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This paper presents a novel multi-tier UAV-assisted edge computing system designed for low-altitude networks. The system comprises vehicle users, lightweight Low-Tier UAVs (L-UAVs), and High-Tier UAV (H-UAV). L-UAVs function as small-scale…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yufei Ye , Shijian Gao , Xinhu Zheng , Liuqing Yang

The unmanned aerial vehicle assisted multi-access edge computing (UAV-MEC) technology has been widely applied in the sixth-generation era. However, due to the limitations of energy and computing resources in disaster areas, how to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Yafei Guo , Ziye Jia , Lei Zhang , Jia He , Yu Zhang , Qihui Wu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently utilized in multi-access edge computing (MEC) as edge servers. It is desirable to design UAVs' trajectories and user to UAV assignments to ensure satisfactory service to the users and…

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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

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is a promising technology to support real-time vehicular applications, where vehicles offload intensive computation tasks to the nearby VEC server for processing. However, the traditional VEC that relies on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Qiong Wu , Wenhua Wang , Pingyi Fan , Qiang Fan , Jiangzhou Wang , Khaled B. Letaief

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used as network processors in mobile networks, but more recently, UAVs have been used in Mobile Edge Computing as mobile servers. However, there are significant challenges to use UAVs in complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Huan Chang , Yicheng Chen , Baochang Zhang , David Doermann

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology is a promising solution for providing high-quality mobile services to ground users, where a UAV with limited service coverage travels among multiple geographical user locations (e.g., hotspots) for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kai Wang , Xiao Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Jun Tie

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wireless service for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Rui Wang , Kaitao Meng , Deshi Li

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as one of the key technical aspects of the fifth-generation (5G) networks. The integration of MEC with resource-constrained unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could enable flexible resource provisioning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Minghui Liwang , Zhibin Gao , Xianbin Wang

This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless powered mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, where the UAV powers the mobile terminals by wireless power transfer (WPT) and provides computation service for them. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiaoyi Zhou , Liang Huang , Tong Ye , Weiqiang Sun

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technique to improve the computational capacity of smart devices (SDs) in Internet of Things (IoT). However, the performance of MEC is restricted due to its fixed location and limited service…

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This paper presents a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture for vehicular networks. It is considered that the vehicles should complete latency critical computation intensive tasks either locally…

This paper investigates a multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) joint base station-assisted Internet of Vehicles (IoV) task offloading system in dense urban environments. To minimize system delay and energy consumption under strict coupling…

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In this paper, multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled mobile edge computing (MEC), i.e., UAVE is studied, where several UAVs are deployed as flying MEC platform to provide computing resource to ground user equipments (UEs). Compared to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Liang Wang , Peiqiu Huang , Kezhi Wang , Guopeng Zhang , Lei Zhang , Nauman Aslam , Kun Yang

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

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

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

Energy-sharing UAV-UGV systems extend the endurance of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by leveraging Uncrewed Ground Vehicles (UGVs) as mobile charging stations, enabling persistent autonomy in infrastructure-sparse environments. Trajectory…

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