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An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology for providing wireless coverage to ground user devices. For all the infrastructure communication networks destroyed in disasters, UAVs battery life is challenging during service…

The safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs) depends on their ability to perform complex computations on high-volume sensor data in a timely manner. Their ability to run these computations with state-of-the-art models is limited by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Peter Schafhalter , Sukrit Kalra , Le Xu , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained wide research interests due to their technological advancement and high mobility. The UAVs are equipped with increasingly advanced capabilities to run computationally intensive applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Wei Chong Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Chunyan Miao , Zhu Han , Dong In Kim

With prosperity of applications on smartphones, energy saving for smartphones has drawn increasing attention. In this paper we devise Phone2Cloud, a computation offloading-based system for energy saving on smartphones in the context of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Feng Xia , Fangwei Ding , Jie Li , Xiangjie Kong , Laurence T. Yang , Jianhua Ma

Computation task service delivery in a computing-enabled and caching-aided multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) system is studied in this paper, where a MEC server can deliver the input or output datas of tasks to mobile devices over a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Hui Liu

The conventional designs of mobile computation offloading fetch user-specific data to the cloud prior to computing, called offline prefetching. However, this approach can potentially result in excessive fetching of large volumes of data and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Seung-Woo Ko , Kaibin Huang , Seong-Lyun Kim , Hyukjin Chae

In the era of Internet of Things, all components in intelligent transportation systems will be connected to improve transport safety, relieve traffic congestion, reduce air pollution and enhance the comfort of driving. The vision of all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-29 Rong Yu , Yan Zhang , Stein Gjessing , Wenlong Xia , Kun Yang

We consider a general multi-user Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) system where each mobile user has multiple independent tasks. These mobile users share the computation and communication resources while offloading tasks to the cloud. We study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Meng-Hsi Chen , Ben Liang , Min Dong

Over the air computation (AirComp) is a promising technique that addresses big data collection and fast wireless data aggregation. However, in a network where wireless communication and AirComp coexist, mutual interference becomes a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Xunqiang Lan , Xiao Tang , Ruonan Zhang , Bin Li , Yichen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Pervasive applications are revolutionizing the perception that users have towards the environment. Indeed, pervasive applications perform resource intensive computations over large amounts of stream sensor data collected from multiple…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Mohan Liyanage , Farooq Dar , Rajesh Sharma , Huber Flores

Over the last years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have seen significant advancements in sensor capabilities and computational abilities, allowing for efficient autonomous navigation and visual tracking applications. However, the demand…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Malte Janßen , Tobias Pfandzelter , Minghe Wang , David Bermbach

Mobile devices are becoming the primary platforms for many users who always roam around when accessing the cloud computing services. From this, the cloud computing is integrated into the mobile environment by introducing a new paradigm,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-16 Qi Qi , Yufei Cao

This paper proposes a novel user cooperation approach in both computation and communication for mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to improve the energy efficiency for latency-constrained computation. We consider a basic three-node MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Xiaowen Cao , Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui

In this letters, an energy-efficient integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) for space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN)-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems is proposed to facilitate wide coverage and real-time 6G services. For…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Sooyeob Jung , Seongah Jeong , Jinkyu Kang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks are not operational due to natural disasters. They can also be used to supplement the ground base station in order to provide better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Issa Khalil

Two enablers of the 5th Generation (5G) of mobile communication systems are the high data rates achievable with millimeter-wave radio signals and the cloudification of the network's mobile edge, made possible also by Multi-access Edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Nicola di Pietro , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered as an efficient method to relieve the computation burden of mobile devices. In order to reduce the energy consumption and time delay of mobile devices (MDs) in MEC, multiple users multiple input and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Changfeng Ding , Jun-Bo Wang , Ming Cheng , Chuanwen Chang , Jin-Yuan Wang , Min Lin

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

In this paper, we propose a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing, communication, and computation network. Specifically, the treble-functional UAVs are capable of offering communication and edge computing services…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sicong Peng , Bin Li , Lei Liu , Zesong Fei , Dusit Niyato

Multiple access mobile edge computing is an emerging technique to bring computation resources close to end mobile users. By deploying edge servers at WiFi access points or cellular base stations, the computation capabilities of mobile users…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Xin Long , Jigang Wu , Long Chen