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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

To improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices, mobile-edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm by providing computing capabilities within radio access networks in close proximity. Nevertheless, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xianfu Chen , Honggang Zhang , Celimuge Wu , Shiwen Mao , Yusheng Ji , Mehdi Bennis

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

This paper investigates the multi-UAV multi-task coordination problem in infrastructure-less emergency scenarios, where UAVs collaboratively are required to jointly perform aerial image acquisition and ground-user communication. To tackle…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xindi Wang , Haining Li , Tao Ding , Bolin Cai

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is essential for next-generation mobile network applications that prioritize various performance metrics, including delays and energy efficiency. However, conventional single-objective scheduling solutions cannot…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Ning Yang , Junrui Wen , Meng Zhang , Ming Tang

With the continuous growth of mobile data and the unprecedented demand for computing power, resource-constrained edge devices cannot effectively meet the requirements of Internet of Things (IoT) applications and Deep Neural Network (DNN)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Guanjin Qu , Huaming Wu

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

In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs to accelerate data transmissions from ground users (GUs) to a remote base station (BS) via the UAVs' relay communications. The UAVs' intermittent information exchanges typically result in delays in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Che Chen , Lanhua Li , Shimin Gong , Yu Zhao , Yuming Fang , Dusit Niyato

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

In mobile edge computing systems, an edge node may have a high load when a large number of mobile devices offload their tasks to it. Those offloaded tasks may experience large processing delay or even be dropped when their deadlines expire.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Ming Tang , Vincent W. S. Wong

While mobile edge computing (MEC) alleviates the computation and power limitations of mobile devices, additional latency is incurred when offloading tasks to remote MEC servers. In this work, the power-delay tradeoff in the context of task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , H. Vincent Poor

Opportunistic computation offloading is an effective method to improve the computation performance of mobile-edge computing (MEC) networks under dynamic edge environment. In this paper, we consider a multi-user MEC network with time-varying…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Suzhi Bi , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

In the era of 5G mobile communication, there has been a significant surge in research focused on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and mobile edge computing technology. UAVs can serve as intelligent servers in edge computing environments,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengrong Song , Chuan Ma , Ming Ding , Howard H. Yang , Yuwen Qian , Xiangwei Zhou

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) has been deemed a promising paradigm to provide ubiquitous communication and computing services for the Internet of Things (IoT). Besides, by intelligently reflecting the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Xintong Qin , Zhengyu Song , Tianwei Hou , Wenjuan Yu , Jun Wang , Xin Sun

Driven by the visions of Internet of Things (IoT), there is an ever-increasing demand for computation resources of IoT users to support diverse applications. Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been deemed a promising solution to settle the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Zhengyu Song , Xintong Qin , Yuanyuan Hao , Tianwei Hou , Jun Wang , Xin Sun

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm for real-time applications with intensive computational needs (e.g., autonomous driving), as it can reduce the processing delay. In this work, we focus on the timeliness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Lyudong Jin , Ming Tang , Meng Zhang , Hao Wang

In this paper, a novel machine learning (ML) framework is proposed for enabling a predictive, efficient deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), acting as aerial base stations (BSs), to provide on-demand wireless service to cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-02 Qianqian Zhang , Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising paradigm to reduce service latency for data processing in the Internet of Things, by provisioning computing resources at the network edge. In this work, we jointly optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Laha Ale , Scott A. King , Ning Zhang , Abdul Rahman Sattar , Janahan Skandaraniyam

In recent years, the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has increased dramatically. UAVs can accomplish complex or dangerous tasks in a reliable and cost-effective way but are still limited by power consumption problems, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Wamiq Raza , Anas Osman , Francesco Ferrini , Francesco De Natale

The imminent rise of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is revolutionizing the future of transport. The Vehicular Fog Computing (VFC) paradigm has emerged to alleviate the load of compute-intensive and delay-sensitive AV programs via task offloading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mohammad Parsa Toopchinezhad , Mahmood Ahmadi