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Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology that provides low-latency processing capabilities. To optimize the network performance in a MEC system, an efficient routing path between a user and a MEC host is essential. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Annisa Sarah , Rosario G. Garroppo , Gianfranco Nencioni

Owing to the controlling flexibility and cost-effectiveness, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to serve as flying base stations (BSs) in the air-ground integrated network. By exploiting the mobility of UAVs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Xuezhen Yan , Xuming Fang , Cailian Deng , Xianbin Wang

Driven by the unprecedented high throughput and low latency requirements in next-generation wireless networks, this paper introduces an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled framework in which unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Zhong Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

The increasing deployment of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) require computational support and coverage in applications such as maritime search and rescue. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can offer low-cost, flexible aerial services, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jiahao You , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Zhu Han

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) have been recognized as promising techniques in the Internet of Things (IoT) era to provide massive low-power wireless devices with enhanced computation capability and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Xin Wang , Shuguang Cui

The emergence of 5G networks has enabled the deployment of a two-tier edge and vehicular-fog network. It comprises Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Vehicular-Fogs (VFs), strategically positioned closer to Internet of Things (IoT)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Frezer Guteta Wakgra , Binayak Kar , Seifu Birhanu Tadele , Shan-Hsiang Shen , Asif Uddin Khan

The Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) system located close to the client allows mobile smart devices to offload their computations onto edge servers, enabling them to benefit from low-latency computing services. Both cloud service providers and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yanheng Guo , Yan Zhang , Linjie Wu , Mengxia Li , Xingjuan Cai , Jinjun Chen

In recent years, cloud and edge architectures have gained tremendous focus for offloading computationally heavy applications. From machine learning and Internet of Thing (IOT) to industrial procedures and robotics, cloud computing have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Achilleas Santi Seisa , Sumeet Gajanan Satpute , George Nikolakopoulos

Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing (WP-MEC) integrates mobile edge computing (MEC) with wireless power transfer (WPT) to simultaneously extend the operational lifetime and enhance the computational capability of wireless devices (WDs).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xingqiu He , Chaoqun You , Yuzhi Yang , Zihan Chen , Yuhang Shen , Tony Q. S. Quek , Yue Gao

Efficient data processing and computation are essential for the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) to empower various applications, which yet can be significantly bottlenecked by the limited energy capacity and computation capability of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Xiao Tang , Hongrui Zhang , Ruonan Zhang , Deyun Zhou , Yan Zhang , Zhu Han

Future networks (including 6G) are poised to accelerate the realisation of Internet of Everything. However, it will result in a high demand for computing resources to support new services. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yuelin Liu , Haiyuan Li , Xenofon Vasilakos , Rasheed Hussain , Dimitra Simeonidou

Recent advancements in 6G systems signal a leap towards universal connectivity and ultra-reliable, low-latency communications for real-time data devices. Yet, these advancements encounter obstacles such as limited device battery life and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Asad Mahmood , Thang X. Vu , Wali Ullah Khan , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Benefiting from the fusion of communication and intelligent technologies, network-enabled robots have become important to support future machine-assisted and unmanned applications. To provide high-quality services for robots in wide areas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Peng Wei , Wei Feng , Yanmin Wang , Yunfei Chen , Ning Ge , Cheng-Xiang Wang

One promising approach to address the supply-demand mismatch between the terrestrial infrastructure and the temporary and/or unexpected traffic demands is to leverage the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies. Motivated by the recent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yanjie Dong , Md. Zoheb Hassan , Julian Cheng , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Victor C. M. Leung

In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs coordinated by a base station (BS) to help the ground users (GUs) to offload their sensing data. Different UAVs can adapt their trajectories and network formation to expedite data transmissions via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shimin Gong , Meng Wang , Bo Gu , Wenjie Zhang , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

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

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

As mobile edge computing (MEC) finds widespread use for relieving the computational burden of compute- and interaction-intensive applications on end user devices, understanding the resulting delay and cost performance is drawing significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Yang Cai , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Andreas F. Molisch

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) are promising technologies in 5G/6G wireless communications, while there are several challenges about UAV power allocation and scheduling to enhance the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Hongyang Pan , Yanheng Liu , Geng Sun , Junsong Fan , Shuang Liang , Chau Yuen