A rendezvous point estimation considering drone speed and data collection delay

There are many applications related to interworking drones and ground wireless sensor networks to collect sensing data. A drone serves as a sink that collects all of the data on an entire wireless sensor network. Existing studies focus on reducing the energy consumption and flight distance of drones by using predetermined information such as the drone's trajectory, sensor locations, and the network topology, among other types. In this paper, we propose a rendezvous point estimation scheme that takes into account the drone speed and the mean of the data collection delay without any predetermined information. Simulation results show that our scheme is more reliable in terms of data collection.