Over the course of the last decade, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research community has received a significant amount of attention. Emergency response operations, such as those that follow a natural disaster, are one of the civil applications that could benefit from the use of UAVs in disaster and crisis management. In the event of a catastrophic event, it would be extremely beneficial for both victims and first responders to have access to a UAV network that is capable of deploying independently and offering communication services. However, when working with complicated situations, one of the most difficult things is coming up with exploratory paths for the networks involved. A crisis and disaster management system using a swarm optimization algorithm (SOA) is proposed to assist in disaster and crisis management. In this system, the UAV search and rescue team follows the strategy called the delay tolerant network, which has the ability to explore. The proposed approach is able to find the global maximum in the search space without ever settling for a suboptimal solution. This work has two primary objectives: the first is to investigate a potential disaster zone, and the second is to direct the UAV to a number of victim groups that were found during the investigation phase. For the purpose of performing a characterization, performance metrics such as delay, throughput, performance rate, and path loss have been analyzed. The results show the superiority of the performance over the existing work.

The Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA) outperforms well-known algorithms such as particle swarm optimizers and grey wolf optimizers in complex optimization challenges. However, like most meta-heuristic algorithms, SSA suffers from slow convergence and stagnation in the best local solution. In this study, a Salp swarm algorithm (SSA) is combined with a local escaping operator (LEO) to overcome some inherent limitations of the original SSA. SSALEO is a novel search technique that accounts for population diversity, the imbalance between exploitation and exploration, and the SSA algorithm’s premature convergence. By implementing LEO in SSALEO, the search slowdown in SSA is eliminated, and the local search efficiency of swarm agents is improved. The proposed SSALEO method is tested using the CEC 2017 benchmark with 50 and 100 decision variables, seven CEC2008lsgo test functions with 200, 500, and 1000 decision variables, and its performance was compared to other metaheuristic algorithms (MAs) and advanced algorithms, including seven Salp swarm variants. The comparisons show that SSA greatly benefits from LEO by enhancing the quality and accelerating its solutions’ convergence rate. The SSALEO was then assessed using a benchmark set of seven well-known constrained design challenges in various engineering domains defined in the CEC 2020 conference benchmark. Friedman and Wilcoxon rank-sum statistical tests are also used to examine the results. ACCORDING TO EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND STATISTICAL TESTS, the SSALEO algorithm is very competitive and often superior to the algorithms used in the studies. Further, the proposed approach can be viewed as a special LSGO optimizer whose performance exceeds that of specialized state-of-the-art algorithms like CMA-ES and SHADE.

Sensing devices, high-performance networking, and privacy preservation algorithms have an important role to play in remotely sensed environmental data in smart cities. The data generated by these sensors are heterogeneous, vast, and sensitive. Therefore, it is imperative that adequate security mechanisms are put in place to protect environmental data from privacy breaches and malicious attacks. Prior to data analysis, remotely sensed environmental data, such as weather conditions (windy, cloudy, or rainy), soil types, and other similar data, must be protected. The biggest risks of remotely connected devices are that sensitive information could be leaked and devices could be compromised. Considering these security threats, this paper proposes a Pertinent Privacy Preserving Scheme (P3S). The presented scheme is reliable for sensitive geo-sensed data in thwarting the aforementioned security issues. The data is concealed using two-factor authentication from the transmitter end. In this authentication, the device and receiver's signature are overlapped for improved authentication. The failure in overlapping is identified by delayed signing time and non-coherent agreements. This identification is recurrently analyzed using federated learning. Therefore, the signing process is paused until the device verification is performed. Hence, if the device verification succeeds, then a new data privacy accumulation session is introduced. Contrarily, the accumulation is dropped, preventing compromised actual data from preserving accuracy. In two-factor authentication, lightweight digital signing cryptography is utilized. The proposed scheme maximizes the average authentication success rate and average overlapping factor by 8.86%, and 12.20% respectively. This scheme further reduces average authentication time, false data, and verification time by 10.14%, 9.70%, and 10.19% respectively.