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Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a cost-effective paradigm to enhance the computing capability of hardware-constrained wireless devices (WDs). In this paper, we first consider a two-user MEC network, where each WD has a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Meixia Tao

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enhanced multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks are investigated. A new transmission framework is proposed, where multiple UAV-mounted base stations employ…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , H. Vincent Poor

Smart Internet of Vehicles (IoV) as a promising application in Internet of Things (IoT) emerges with the development of the fifth generation mobile communication (5G). Nevertheless, the heterogeneous requirements of sufficient battery…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Jiafei Fu , Pengcheng Zhu , Jingyu Hua , Jiamin Li , Jiangang Wen

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) and data collection (DC) have been popular research issues. Different from existing works that consider MEC and DC scenarios separately, this paper investigates a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Boxiong Wang , Hui Kang , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered as an efficient method to relieve the computation burden of mobile devices. In order to reduce the energy consumption and time delay of mobile devices (MDs) in MEC, multiple users multiple input and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Changfeng Ding , Jun-Bo Wang , Ming Cheng , Chuanwen Chang , Jin-Yuan Wang , Min Lin

While low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) based on uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer high mobility, flexibility, and coverage for urban communications, they face severe signal attenuation in dense environments due to obstructions. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xinyue Liang , Hui Kang , Junwei Che , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enhance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-assisted communication by extending coverage, improving efficiency, and enabling adaptive beamforming. This paper investigates a multiple-input single-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mahmoud M. Salim , Khaled M. Rabie , Ali H. Muqaibel

The substantial growth in wireless data traffic, and the emergence of delay-sensitive application/services requiring ultra-low latency, has resulted into a new Mobile Network (MN) design paradigm called Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Thembelihle Dlamini

This paper proposes a distributed massive multiple input multiple-output (DM-MIMO) aided multi-tier vehicular edge computing (VEC) system. In particular, each vehicle terminal (VT) offloads its computational task to the roadside unit (RSU)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Yixin Liu , Shaoling Liang , Kunlun Wang , Wen Chen , Yonghui Li , George K. Karagiannidis

Utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with edge server to assist terrestrial mobile edge computing (MEC) has attracted tremendous attention. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art schemes based on deterministic optimizations or single-objective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yang Huang , Miaomiao Dong , Yijie Mao , Wenqiang Liu , Zhen Gao

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology in the 5G era. It is deemed an effective paradigm to support computation-intensive and delay critical applications even at energy-constrained and computation-limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Han Hu , Weiwei Song , Qun Wang , Rose Qingyang Hu , Hongbo Zhu

In this paper, we propose a novel wireless architecture, mounted on a high-altitude aerial platform, which is enabled by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). By installing RIS on the aerial platform, rich line-of-sight and full-area…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Hong-Bae Jeon , Sung-Ho Park , Jaedon Park , Kaibin Huang , Chan-Byoung Chae

Mobile edge computing (MEC) and terahertz (THz)enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems are gaining significant attention for improving user service delays in future mobile networks. This article introduces a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Heekang Song , Hyowoon Seo , Wan Choi

This paper studies a wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system with fluctuating channels and dynamic task arrivals over time. We jointly optimize the transmission energy allocation at the energy transmitter (ET) for WPT and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Shuguang Cui

This paper focuses on enhancing the energy efficiency (EE) of a cooperative network that features a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operating at terahertz (THz) frequencies and equipped with holographic surfaces to improve network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Yifei Song , Jalal Jalali , Yanyu Qin , Mostafa Darabi , Filip Lemic , Natasha Devroye

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

To enhance the performance of aerial-ground networks, this paper proposes an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework for multi-UAV systems. In our model, ground base stations (BSs) cooperatively serve multiple unmanned aerial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Fangzhi Li , Zhichu Ren , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jing Jin , Qixing Wang , Jiangzhou Wang

The concept of multi-access edge computing (MEC) has been recently introduced to supplement cloud computing by deploying MEC servers to the network edge so as to reduce the network delay and alleviate the load on cloud data centers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Anselme Ndikumana , Nguyen H. Tran , Tai Manh Ho , Zhu Han , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , Choong Seon Hong

An emerging technology to enhance the spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of wireless communication systems is reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which is shown to be very powerful in single-carrier systems. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Aydin Sezgin , Eduard Jorswieck

With the rapid development of vehicular networks, various applications that require high computation resources have emerged. To efficiently execute these applications, vehicular edge computing (VEC) can be employed. VEC offloads the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Youngsu Jang , Jinyeop Na , Seongah Jeong , Joonhyuk Kang