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Heavy data load and wide cover range have always been crucial problems for online data processing in internet of things (IoT). Recently, mobile-edge computing (MEC) and unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) have emerged as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Shuo Wan , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

Edge computing is promoted to meet increasing performance needs of data-driven services using computational and storage resources close to the end devices, at the edge of the current network. To achieve higher performance in this new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Klervie Toczé , Simin Nadjm-Tehrani

This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, in which the UAV provides complementary computation resource to the terrestrial MEC system. The UAV processes the received computation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Xianfu Chen , Tao Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang , Mehdi Bennis , Yusheng Ji

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as one of the key technical aspects of the fifth-generation (5G) networks. The integration of MEC with resource-constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could enable flexible resource provisioning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Minghui Liwang , Zhibin Gao , Xianbin Wang

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

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) are two promising techniques to enhance the computation capability and to prolong the operational time of low-power wireless devices that are ubiquitous in Internet of Things.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Fuhui Zhou , Yongpeng Wu , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

Ubiquity in network coverage is one of the main features of 5G and is expected to be extended to the computing domain in 6G. In order to provide this holistic approach of ubiquity in communication and computation, an integration of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jörg von Mankowski , Emre Durmaz , Arled Papa , Hansini Vijayaraghavan , Wolfgang Kellerer

Nowadays, we are witnessing the advent of the Internet of Things (EC) with numerous devices performing interactions between them or with end users. The huge number of devices leads to huge volumes of collected data that demand the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Panagiotis Oikonomou , Anna Karanika , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Kostas Kolomvatsos

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm to provide aerial-terrestrial computing services in close proximity to mobile devices (MDs). However, meeting the demands of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Zemin Sun , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Long He , Shuang Liang , Hongyang Pan , Dusit Niyato , Chau Yuen , Victor C. M. Leung

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been recently considered as means to provide enhanced coverage or relaying services to mobile users (MUs) in wireless systems with limited or no infrastructure. In this paper, a UAV-based mobile cloud…

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

In this paper, we consider deploying multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance the computation service of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) through collaborative computation among UAVs. In particular, the tasks of different types and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Bin Li , Rongrong Yang , Lei Liu , Celimuge Wu

Edge computing is one of the key driving forces to enable Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks. Due to the unprecedented increase in traffic volumes and computation demands of future networks, multi-access (or mobile) edge computing (MEC) is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Mariam Ishtiaq , Nasir Saeed , Muhammad Asif Khan

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a viable platform for sensing and estimation in a wide variety of applications including disaster response, search and rescue, and security monitoring. These sensing UAVs have limited battery and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lorson Blair , Carlos A. Varela , Stacy Patterson

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted multi-access edge computing (MEC) has become one promising solution for energy-constrained devices to meet the computation demand and the stringent delay requirement. In this work, we investigate a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Nway Nway Ei , Madyan Alsenwi , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

The Mobile Network Operator (MNO) must select how to delegate Mobile Device (MD) queries to its Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) server in order to maximize the overall benefit of admitted requests with varying latency needs. Unmanned Aerial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Asrar Ahmed Baktayan , Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Baltah

This paper presents an innovative framework that boosts computing power by utilizing ubiquitous computing power distribution and enabling higher computing node accessibility via adaptive UAV positioning, establishing a UAV-enabled Computing…

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

Extreme edge computing (EEC) refers to the endmost part of edge computing wherein computational tasks and edge services are deployed only on extreme edge devices (EEDs). EEDs are consumer or user-owned devices that offer computational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Mhd Saria Allahham , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad , Hossam Hassanein

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is regarded as a promising technology in the sixth-generation communication. However, the antenna gain is always affected by the environment when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are served as MEC platforms,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Zhuang Ling , Jiahao You , Qihui Wu

The number of satellites, especially those operating in low-earth orbit (LEO), is exploding in recent years. Additionally, the use of COTS hardware into those satellites enables a new paradigm of computing: orbital edge computing (OEC). OEC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Changhao Wu , Yuanchun Li , Mengwei Xu , Chongbin Guo , Zengshan Yin , Weiwei Gao , Chuanxiu Chi