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This letter investigates computing-accessibility-aware cooperative 3D deployment of multiple UAVs for task completion enhancement, termed CA3D. We first provide a theoretical analysis showing that computing accessibility is the key…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yiqin Deng , Zihan Fang , Yijie Wang , Qingxiao Huang , Junhui Gao , Qianyao Ren , Yuguang Fang

Edge computing facilitates low-latency services at the network's edge by distributing computation, communication, and storage resources within the geographic proximity of mobile and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The recent advancement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Xiaoyu Xia , Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah , Muhammad Ali Babar

This letter considers the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled relay system to deliver command information under ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) requirements. We aim to jointly optimize the blocklength allocation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-17 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Yansha Deng , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

With the emergence of compute-intensive and delay-sensitive applications in vehicular networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising complement for vehicular edge computing due to the high mobility and flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hongbao Li , Ziye Jia , Sijie He , Kun Guo , Qihui Wu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in the last few years owing to their ability to cover large areas and access difficult and hazardous target zones, which is not the case of traditional systems relying on direct…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mohammed Jouhari , Abdulla Al-Ali , Emna Baccour , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Mohsen Guizani , Mounir Hamdi

In this paper, we focus on a typical cooperative communication system with one pair of source and destination, where a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying from a start location to an end location serves as a mobile relay. To efficiently…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sixing Yin , Jing Tan , Lihua Li

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted mobile edge computing systems have been exploited by researchers as a promising solution for providing computation services to mobile users outside of terrestrial infrastructure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Loc X. Nguyen , Yan Kyaw Tun , Tri Nguyen Dang , Yu Min Park , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

This paper presents a distributed approach to provide persistent coverage of an arbitrarily shaped area using heterogeneous coverage of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and to recover from simultaneous failures of multiple UAVs.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Sachin Shriwastav , Zhuoyuan Song

With the development of smart vehicles, computing-intensive tasks are widely and rapidly generated. To alleviate the burden of on-board CPU, connected vehicles can offload tasks to or make request from nearby edge server thanks to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Yuke Zheng , Bo Yang , Cailian Chen

Efficient exploration of unknown environments is crucial for autonomous robots, especially in confined and large-scale scenarios with limited communication. To address this challenge, we propose a collaborative exploration framework for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Angelos Zacharia , Mihir Dharmadhikari , Kostas Alexis

We propose a novel hybrid system (both hardware and software) of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) carrying a miniature Unmanned Ground Vehicle (miniUGV) to perform a complex search and manipulation task. This system leverages heterogeneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Durgakant Pushp , Swapnil Kalhapure , Kaushik Das , Lantao Liu

In the event of natural or man-made disasters in an urban environment, such as fires, floods, and earthquakes, a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can rapidly sweep and provide coverage to monitor the area of interest and locate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wai Lun Leong , Jiawei Cao , Rodney Teo

Due to its agile maneuverability, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have shown great promise for ondemand communications. In practice, UAV-aided aerial base stations are not separate. Instead, they rely on existing satellites/terrestrial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xiangling Li , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Ning Ge

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively utilized to provide wireless connectivity in rural and under-developed areas, enhance network capacity and provide support for peaks or unexpected surges in user demand, mainly due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Anousheh Gholami , Nariman Torkzaban , John S. Baras , Chrysa Papagianni

This paper presents a decentralized, collision-free framework for path following guidance of multiple uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), while maintaining uniform spacing along a reference path. A vector field-based guidance law is employed…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Gautam Kumar , Amit Shivam , Ashwini Ratnoo

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in many different settings has provided various solutions and strategies for networking paradigms. Therefore, it reduces the complexity of the developments for the existing problems, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Baris Yamansavascilar , Atay Ozgovde , Cem Ersoy

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture, in which a UAV roaming around the area may serve as a computing server to help user equipment (UEs) compute their tasks or act as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-18 Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang , Zhongbin Zheng

A single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has limited computing resources and battery capacity, making it difficult to handle computationally intensive tasks such as the convolution operations in many deep learning applications. UAV-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Bingnan Zhou , Junfei Xie , Baoqian Wang

In this paper, multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled mobile edge computing (MEC), i.e., UAVE is studied, where several UAVs are deployed as flying MEC platform to provide computing resource to ground user equipments (UEs). Compared to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Liang Wang , Peiqiu Huang , Kezhi Wang , Guopeng Zhang , Lei Zhang , Nauman Aslam , Kun Yang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted significant interest recently in assisting wireless communication due to their high maneuverability, flexible deployment, and low cost. This paper considers a multi-UAV enabled wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Qingqing Wu , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang