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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are recognized as a promising candidate for the multi-access edge computing (MEC) in the future sixth generation communication networks. However, the aerial eavesdropping UAVs (EUAVs) pose a significant…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Can Cui , ZIye Jia , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu

This paper presents a novel multi-tier UAV-assisted edge computing system designed for low-altitude networks. The system comprises vehicle users, lightweight Low-Tier UAVs (L-UAVs), and High-Tier UAV (H-UAV). L-UAVs function as small-scale…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yufei Ye , Shijian Gao , Xinhu Zheng , Liuqing Yang

Effective solutions for intelligent data collection in terrestrial cellular networks are crucial, especially in the context of Internet of Things applications. The limited spectrum and coverage area of terrestrial base stations pose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Abhishek Mondal , Deepak Mishra , Ganesh Prasad , George C. Alexandropoulos , Azzam Alnahari , Riku Jantti

With the fast development of mobile edge computing (MEC), there is an increasing demand for running complex applications on the edge. These complex applications can be represented as workflows where task dependencies are explicitly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xuejun Li , Tianxiang Chen , Dong Yuan , Jia Xu , Xiao Liu

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network can serve as an aerial relay to periodically receive packets from macro base stations (BSs). Severe packet loss may happen especially when UAVs have bad wireless connections to a BS. In this paper, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Hao Song , Lingjia Liu , Ananth Balasubramanian

A novel framework is proposed for cellular offloading with the aid of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), while the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique is employed at each UAV to further improve the spectrum efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ruikang Zhong , Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen

Mobile edge computing (MEC) technology can reduce user latency and energy consumption by offloading computationally intensive tasks to the edge servers. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hongjiang Lei , Mingxu Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan

In this paper, the optimal deployment of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acting as flying base stations is investigated. Considering the downlink scenario, the goal is to minimize the total required transmit power of UAVs while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm to accommodate the increasingly prosperous delay-sensitive and computation-intensive applications in 5G systems. To achieve optimum computation performance in a dynamic MEC environment,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xian Li , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

This work describes the orchestration of a fleet of rotary-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for harvesting prioritized traffic from random distributions of heterogeneous users with Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) capabilities. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Bharath Keshavamurthy , Nicolo Michelusi

This article presents a novel coordination and task-planning framework to enable the simultaneous conflict-free collaboration of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for aerial 3D printing. The proposed framework formulates an…

This article investigates the energy efficiency issue in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enhanced Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, where a mobile unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is exploited as a flying base station to collect data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Jingjing Zhao , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu

Modern-day cars are equipped with numerous cameras and sensors, typically integrated with advanced decision-control systems that enable the vehicle to perceive its surroundings and navigate autonomously. Efficient processing of data from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Suvarthi Sarkar , Aditya Trivedi , Ritish Bansal , Aryabartta Sahu

This paper is concerned with the resource allocation in a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided network for providing enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services for user equipments. Different from most of the existing network resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xing Xi , Xianbin Cao , Peng Yang , Jingxuan Chen , Dapeng Wu

Integrated communication and sensing, which can make full use of the limited spectrum resources to perform communication and sensing tasks simultaneously, is an up-and-coming technology in wireless communication networks. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hongjiang Lei , Congke Jiang , Ki-Hong Park , Mohamed A. Aboulhassan , Sen Zhou , Gaofeng Pan

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication is of crucial importance for diverse practical applications. However, it is susceptible to the severe spectrum scarcity problem and interference since it operates in the unlicensed spectrum band.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Rui Ding , Fuhui Zhou , Yuben Qu , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we propose an over-the-air (OTA)-based approach for distributed matrix-vector multiplications in the context of distributed machine learning (DML). Thanks to OTA computation, the column-wise partitioning of a large matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jinho Choi

This paper investigates a cognitive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled Internet of Things (IoT) network, where secondary/cognitive IoT devices upload their data to the UAV hub following a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) protocol in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Na Tang

Vehicular cloud computing (VCC) is proposed to effectively utilize and share the computing and storage resources on vehicles. However, due to the mobility of vehicles, the network topology, the wireless channel states and the available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Yuxuan Sun , Xueying Guo , Sheng Zhou , Zhiyuan Jiang , Xin Liu , Zhisheng Niu

Mobile cloud computing relieves the tension between compute-intensive mobile applications and battery-constrained mobile devices by enabling the offloading of computing tasks from mobiles to a remote processors. This paper considers a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Seongah Jeong , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang