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With the mass deployment of computing-intensive applications and delay-sensitive applications on end devices, only adequate computing resources can meet differentiated services' delay requirements. By offloading tasks to cloud servers or…

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In fifth generation (5G) and beyond Internet of Things (IoT), it becomes increasingly important to serve a massive number of IoT devices outside the coverage of terrestrial cellular networks. Due to their own limitations, unmanned aerial…

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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…

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In Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) systems, UAVs can carry edge servers to help ground user equipment (UEs) offloading their computing tasks to the UAVs for execution. This paper aims to minimize the total…

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Edge computing has been an efficient way to provide prompt and near-data computing services for resource-and-delay sensitive IoT applications via computation offloading. Effective computation offloading strategies need to comprehensively…

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In this paper, a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) mobile edge computing system is studied in which the multiple UAVs are served by terrestrial base station (TBS) for computation task offloading. Our goal is to minimize the…

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The development of 6G networks brings an increasing variety of data services, which motivates the hybrid computation paradigm that coordinates the over-the-air computation (AirComp) and edge computing for diverse and effective data…

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