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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a pivotal force in reshaping next generation mobile networks. Edge computing holds promise in enabling AI as a service (AIaaS) for prompt decision-making by offloading deep neural network (DNN)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Vahid Pourakbar , Hamed Shah-Mansouri

Driven by the unprecedented high throughput and low latency requirements in next-generation wireless networks, this paper introduces an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled framework in which unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Zhong Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to complement the 5G communication infrastructure in future smart cities. Hot spots easily appear in road intersections, where effective communication among vehicles is challenging. UAVs may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ming Zhu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Anwar Walid

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…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sujunjie Sun , Guopeng Zhang , Haibo Mei , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang

The powerful paradigm of Fog computing is currently receiving major interest, as it provides the possibility to integrate virtualized servers into networks and brings cloud service closer to end devices. To support this distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Jung-yeon Baek , Georges Kaddoum , Sahil Garg , Kuljeet Kaur , Vivianne Gravel

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings connectivity to a massive number of devices that demand energy-efficient solutions to deal with limited battery capacities, uplink-dominant traffic, and channel impairments. In this work, we explore the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Osmel Martínez Rosabal , Onel Alcaraz López , Dian Echevarría Pérez , Mohammad Shehab , Henrique Hilleshein , Hirley Alves

Age-of-information (AoI) and transmission power are crucial performance metrics in low energy wireless networks, where information freshness is of paramount importance. This study examines a power-limited internet of things (IoT) network…

In cloud manufacturing, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can support both product collection and mobile edge computing (MEC). This joint operation forms a hybrid scheduling problem, where physical logistics decisions are coupled with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hanwen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Wei Zhang , Xin Lou , Malcolm Yoke Hean Low

Future wireless networks will need to improve adaptive resource allocation and decision-making to handle the increasing number of intelligent devices. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being explored for their potential in real-time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Felix Obite , Ali Krayani , Atm S. Alam , Lucio Marcenaro , Arumugam Nallanathan , Carlo Regazzoni

For multiple Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles (UAVs) assisted Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) networks, we study the problem of combined computation and communication for user equipments deployed with multi-type tasks. Specifically, we consider that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Bin Li , Rongrong Yang , Lei Liu , Junyi Wang , Ning Zhang , Mianxiong Dong

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used as network processors in mobile networks, but more recently, UAVs have been used in Mobile Edge Computing as mobile servers. However, there are significant challenges to use UAVs in complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Huan Chang , Yicheng Chen , Baochang Zhang , David Doermann

Traditional terrestrial communication infrastructures often fail to collect the timely information from Internet of Thing (IoT) devices in remote areas. To address this challenge, we investigate a Satellite-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Tianhao. Liang , Huahao. Ding , Yuqi. Ping , Bin. Cao , Tingting. Zhang , Qinyu. Zhang

The advent of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) presents the scope for a transformative shift in the domain of urban transportation. However, its widespread adoption and economic viability depends in part on the ability to optimally schedule the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Prithvi Poddar , Steve Paul , Souma Chowdhury

Smart and agile drones are fast becoming ubiquitous at the edge of the cloud. The usage of these drones are constrained by their limited power and compute capability. In this paper, we present a Transfer Learning (TL) based approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Aqeel Anwar , Arijit Raychowdhury

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are integral in various sectors like agriculture, surveillance, and logistics, driven by advancements in 5G. However, existing research lacks a comprehensive approach addressing both data freshness and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Poorvi Joshi , Alakesh Kalita , Mohan Gurusamy

In this paper, a novel framework is proposed to enable a predictive deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as temporary base stations (BSs) to complement ground cellular systems in face of downlink traffic overload. First, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Qianqian Zhang , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Xing Lu , Merouane Debbah , Wangda Zuo

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data collector for the ground sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network lifetime. Specifically, since the UAV can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Cheng Zhan , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) has been deemed a promising paradigm to provide ubiquitous communication and computing services for the Internet of Things (IoT). Besides, by intelligently reflecting the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Xintong Qin , Zhengyu Song , Tianwei Hou , Wenjuan Yu , Jun Wang , Xin Sun

Over the years, significant contributions have been made by the research and industrial sectors to improve wearable devices towards the Internet of Wearable Things (IoWT) paradigm. However, wearables are still facing several challenges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Waleed Bin Qaim , Aleksandr Ometov , Claudia Campolo , Antonella Molinaro , Elena Simona Lohan , Jari Nurmi

Exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to execute tasks is gaining growing popularity recently. To solve the underlying task scheduling problem, the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods demonstrate notable advantage over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xiao Mao , Zhiguang Cao , Mingfeng Fan , Guohua Wu , Witold Pedrycz