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This work lies at the intersection of two cutting edge technologies envisioned to proliferate in future 6G wireless systems: Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). While the former will bring a…

In this paper, simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is investigated in the multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) system to improve the computation rate. Compared with traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Zhenrong Liu , Zongze Li , Miaowen Wen , Yi Gong , Yik-Chung Wu

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

With the rapid advances in programmable materials, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have become a pivotal technology for future wireless communications. The simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yujie Huang , Haibin Wan , Xiangcheng Li , Tuanfa Qin , Yun Li , Jun Li , Wen Chen

In this paper, a novel concept called simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) is introduced into the wireless-powered mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to improve the efficiency of energy transfer and task offloading.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Xintong Qin , Zhengyu Song , Tianwei Hou , Wenjuan Yu , Jun Wang , Xin Sun

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as an extraordinarily promising technology to solve the blockage problem of millimeter wave (mmWave) communications owing to its capable of establishing a reconfigurable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yuqian Zhu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu , Zheng Chang , Yulin Hu

With the high flexibility of supporting resource-intensive and time-sensitive applications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed as an innovational paradigm to support the mobile users (MUs). As a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Wenshuai Liu , Bin Li , Wancheng Xie , Yueyue Dai , Zesong Fei

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is an emerging technology that enables vehicles to perform high-intensity tasks by executing tasks locally or offloading them to nearby edge devices. However, obstacles such as buildings may degrade the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kangwei Qi , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Nan Cheng , Qiang Fan , Jiangzhou Wang

The low-altitude economy (LAE), driven by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other aircraft, has revolutionized fields such as transportation, agriculture, and environmental monitoring. In the upcoming six-generation (6G) era, UAV-assisted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Geng Sun , Weilong Ma , Jiahui Li , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao

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, we propose a novel algorithm for energy-efficient, low-latency dynamic mobile edge computing (MEC), in the context of beyond 5G networks endowed with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). In our setting, new computing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

Given the proliferation of wireless sensors and smart mobile devices, an explosive escalation of the volume of data is anticipated. However, restricted by their limited physical sizes and low manufacturing costs, these wireless devices tend…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-23 Tong Bai , Cunhua Pan , Chao Han , Lajos Hanzo

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

The integration of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology in 6G Internet of Things (IoT) networks faces significant challenges in remote areas and disaster scenarios where ground infrastructure is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yue Chen , Hui Kang , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Boxiong Wang , Jiacheng Wang , Cong Liang , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems provide a new paradigm for reconfigurable and flexible wireless communications. To enable more energy efficient and spectrum efficient IRS assisted UAV…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Yiheng Wang

In this letter, we propose an energy-efficient design for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) communication system with nonlinear energy harvesting (EH) and UAV jitter. A joint optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mahmoud M. Salim , Khaled M. Rabie , Ali H. Muqaibel

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology has gained significant attention due to its ability to enhance the performance of wireless communication systems. The main advantage of RIS is that it can be strategically placed in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Hajar El Hammouti , Adnane Saoud , Asma Ennahkami , El Houcine Bergou

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is an emerging technology with significant potential in the field of internet of vehicles (IoV), enabling vehicles to perform intensive computational tasks locally or offload them to nearby edge devices.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Kangwei Qi , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, the novel simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which enables full-space coverage on users located on both sides of the surface, is investigated in the multi-user mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zhenrong Liu , Zongze Li , Miaowen Wen , Yi Gong , Yik-Chung Wu

We consider the optimization of distributed resource scheduling to minimize the sum of task latency and energy consumption for all the Internet of things devices (IoTDs) in a large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) system. To address this…

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