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With an extensive increment of computation demands, the aerial multi-access edge computing (MEC), mainly based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high altitude platforms (HAPs), plays significant roles in future network scenarios. In…

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This paper presents a cooperative multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) approach for unmmaned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. An UAV with computing capability can provide task offlaoding services…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Mintae Kim , Hoon Lee , Sangwon Hwang , Merouane Debbah , Inkyu Lee

Data compression technology is able to reduce data size, which can be applied to lower the cost of task offloading in mobile edge computing (MEC). This paper addresses the practical challenges for robust trajectory and scheduling…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Bin Li , Xiao Zhu , Junyi Wang

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems emerged as a promising solution for providing computation services to mobile users outside of terrestrial infrastructure coverage. As each UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yan Kyaw Tun , Tri Nguyen Dang , Kitae Kim , Madyan Anselwi , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently utilized in multi-access edge computing (MEC) as edge servers. It is desirable to design UAVs' trajectories and user to UAV assignments to ensure satisfactory service to the users and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hamidreza Asadian-Rad , Hossein Soleimani , Shahrokh Farahmand

With the rapid increment of multiple users for data offloading and computation, it is challenging to guarantee the quality of service (QoS) in remote areas. To deal with the challenge, it is promising to combine aerial access networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Guanwang Jiang , Ziye Jia , Lijun He , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Zhu Han

In this paper, we study unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) with the objective to optimize computation offloading with minimum UAV energy consumption. In the considered scenario, a UAV plays the role of an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Mushu Li , Nan Cheng , Jie Gao , Yinlu Wang , Lian Zhao , Xuemin , Shen

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication networks are promising in the fifth and beyond wireless communication systems. In this paper, we shed light on three UAV-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) architectures. Those…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu , Zan Li , Yuhao Wang

This paper investigates the robust and secure task transmission and computation scheme in multi-antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) networks, where the UAV is dual-function, i.e., aerial MEC and aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Weihao Mao , Ke Xiong , Yang Lu , Pingyi Fan , Zhiguo Ding

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technique to improve the computational capacity of smart devices (SDs) in Internet of Things (IoT). However, the performance of MEC is restricted due to its fixed location and limited service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Saichao Liu , Geng Sun , Chuang Zhang , Xuejie Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Dusit Niyato

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

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

To improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices, mobile-edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm by providing computing capabilities in close proximity within a sliced radio access network (RAN), which supports both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Xianfu Chen , Honggang Zhang , Celimuge Wu , Shiwen Mao , Yusheng Ji , Mehdi Bennis

The empowering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively used in providing intelligence such as target tracking. In our field experiments, a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) is deployed at the UAV to identify a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Chau Yuen , Lijun Qian

To support the running of human-centric metaverse applications on mobile devices, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing (WPMEC) is promising to compensate for limited computational capabilities and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Xiaojie Wang , Jiameng Li , Zhaolong Ning , Qingyang Song , Lei Guo , Abbas Jamalipour

This paper presents a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture for vehicular networks. It is considered that the vehicles should complete latency critical computation intensive tasks either locally…

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

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

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

Considering the user mobility and unpredictable mobile edge computing (MEC) environments, this paper studies the intelligent task offloading problem in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled MEC with the assistance of digital twin (DT). We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Bin Li , Yufeng Liu , Ling Tan , Heng Pan , Yan Zhang