The development of Electric Vehicle (EV) helps to ease energy crises and deduce vehicle exhaust emissions. However, it also brings a great impact on both transportation networks and power grids. There are some serious impediments in terms of energy charging to the popularization of EV, such as high deployment cost of charging stations, low charging efficiency, and voltage deviation of power grid. To address these issues, we design a new EV charging system, which levers the bus network in urban areas through the integration of OnLine Electric Vehicle (OLEV) system and Microwave Power Transfer (MPT) system. We formulate the EV route scheduling problem based on this new charging system to maximize the total residual energy subject to all EVs can arrive to their destinations before deadlines. Then, we propose an approximation algorithm, RSA, to solve the route scheduling problem. To relieve the traffic congestion, we further formulate the conflict-free EV route scheduling problem, and use the matching based algorithm, FRSA, to find the EV route schedules with the maximal residual energy. Through the extensive simulations, we demonstrate that RSA and FRSA can increase the average residual energy by 67.66% and 50.36% compared with the solution without the designed wireless charging system, respectively. Moreover, RSA reduces 22.22% of travel time and outputs 77.23% of residual energy, and FRSA can obtain 83.51% residual energy with 3.62% of extra travel time of the corresponding optimal solutions on average, respectively.

Video surveillance system is the integration of computers, networks, communications, and video CODEC, etc. Because of its distributed architecture, parallel image processing and ease of installation and expansion, it is widely used in many fields such as education, transportation and industry. However, there are some challenges of video surveillance applications in smart cities such as large scale of video events, low quality and big delay of video data transmission, and the loss of video surveillance data integrity. In order to solve the above problems, this paper designs a series of optimization algorithms and scheduling strategies based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) cluster. Firstly, we construct a full device coverage network with UAV cluster in heterogeneous communication environment of smart cities. Secondly, we formulate the scheduling problem of UAV cluster as bi-objective fragile bin packing problem, and design an optimal scheduling algorithm with constant approximation performance ratio. The simulation experimental results fully demonstrate the effectiveness, feasibility and robustness of the proposed solution in terms of system life cycle, video decodable frame rate, the ratio of UAV flight time to system life cycle, throughput and delay.

Given a set of Disease surveillance Area (DsA)s and Point of disease Surveillance (PoS)s, some sensors are deployed to monitor these PoSs, and a drone collect data from the sensors as well as charge the sensors to extend their life-cycles. The drone replenish its energy by relying on the bus network. We first formulate the drone assisted regional disease surveillance problem under the constraints of life-cycle of sensors and energy of drone, and propose an approximation algorithm to find a feasible cycle of drone to minimize the traveling time cost of drone. To satisfy the diversity requirements and dynamic scalability of regional disease surveillance, we deploy one robot in each DsA instead of sensors. We further formulate the learning transferable driven regional disease surveillance problem, and propose a joint schedule algorithm of drone and robots. The results of both theoretical analysis and extensive simulations show that the proposed algorithms can reduce the total time cost by 39.71% and 48.74% and average waiting time by 42.00% and 50.14%, and increase the average accessing ratio of PoSs by 15.53% and 22.30%, through the assistance of bus network and learning transferable features.

This paper proposes a link-level hybrid FEC/ARQ based on an adaptive forward error correction (adaptive FEC) algorithm for wireless media streaming, in the hope that the media could be played on receivers with high quality. This model, which uses adaptive forward error correction mechanism at the application layer to adjust to the current network condition, can maximize the performance of wireless multimedia communication. Our simulation results and mathematical analysis show that the hybrid FEC/ARQ achieves better quality of media streaming comparing with FEC alone and ARQ alone, in terms of playable frame rate, reliability and real-time performance on the receiving side.