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With the advent of ever-growing vehicular applications, vehicular edge computing (VEC) has been a promising solution to augment the computing capacity of future smart vehicles. The ultimate challenge to fulfill the quality of service (QoS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Youngsu Jang , Seongah Jeong , Joonhyuk Kang

This letter investigates a cache-enabled multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system with dynamic task arrivals, taking into account the impact of proactive cache placement on the system's overall energy consumption. We consider that an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jingxuan Liang , Hong Xing , Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

This paper proposes a generalised propulsion energy consumption model (PECM) for rotary-wing ummanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) under the consideration of the practical thrust-to-weight ratio (TWR) with respect to the velocity, acceleration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Xinhong Dai , Bin Duo , Xiaojun Yuan , Wanbin Tang

This paper explores the advancement of Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) as a tailored application of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) for the automotive industry, addressing the rising demand for real-time processing in connected and autonomous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mahsa Paknejad , Parisa Fard Moshiri , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Hussein T. Mouftah

Task offloading to mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a key technology to alleviate the computation workloads of mobile devices and decrease service latency for the computation-intensive applications. Device battery consumption is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Siqi Zhang , Na Yi , Yi Ma

During the last few years, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with sensors and cameras has emerged as a cutting-edge technology to provide services such as surveillance, infrastructure inspections, and target acquisition.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Alessandro Traspadini , Marco Giordani , Giovanni Giambene , Tomaso De Cola , Michele Zorzi

Due to the ever-increasing popularity of resource-hungry and delay-constrained mobile applications, the computation and storage capabilities of remote cloud has partially migrated towards the mobile edge, giving rise to the concept known as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Shermila Ranadheera , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

In this paper, we consider a multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) network powered by wireless power transfer (WPT), where each energy-harvesting WD follows a binary computation offloading policy, i.e., data set of a task has to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

A promising technique to provide mobile applications with high computation resources is to offload the processing task to the cloud. Utilizing the abundant processing capabilities of the clouds, mobile edge computing enables mobile devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Meysam Masoudi , Cicek Cavdar

Although multi-access edge computing (MEC) has allowed for computation offloading at the network edge, weak wireless signals in the radio access network caused by obstacles and high network load are still preventing efficient edge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Elie El Haber , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine , Kim Khoa Nguyen

In this paper, we study a mobile edge computing (MEC) system in which the mobile device is assisted by a base station (BS) and a cooperative node. The mobile device has sequential tasks to complete, whereas the cooperative node assists the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Xiangg Li , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

The integration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies has recently emerged as an effective solution for extending battery life and increasing the computing power of wireless devices. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yuegui Chen , Suzhi Bi , Xian Li , Xiaohui Lin , Hui Wang

Driven by the unprecedented high throughput and low latency requirements in next-generation wireless networks, this paper introduces an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled framework in which unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Zhong Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

This paper introduces an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled network slicing problem to provide content delivery, sensing data gathering, and mobile edge computing (MEC) services. Three tenants provide services to their clients by sharing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Ahmed A. Al-habob , Octavia A. Dobre , Yindi Jing

In this paper, we present a novel mobile edge computing (MEC) model where the MEC server has the input and output data of all computation tasks and communicates with multiple caching-and-computing-enabled mobile devices via a shared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Hui Liu

This paper investigates a rotatable antenna (RA) assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) network, where multiple users offload their computation tasks to an edge server equipped with an RA array under a time-division multiple access protocol.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ji Wang , Hao Chen , Yixuan Li , Jun Zhang , Xingwang Li , Ming Zeng , Octavia A. Dobre

Given flexible mobility, rapid deployment, and low cost, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) shows great potential to compensate for the lack of terrestrial edge computing coverage. However, limited battery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Long He , Geng Sun , Zemin Sun , Pengfei Wang , Jiahui Li , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, we investigate a secure communication architecture based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which enhances the security performance of the communication system through UAV trajectory optimization. We formulate a control…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Zhendong Li , Chang Su , Zhou Su , Haixia Peng , Yuntao Wang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) addresses computational and battery limitations in devices by allowing them to offload computation tasks. To overcome the difficulties in establishing line-of-sight connections, integrating unmanned aerial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Pyae Sone Aung , Loc X. Nguyen , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Driven by great demands on low-latency services of the edge devices (EDs), mobile edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the computing capacities at the edge of the radio access network. However, conventional MEC servers suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Pengfei Wang , Zijie Zheng , Boya Di , Lingyang Song