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Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as the enabling platform for a variety of promising applications, such as smart transportation and smart city, where massive devices are interconnected for data collection and processing. These IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Laha Ale , Ning Zhang , Xiaojie Fang , Xianfu Chen , Shaohua Wu , Longzhuang Li

The growth in artificial intelligence (AI) technology has attracted substantial interests in latency-aware task offloading of mobile edge computing (MEC)-namely, minimizing service latency. Additionally, the use of MEC systems poses an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Minwoo Kim , Jonggyu Jang , Youngchol Choi , Hyun Jong Yang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides computational services at the edge of networks by offloading tasks from user equipments (UEs). This letter employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as the edge computing server to execute offloaded tasks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yuwen Qian , Feifei Wang , Jun Li , Long Shi , Kui Cai , Feng Shu

The development of mobile services has impacted a variety of computation-intensive and time-sensitive applications, such as recommendation systems and daily payment methods. However, computing task competition involving limited resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Honghao Gao , Xuejie Wang , Xiaojin Ma , Wei Wei , Shahid Mumtaz

This paper introduces a novel multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) scheme facilitated by the simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) and the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Unlike existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Weile Zhang , Wenjie Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang

The Mobile Network Operator (MNO) must select how to delegate Mobile Device (MD) queries to its Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) server in order to maximize the overall benefit of admitted requests with varying latency needs. Unmanned Aerial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Asrar Ahmed Baktayan , Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Baltah

Massive internet of things microservices require integrating renewable energy harvesting into mobile edge computing (MEC) for sustainable eScience infrastructures. Spatiotemporal mismatches between stochastic task arrivals and intermittent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mubshra Zulfiqar , Muhammad Ayzed Mirza , Basit Qureshi

The Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) framework is a crucial foundation for future networks, where satellites and aerial nodes assist in computational task offloading. The low-altitude economy, leveraging the flexibility and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhiying Wang , Gang Sun , Yuhui Wang , Hongfang Yu , Dusit Niyato

Task offloading to mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a key technology to alleviate the computation workloads of mobile devices and decrease service latency for the computation-intensive applications. Device battery consumption is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Siqi Zhang , Na Yi , Yi Ma

This paper considers a wireless powered multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a multi-antenna access point (AP) employs the radio-frequency (RF) signal based wireless power transfer (WPT) to charge a number of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Feng Wang , Hong Xing , Jie Xu

In this article, we report on the efficiency and effectiveness of multiagent reinforcement learning methods (MARL) for the computation of flight delays to resolve congestion problems in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) domain. Specifically,…

Being an up-and-coming application scenario of mobile edge computing (MEC), the post-disaster rescue suffers multitudinous computing-intensive tasks but unstably guaranteed network connectivity. In rescue environments, quality of service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yiwei Tang , Hualong Huang , Wenhan Zhan , Geyong Min , Zhekai Duan , Yuchuan Lei

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with mobile edge computing (MEC) and Internet of Things (IoT) technology in smart farms is pivotal for efficient resource management and enhanced agricultural productivity sustainably. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Tingnan Bao , Aisha Syed , William Sean Kennedy , Melike Erol-Kantarci

In this paper, we consider a hybrid mobile edge computing (H-MEC) platform, which includes ground stations (GSs), ground vehicles (GVs) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs), all with mobile edge cloud installed to enable user equipments (UEs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang , Li Dong , Cunhua Pan , Wei Xu , Kun Yang

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

Edge computing is deemed a promising technique to execute latency-sensitive applications by offloading computation-intensive tasks to edge servers. Extensive research has been conducted in the field of end-device to edge server task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiang Li , Mustafa Abdallah , Yuan-Yao Lou , Mung Chiang , Kwang Taik Kim , Saurabh Bagchi

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is regarded as a promising technology in the sixth-generation communication. However, the antenna gain is always affected by the environment when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are served as MEC platforms,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Zhuang Ling , Jiahao You , Qihui Wu

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Twin (DT) is envisioned to empower various areas as a bridge between physical objects and the digital world. Through virtualization and simulation techniques, multiple functions can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Ziru Zhang , Xuling Zhang , Guangzhi Zhu , Yuyang Wang , Pan Hui

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables rich services in close proximity to the end users to provide high quality of experience (QoE) and contributes to energy conservation compared with local computing, but results in increased communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mingxiong Zhao , Jun-Jie Yu , Wen-Tao Li , Di Liu , Shaowen Yao , Wei Feng , Changyang She , Tony Q. S. Quek

In the context of 6G ubiquitous connectivity, the space-air-ground-sea integrated network (SAGSIN) emerges as a new paradigm to provide critical services for resource-limited ocean environments. To realize this paradigm efficiently, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yufei Ye , Shijian Gao , Xinhu Zheng , Liuqing Yang