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We consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where an IRS is deployed to assist computation offloading from two users to an access point connected with an edge cloud. For the IRS-aided data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Fasheng Zhou , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as flying base stations (BSs) to leverage the strength of line-of-sight connections and effectively support the coverage and throughput of wireless communication. This paper considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ali A. Nasir , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

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

Wireless charging coupled with computation offloading in edge networks offers a promising solution for realizing power-hungry and computation intensive applications on user devices. We consider a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

This article proposes a novel framework for unmaned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks with massive access capability supported by non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). In order to better understand NOMA enabled UAV networks, three case studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-18 Yuanwei Liu , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Yue Gao , Geoffrey Ye Li , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data collection systems with different multiple access schemes, where a rotary-wing UAV is dispatched to collect data from multiple ground nodes (GNs). Our goal is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Zhiguo Ding

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) becomes a promising paradigm for the development of emerging intelligent transportation systems. Nevertheless, the limited resources and massive transmission demands bring great challenges on implementing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Xincao Xu , Kai Liu , Penglin Dai , Feiyu Jin , Hualing Ren , Choujun Zhan , Songtao Guo

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

It is a big challenge for resource-limited mobile devices (MDs) to execute various complex and energy-consumed mobile applications. Fortunately, as a novel computing paradigm, edge computing (MEC) can provide abundant computing resources to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Binbin Huang , Zhongjin Lia , Peng Tang , Shangguang Wang , Jun Zhao , Haiyang Hua , Wanqing Lia , Victor Chang

A novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based cache-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) framework is proposed. For the purpose of efficiently allocating communication and computation resources to users' computation tasks requests, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-24 Zhong Yang , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system is a prominent concept, where a UAV equipped with a MEC server is deployed to serve a number of terminal devices (TDs) of Internet of Things (IoT) in a finite period.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tiankui Zhang , Yu Xu , Jonathan Loo , Dingcheng Yang , Lin Xiao

Advancements in smart vehicle design have enabled the creation of Internet of Vehicle (IoV) technologies that can utilize the information provided by various sensors and wireless communication to perform complex functionality. Many of these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Afonso Fontes , Igor de L. Ribeiro , Khan Muhammad , Amir H. Gandomi , Gregory Gay , Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque

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

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) emerges recently as a promising solution to relieve resource-limited mobile devices from computation-intensive tasks, which enables devices to offload workloads to nearby MEC servers and improve the quality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zhao Chen , Xiaodong Wang

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

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

With the fast development of mobile edge computing (MEC), there is an increasing demand for running complex applications on the edge. These complex applications can be represented as workflows where task dependencies are explicitly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xuejun Li , Tianxiang Chen , Dong Yuan , Jia Xu , Xiao Liu

Multiple-input multiple-output non-orthogonal multiple access (MIMO-NOMA) cellular network is promising for supporting massive connectivity. This paper exploits low-latency machine learning in the MIMO-NOMA uplink transmission environment,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mian Guo , Chun Shan , Mithun Mukherjee , Jaime Lloret , Quansheng Guan

A deep reinforcement learning technique is presented for task offloading decision-making algorithms for a multi-access edge computing (MEC) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network in a smart farm Internet of Things (IoT) environment.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Anne Catherine Nguyen , Turgay Pamuklu , Aisha Syed , W. Sean Kennedy , Melike Erol-Kantarci