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Incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) in Internet of Things (IoT) enables resource-limited IoT devices to offload their computation tasks to a nearby edge server. In this paper, we investigate an IoT system assisted by the MEC technique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Saman Atapattu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) aims to extend cloud service to the network edge to reduce network traffic and service latency. A fundamental problem in MEC is how to efficiently offload heterogeneous tasks of mobile applications from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jin Wang , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Albert Y. Zomaya , Nektarios Georgalas

Incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) in the Internet of Things (IoT) enables resource-limited IoT devices to offload their computation tasks to a nearby edge server. In this paper, we investigate an IoT system assisted by the MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Saman Atapattu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

In this paper, we investigate a computing task scheduling problem in space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) for delay-oriented Internet of Things (IoT) services. In the considered scenario, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) collects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Conghao Zhou , Wen Wu , Hongli He , Peng Yang , Feng Lyu , Nan Cheng , Xuemin , Shen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are recognized as a promising candidate for the multi-access edge computing (MEC) in the future sixth generation communication networks. However, the aerial eavesdropping UAVs (EUAVs) pose a significant…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Can Cui , ZIye Jia , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu

The integration of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology in 6G Internet of Things (IoT) networks faces significant challenges in remote areas and disaster scenarios where ground infrastructure is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yue Chen , Hui Kang , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Boxiong Wang , Jiacheng Wang , Cong Liang , Shuang Liang , Dusit Niyato

The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based multi-access edge computing (MEC) appears as a popular paradigm to reduce task processing latency. However, the secure offloading is an important issue when occurring aerial eavesdropping. Besides,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Jiahao You , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Han Zhu

This paper proposes a novel multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) framework, where the computing tasks of terminal devices (TDs) can be decomposed into serial or parallel sub-tasks and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhenyu Zhao , Xiaoxia Xu , Tiankui Zhang , Junjie Li , Yuanwei Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a viable platform for sensing and estimation in a wide variety of applications including disaster response, search and rescue, and security monitoring. These sensing UAVs have limited battery and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lorson Blair , Carlos A. Varela , Stacy Patterson

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables low-latency and high-bandwidth applications by bringing computation and data storage closer to end-users. Intelligent computing is an important application of MEC, where computing resources are used to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Yapeng Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) are two promising techniques to enhance the computation capability and to prolong the operational time of low-power wireless devices that are ubiquitous in Internet of Things.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Fuhui Zhou , Yongpeng Wu , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology in the 5G era. It is deemed an effective paradigm to support computation-intensive and delay critical applications even at energy-constrained and computation-limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Han Hu , Weiwei Song , Qun Wang , Rose Qingyang Hu , Hongbo Zhu

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) reduces the computational burden on terminal devices by shortening the distance between these devices and computing nodes. Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with enhanced MEC networks can leverage the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhiying Wang , Tianxi Wei , Gang Sun , Xinyue Liu , Hongfang Yu , Dusit Niyato

Artificial intelligence and distributed algorithms have been widely used in mechanical fault diagnosis with the explosive growth of diagnostic data. A novel intelligent fault diagnosis system framework that allows intelligent terminals to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Liang Yu , Qixin Guo , Rui Wang , Minyan Shi , Fucheng Yan , Ran Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection has been emerging as a prominent application due to its flexibility, mobility, and low operational cost. However, under the dynamic and uncertainty of IoT data collection and energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Nam H. Chu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Nguyen Van Huynh , Eryk Dutkiewicz

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been increasingly used in our everyday lives as well as in numerous industrial applications. However, due to limitations in computing and power capabilities, IoT devices need to send their respective tasks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ziad Qais Al Abbasi , Khaled M. Rabie , Senior Member , Xingwang Li , Senior Member , Wali Ullah Khan , Asma Abu Samah

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems emerged as a promising solution for providing computation services to mobile users outside of terrestrial infrastructure coverage. As each UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yan Kyaw Tun , Tri Nguyen Dang , Kitae Kim , Madyan Anselwi , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

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