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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

The recent drastic increase in mobile data traffic has pushed the mobile edge computing systems to the limit of their capacity. A promising solution to this problem is the task migration provided by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Khai Doan , Wesley Araujo , Evangelos Kranakis , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yannis Viniotis

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

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) and millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are capable of significantly reducing the network's delay and enhancing its capacity. In this paper we investigate a mmWave and device-to-device (D2D) assisted MEC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Yanzhen Liu , Yunlong Cai , An Liu , Minjian Zhao , Lajos Hanzo

The high computational complexity and energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms hinder their application in augmented reality (AR) systems. However, mobile edge computing (MEC) makes it possible to solve this problem.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Guangjin Pan , Heng Zhang , Shugong Xu , Shunqing Zhang , Xiaojing Chen

This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, in which the UAV provides complementary computation resource to the terrestrial MEC system. The UAV processes the received computation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Xianfu Chen , Tao Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang , Mehdi Bennis , Yusheng Ji

This letter investigates a cache-enabled multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system with dynamic task arrivals, taking into account the impact of proactive cache placement on the system's overall energy consumption. We consider that an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jingxuan Liang , Hong Xing , Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

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

As software may be used by multiple users, caching popular software at the wireless edge has been considered to save computation and communications resources for mobile edge computing (MEC). However, fetching uncached software from the core…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Wanli Wen , Ying Cui , Tony Q. S. Quek , Fu-Chun Zheng , Shi Jin

Computation offloading and resource allocation are critical in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to handle the massive and complex requirements of applications restricted by limited resources. In a multi-user multi-server MEC network, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianyi Shi , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Rong Huang , Yapeng Wang

To cope with the unprecedented surge in demand for data computing for the applications, the promising concept of multi-access edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the network edges to provide closer data processing for mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Qiqi Ren , Jian Chen , Omid Abbasi , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Halim Yanikomeroglu , F. Richard Yu

Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into vehicular networks have shown high potentials in affording intensive computing tasks. In this paper, we study the digital twin driven vehicular edge computing networks for adaptively…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Bin Li , Wancheng Xie , Yinghui Ye , Lei Liu , Zesong Fei

To overcome devices' limitations in performing computation-intense applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) enables users to offload tasks to proximal MEC servers for faster task computation. However, current MEC system design is based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) systems can use different multiple access schemes to coordinate multi-user task offloading. However, it is still unknown which scheme is the most energy-efficient, especially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qingjie Wu , Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Beixiong Zheng , Xiaoli Chu , Qingqing Wu

With the development of artificial intelligence integrated next-generation communication networks, mobile users (MUs) are increasingly demanding the efficient processing of computation-intensive and latency-sensitive tasks. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Wenchao Liu , Xuhui Zhang , Chunjie Wang , Jinke Ren , Zheng Xing , Bo Yang , Shuqiang Wang , Yanyan Shen

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising approach to deal with explosive computation requirements by enabling cloud computing capabilities at the edge of networks. Existing models of MEC impose some strong assumptions on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Tao Deng , Zhanwei Yu , Di Yuan

Mobile edge computing (MEC) technology can reduce user latency and energy consumption by offloading computationally intensive tasks to the edge servers. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hongjiang Lei , Mingxu Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan

In this paper, multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled mobile edge computing (MEC), i.e., UAVE is studied, where several UAVs are deployed as flying MEC platform to provide computing resource to ground user equipments (UEs). Compared to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Liang Wang , Peiqiu Huang , Kezhi Wang , Guopeng Zhang , Lei Zhang , Nauman Aslam , Kun Yang

The agile mobility of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) makes them ideal for low-altitude edge computing. This paper proposes a novel multi-tier UAV edge computing system where lightweight Low-Tier UAVs (L-UAVs) function as edge servers for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yufei Ye , Shijian Gao , Xinhu Zheng , Liuqing Yang