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In disaster scenarios, conventional terrestrial multi-access edge computing (MEC) paradigms, which rely on ground infrastructure, may become unavailable due to infrastructure damage. With high-probability line-of-sight (LoS) communication,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Long He , Geng Sun , Zemin Sun , Qingqing Wu , Jiawen Kang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Victor C. M. Leung

Mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled air-ground networks are a key component of 6G, employing aerial base stations (ABSs) such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) to provide dynamic services to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Muhammet Hevesli , Abegaz Mohammed Seid , Aiman Erbad , Mohamed Abdallah

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 propose an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled low-altitude multi-access edge computing (MEC) architecture, where an aerial MEC server cooperates with a terrestrial MEC server to provide computing services, while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yixian Wang , Geng Sun , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Daxin Tian , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao

The integration of satellite and autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) communications has become essential for the scenarios requiring both wide coverage and rapid deployment, particularly in remote or disaster-stricken areas where the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Boxiong Wang , Hui Kang , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) addresses computational and battery limitations in devices by allowing them to offload computation tasks. To overcome the difficulties in establishing line-of-sight connections, integrating unmanned aerial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Pyae Sone Aung , Loc X. Nguyen , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to meet the increasing demands and computing limitations of complex Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, implementing MEC in urban environments can be challenging due to factors…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Subhrajit Barick , Chetna Singhal

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

Multi-access-Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising solution for computationally demanding rigorous applications, that can meet 6G network service requirements. However, edge servers incur high computation costs during task processing.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Asad Aftab , Semeen Rehman

By taking full advantage of Computing, Communication and Caching (3C) resources at the network edge, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is envisioned as one of the key enablers for the next generation networks. However, current fixed-location MEC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang , Li Dong , Cunhua Pan , Wei Xu , Kun Yang

Multi-connectivity involves dynamic cluster formation among distributed access points (APs) and coordinated resource allocation from these APs, highlighting the need for efficient mobility management strategies for users with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Irshad A. Meer , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Mustafa Ozger , Dominic Schupke , H. Vincent Poor , Cicek Cavdar

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is seen as a vital component of forthcoming 6G wireless networks, aiming to support emerging applications that demand high service reliability and low latency. However, ensuring the ultra-reliable and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Arian Ahmadi , Anders Høst-Madsen , Zixiang Xiong

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication technology is regarded as an efficient and effective solution for some special application scenarios where existing terrestrial infrastructures are overloaded to provide reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jinjing Wang , Xindi Wang

A novel framework is proposed for quality of experience (QoE)-driven deployment and dynamic movement of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The problem of joint non-convex three-dimensional (3D) deployment and dynamic movement of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-12 Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen

The continuous evolution of future mobile communication systems is heading towards the integration of communication and computing, with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) emerging as a crucial means of implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Xinyang Du , Xuming Fang

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

The increasing complexity of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has led to significant interest in computational offloading to external infrastructures such as edge servers, vehicular nodes, and UAVs. These dynamic and heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ashab Uddin , Ahmed Hamdi Sakr , Ning Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can enhance the performance of cellular networks, due to their high mobility and efficient deployment. In this paper, we present a first study on how the user mobility affects the UAVs' trajectories of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yao Tang , Man Hon Cheung , Tat-Ming Lok

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

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as the enabling platform for a variety of promising applications, such as smart transportation and smart city, where massive devices are interconnected for data collection and processing. These IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Laha Ale , Ning Zhang , Xiaojie Fang , Xianfu Chen , Shaohua Wu , Longzhuang Li