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Asst. Prof.  Müjdat Soyturk

Title: Effects of UAV Mobility Patterns on Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract:  Sensor nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can be dispersed over a remote sensing area e.g. the regions that cannot be accessed by human beings (inaccessible regions). In such kind of networks, data collection becomes one of the major issues. Getting connected to each sensor node and retrieving the information in time introduces new challenges. Mobile sink usage, especially the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), is the most convenient approach to cover the area and access each sensor node in such a large scale WSN. However, the operation of the UAV depends on some parameters such as endurance time, altitude, speed, radio type in use, and the path. In this paper, we explore various mobility patterns of UAV that follow different paths to sweep the playground in order to seek the best area coverage with maximum number of covered nodes in less amount of time needed by the mobile sink. A realistic simulation environment is used in order to compare and evaluate the performance of the system. We present the performance results for the explored UAV mobility patterns. The results are very useful to present the tradeoff between maximizing the covered nodes and minimizing the operation time for choosing the appropriate mobility pattern.

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Asst. Prof.   Fatma Corut Ergin

Title: Performance Analysis of Nature Inspired Heuristics for Survivable Virtual Topology Mapping

Abstract:  The high capacity of fibers used in optical networks, can be divided into many channels, using the WDM technology. Any damage to a fiber causes all the channels routed through this link to be broken, which may result in a serious amount of data loss. As a solution to this problem, the virtual layer can be mapped onto the physical topology, such that, a failure on any physical link does not disconnect the virtual topology. This is known as the survivable virtual topology mapping problem. In this study, we investigated the performance of two popular nature inspired heuristics, namely, evolutionary algorithms and ant colony optimization, in finding a survivable mapping of a given virtual topology while minimizing the resource usage. Our results show that both nature inspired heuristics perform remarkably well for this problem. Furthermore, both methods can obtain high quality solutions in less than a minute.