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To support the growing demand for data-intensive and low-latency IoT applications, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is emerging as an effective edge-computing approach enabling the execution of delay-sensitive processing tasks close to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Simone Bolettieri , Raffaele Bruno , Enzo Mingozzi

One prominent security threat that targets unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is the capture via GPS spoofing in which an attacker manipulates a UAV's global positioning system (GPS) signals in order to capture it. Given the anticipated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-01-01 AbdelRahman Eldosouky , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being utilized for a wide spectrum of applications in wireless networks leading to attractive business opportunities. In the case of abrupt disruption to existing cellular network operation or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Sanaa Sharafeddine , Rania Islambouli

The rapid development of Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) technology has spawned a wide variety of applications, such as emergency communications, regional surveillance, and disaster relief. Due to their limited battery capacity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yubo Yang , Tao Yang , Xiaofeng Wu , Bo Hu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) networks are one of the key technologies for ultra-reliability and low-latency communications. The computing resource allocation solution needs to be carefully designed to guarantee the computing resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Heng Liu , Haoming Jia , Jiaqi Chen , Xiaohu Ge , Yonghui Li , Lin Tian , Jinglin Shi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider downlink scenarios from an aerial base station to ground users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah

Data compression technology is able to reduce data size, which can be applied to lower the cost of task offloading in mobile edge computing (MEC). This paper addresses the practical challenges for robust trajectory and scheduling…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Bin Li , Xiao Zhu , Junyi Wang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained wide research interests due to their technological advancement and high mobility. The UAVs are equipped with increasingly advanced capabilities to run computationally intensive applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Wei Chong Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Chunyan Miao , Zhu Han , Dong In Kim

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

This paper considers a patrol inspection scenario where multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are adopted to traverse multiple predetermined cruise points for data collection. The UAVs are connected to cellular networks and they would…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Kuan Jia , Dingcheng Yang , Yapeng Wang , Tianyun Shui , Chenji Liu

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising approach for enhancing the quality-of-service (QoS) of AI-enabled applications in the B5G/6G era, by bringing computation capability closer to end-users at the network edge. In this work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Huaizhe Liu , Jiaqi Wu , Zhizongkai Wang , Bin Cao , Lin Gao

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a new paradigm that provides cloud computing services at the edge of networks. To achieve better performance with limited computing resources, peer offloading between cooperative edge servers (e.g. MEC-…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Xingqiu He , Sheng Wang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) seamlessly integrates communication and computation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple-access channels. Different from the existing works that focus on transceiver design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Wei Chen , Rui Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology that enhances the efficiency of mobile blockchain networks, by enabling miners, often acted by mobile users (MUs) with limited computing resources, to offload resource-intensive mining…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Licheng Ye , Zehui Xiong , Lin Gao , Dusit Niyato

To solve the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planning problem, a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called competitive game optimizer (CGO) is proposed. In the CGO model, three phases of exploration and exploitation, and candidate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Tai-shan Lou , Guang-sheng Guan , Zhe-peng Yue , Yu Wang , Ren-long Qi , Shi-hao Tong

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) addresses computational and battery limitations in devices by allowing them to offload computation tasks. To overcome the difficulties in establishing line-of-sight connections, integrating unmanned aerial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Pyae Sone Aung , Loc X. Nguyen , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Today, modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are equipped with increasingly advanced capabilities that can run applications enabled by machine learning techniques, which require computationally intensive operations such as matrix…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Wei Chong Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Jer Shyuan Ng , Suttinee Sawadsitang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato

Because of disaster, terrestrial base stations (TBS) would be partly crashed. Some user equipments (UE) would be unserved. Deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as aerial base stations is a method to cover UEs quickly. But existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Shiye Zhao , Kaoru Ota , Mianxiong Dong

There is an increased interest in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for agriculture, military, disaster management and aerial photography around the world. UAVs are scalable, flexible and are useful in various environments where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Bapireddy Karri

Heavy data load and wide cover range have always been crucial problems for online data processing in internet of things (IoT). Recently, mobile-edge computing (MEC) and unmanned aerial vehicle base stations (UAV-BSs) have emerged as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Shuo Wan , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief