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Multi-access edge computing (MEC)-enabled integrated space-air-ground (SAG) networks have drawn much attention recently, as they can provide communication and computing services to wireless devices in areas that lack terrestrial base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yan Kyaw Tun , György Dán , Yu Min Park , Choong Seon Hong

In the era of the sixth generation (6G) and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), an industrial cyber-physical system (ICPS) drives the proliferation of sensor devices and computing-intensive tasks. To address the limited resources of IIoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Geng Sun , Jiaxu Wu , Zemin Sun , Long He , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Abbas Jamalipour , Shiwen Mao

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

Facing a vast amount of connections, huge performance demands, and the need for reliable connectivity, the sixth generation of communication networks (6G) is envisioned to implement disruptive technologies that jointly spur connectivity,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Robert-Jeron Reifert , Hayssam Dahrouj , Basem Shihada , Aydin Sezgin , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we consider deploying multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance the computation service of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) through collaborative computation among UAVs. In particular, the tasks of different types and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Bin Li , Rongrong Yang , Lei Liu , Celimuge Wu

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based multi-access edge computing (MEC) appears as a popular paradigm to reduce task processing latency. However, the secure offloading is an important issue when occurring aerial eavesdropping. Besides,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Jiahao You , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Han Zhu

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) seamlessly integrates communication and computation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. Different from the existing works that focus on transceiver design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we consider a platform of flying mobile edge computing (F-MEC), where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as equipment providing computation resource, and they enable task offloading from user equipment (UE). We aim to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Liang Wang , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Wei Xu , Nauman Aslam , Arumugam Nallanathan

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 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

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

A Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) scheme with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is proposed in this paper. Unlike existing MEC-WPT schemes that disregard the downlink period for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Xiaoyan Hu , Pengle Wen , Han Xiao , Wenjie Wang , Kai-Kit Wong

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

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

Ubiquity in network coverage is one of the main features of 5G and is expected to be extended to the computing domain in 6G. In order to provide this holistic approach of ubiquity in communication and computation, an integration of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jörg von Mankowski , Emre Durmaz , Arled Papa , Hansini Vijayaraghavan , Wolfgang Kellerer

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

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm to provide flexible computing services close to user devices (UDs). However, meeting the computation-hungry and delay-sensitive demands of UDs faces several challenges,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Geng Sun , Minghua Yuan , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Dong In Kim

With the development of artificial intelligence integrated next-generation communication networks, mobile users (MUs) are increasingly demanding the efficient processing of computation-intensive and latency-sensitive tasks. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Wenchao Liu , Xuhui Zhang , Chunjie Wang , Jinke Ren , Zheng Xing , Bo Yang , Shuqiang Wang , Yanyan Shen

With the explosive increment of computation requirements, the multi-access edge computing (MEC) paradigm appears as an effective mechanism. Besides, as for the Internet of Things (IoT) in disasters or remote areas requiring MEC services,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ziye Jia , Qihui Wu , Chao Dong , Chau Yuen , Zhu Han