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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

In this paper, we consider a platform of flying mobile edge computing (F-MEC), where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as equipment providing computation resource, and they enable task offloading from user equipment (UE). We aim to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Liang Wang , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Wei Xu , Nauman Aslam , Arumugam Nallanathan

With an extensive increment of computation demands, the aerial multi-access edge computing (MEC), mainly based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high altitude platforms (HAPs), plays significant roles in future network scenarios. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ziye Jia , Can Cui , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Zhuang Ling , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

The computation demands from the maritime Internet of Things (MIoT) increase rapidly in recent years, and the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and vessels based multi-access edge computing (MEC) can fulfill these MIoT requirements. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jiahao You , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Qihui Wu , Zhu Han

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Saichao Liu , Geng Sun , Chuang Zhang , Xuejie Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Dusit Niyato

In the traditional cellular-based mobile edge computing (MEC), users at the edge of the cell are prone to suffer severe inter-cell interference and signal attenuation, leading to low throughput even transmission interruptions. Such edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Langtian Qin , Hancheng Lu , Yuang Chen , Baolin Chong , Feng Wu

In recent years, cloud and edge architectures have gained tremendous focus for offloading computationally heavy applications. From machine learning and Internet of Thing (IOT) to industrial procedures and robotics, cloud computing have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Achilleas Santi Seisa , Sumeet Gajanan Satpute , George Nikolakopoulos

Dangerous surroundings and difficult-to-reach landscapes introduce significant complications for adequate disaster management and recuperation. These problems can be solved by engaging unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provided with embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Branislava Jankovic , Sabina Jangirova , Waseem Ullah , Latif U. Khan , Mohsen Guizani

This paper studies the problem of securing task offloading transmissions from ground users against ground eavesdropping threats. Our study introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mobile edge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic

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

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

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

This position paper introduces Urgent Edge Computing (UEC) as a paradigm shift addressing the evolving demands of time-sensitive applications in distributed edge environments, in time-critical scenarios. With a focus on ultra-low latency,…

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…

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

Deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations can deliver a fast and flexible solution for serving varying traffic demand. In order to adequately benefit of UAVs deployment, their efficient placement is of utmost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Atefeh Hajijamali Arani , M. Mahdi Azari , William Melek , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

This paper investigates the robust and secure task transmission and computation scheme in multi-antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) networks, where the UAV is dual-function, i.e., aerial MEC and aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Weihao Mao , Ke Xiong , Yang Lu , Pingyi Fan , Zhiguo Ding

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

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

In this paper, we consider a UAV-enabled MEC platform that serves multiple mobile ground users with random movements and task arrivals. We aim to minimize the average weighted energy consumption of all users subject to the average UAV…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Zheyuan Yang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang