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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used to enable wireless communications. Due to their characteristics, such as the ability to hover and carry cargo, UAVs can serve as communications nodes, including Wi-Fi Access Points and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Pedro Ribeiro , André Coelho , Rui Campos

In this paper, we jointly optimize computation offloading and resource allocation to minimize the weighted sum of energy consumption of all mobile users in a backhaul limited cooperative MEC system with multiple fog servers. Considering the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Phuong-Duy Nguyen , Vu Nguyen Ha , Long Bao Le

Owing to the controlling flexibility and cost-effectiveness, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to serve as flying base stations (BSs) in the air-ground integrated network. By exploiting the mobility of UAVs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Xuezhen Yan , Xuming Fang , Cailian Deng , Xianbin Wang

Mobile agent networks, such as multi-UAV systems, are constrained by limited resources. In particular, limited energy affects system performance directly, such as system lifetime. It has been demonstrated in the wireless sensor network…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Mason Thammawichai , Sujit P. Baliyarasimhuni , Eric C. Kerrigan , João B. Sousa

This paper introduces a novel multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) scheme facilitated by the simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) and the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Unlike existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Weile Zhang , Wenjie Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang

This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communication system with energy harvesting, where the UAV transfers energy to the users in half duplex or full duplex, and the users harvest energy for data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-25 Zhaohui Yang , Wei Xu , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this paper, we study unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted wireless data aggregation (WDA) in multicluster networks, where multiple UAVs simultaneously perform different WDA tasks via over-the-air computation (AirComp) without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Zhang

Mobile-edge cloud computing is a new paradigm to provide cloud computing capabilities at the edge of pervasive radio access networks in close proximity to mobile users. In this paper, we first study the multi-user computation offloading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Xu Chen , Lei Jiao , Wenzhong Li , Xiaoming Fu

In this paper, a novel framework is proposed to enable a predictive deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as temporary base stations (BSs) to complement ground cellular systems in face of downlink traffic overload. First, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Qianqian Zhang , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Xing Lu , Merouane Debbah , Wangda Zuo

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

In this paper, we investigate robust resource allocation algorithm design for multiuser downlink multiple-input single-output (MISO) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems, where we account for the various uncertainties that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-29 Dongfang Xu , Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Target tracking is an important issue of social security. In order to track a target, traditionally a large amount of surveillance video data need to be uploaded into the cloud for processing and analysis, which put stremendous bandwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-05 Yajun Liu , Congxu Zhu , Xiaoheng Deng , Peiyuan Guan , Zhiwen Wan , Jie Luo , Enlu Liu , Honggang Zhang

In the context of 6th generation (6G) networks, vehicular edge computing (VEC) is emerging as a promising solution to let battery-powered ground vehicles with limited computing and storage resources offload processing tasks to more powerful…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Alessandro Traspadini , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

Multi-access edge computing (MEC)-enabled integrated space-air-ground (SAG) networks have drawn much attention recently, as they can provide communication and computing services to wireless devices in areas that lack terrestrial base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yan Kyaw Tun , György Dán , Yu Min Park , Choong Seon Hong

In this letter, we study multiuser communication systems enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is equipped with a directional antenna of adjustable beamwidth. We propose a fly-hover-and-communicate protocol where the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Haiyun He , Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

This paper studies a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which one base station (BS) serves multiple users with intensive computation tasks. We exploit the multi-antenna non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Zhiguo Ding

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we investigate a joint computation offloading and target tracking in Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network. Therein, the UAV has a computing task that is partially offloaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Trinh Van Chien , Mai Dinh Cong , Nguyen Cong Luong , Tri Nhu Do , Dong In Kim , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this paper, we propose a double-edge-assisted computation offloading and resource allocation scheme tailored for space-air-marine integrated networks (SAMINs). Specifically, we consider a scenario where both unmanned aerial vehicles…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zhen Wang , Bin Lin , Qiang , Ye

Efficient data processing and computation are essential for the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) to empower various applications, which yet can be significantly bottlenecked by the limited energy capacity and computation capability of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Xiao Tang , Hongrui Zhang , Ruonan Zhang , Deyun Zhou , Yan Zhang , Zhu Han