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The proliferation of innovative mobile services such as augmented reality, networked gaming, and autonomous driving has spurred a growing need for low-latency access to computing resources that cannot be met solely by existing centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Konstantinos Poularakis , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Ian Taylor , Leandros Tassiulas

With the advent of technologies such as Edge computing, the horizons of remote computational applications have broadened multidimensionally. Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) mission is a vital application to utilize remote…

The rotatable reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can enhance mobile edge computing (MEC) performance by optimizing its orientation to improve the gain of received and transmitted signals. This correspondence investigates a rotatable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Bin Li , Dongdong Yang , Lei Liu

This paper presents an innovative framework that synergistically enhances computing performance through ubiquitous computing power distribution and dynamic computing node accessibility control via adaptive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yiqin Deng , Zhengru Fang , Senkang Hu , Yanan Ma , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a type of network architecture that provides cloud computing capabilities at the edge of the network. We consider the use case of video surveillance for an university campus running on a 5G-MEC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ricardo N. Boing , Hugo Vaz Sampaio , Fernando Koch , Rene N. S. Cruz , Carlos B. Westphall

With rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, application of the UAVs for task offloading has received increasing interest in the academia. However, real-time interaction between one UAV and the mobile edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Long Hu , Yuanwen Tian , Jun Yang , Tarik Taleb , Lin Xiang , Yixue Hao

This paper addresses join wireless and computing resource allocation in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems with several access points and with the possibility that users connect to many access points, and utilize the computation capability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 M. Zeng

In this letter, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted mobile edge computing network, where the UAV executes computational tasks offloaded from mobile terminal users (TUs) and the motion of each TU follows a Gauss-Markov random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Q. Liu , L. Shi , L. Sun , J. Li , M. Ding , F. Shu

In this work, a delay-tolerant unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relayed covert and secure communication framework is investigated. In this framework, a legitimate UAV serves as an aerial relay to realize communication when the direct link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiacheng Jiang , Hongjiang Lei , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer are technologies that can assist in the implementation of next generation wireless networks, which will deploy a large number of computational and energy limited devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

This paper introduces the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as lightweight wireless access points that leverage the fixed infrastructure in the context of the emerging open radio access network (O-RAN). More precisely, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Hossein Mohammadi , Vuk Marojevic , Bodong Shang

Integrated into existing Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) serve as a cornerstone in meeting the stringent requirements of future Internet of Things (IoT) networks. The current endeavor studies an MEC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Maryam Farajzadeh Dehkordi , Bijan Jabbari

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has been envisioned as a promising paradigm to meet ever-increasing resource demands of mobile users, prolong battery lives of mobile devices, and shorten request response delays experienced by users. An MEC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Zhuang Wang , Weifa Liang , Meitian Huang , Yu Ma

In conventional terrestrial cellular networks, mobile terminals (MTs) at the cell edge often pose a performance bottleneck due to their long distances from the serving ground base station (GBS), especially in hotspot period when the GBS is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Jiangbin Lyu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) fill coverage holes as wireless relays during emergency situations. Fixed-wing UAVs offer longer flight duration and larger coverage in such situations than rotary-wing counterparts. Maximizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daniel T. Bonkowsky , Ibrahim Kilinc , Robert W. Heath

By allowing a mobile device to offload computation-intensive tasks to a base station, mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for saving the mobile device's energy. In real applications, the offloading may span multiple fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Rongfei Fan , Fudong Li , Song Jin , Gongpu Wang , Hai Jiang , Shaohua Wu

This paper presents a non-linear optimization method for trajectory planning of tethered aerial robots. Particularly, the paper addresses the planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) linked to an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 S. Martinez-Rozas , D. Alejo , F. Caballero , L. Merino

As mobile edge computing (MEC) finds widespread use for relieving the computational burden of compute- and interaction-intensive applications on end user devices, understanding the resulting delay and cost performance is drawing significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Yang Cai , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Andreas F. Molisch

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables low-latency and high-bandwidth applications by bringing computation and data storage closer to end-users. Intelligent computing is an important application of MEC, where computing resources are used to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Yapeng Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan