering heterogeneous traffic conditions triggered by IoT devices. The dynamic UAV coverage must be performed reliably, considering the number of packet losses as low as possible and, at the same time, the power consumption of the drone must be low.