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Satellite-terrestrial networks (STNs) are anticipated to deliver seamless IoT services across expansive regions. Given the constrained resources available for offloading computationally intensive tasks like video streaming, it is crucial to…
With the rapid development of the low-altitude economy, air-ground integrated multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems are facing increasing demands for real-time and intelligent task scheduling. In such systems, task offloading and…
Edge computing that enables satellites to process raw data locally is expected to bring further timeliness and flexibility to satellite-terrestrial networks (STNs). In this letter, we propose a three-layer edge computing protocol, where raw…
Nowadays a wide range of applications is constrained by low-latency requirements that cloud infrastructures cannot meet. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been proposed as the reference architecture for executing applications closer to…
In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), multi-access edge computing (MEC)-enabled satellite-aerial-terrestrial integrated network (SATIN) has emerged as a promising technology to provide massive IoT devices with seamless and reliable…
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) as an emerging paradigm utilizing cloudlet or fog nodes to extend remote cloud computing to the edge of the network, is foreseen as a key technology towards next generation wireless networks. By offloading…
This paper presents a novel multi-tier UAV-assisted edge computing system designed for low-altitude networks. The system comprises vehicle users, lightweight Low-Tier UAVs (L-UAVs), and High-Tier UAV (H-UAV). L-UAVs function as small-scale…
In recent years, there is an emerging trend that some computing services are moving from cloud to the edge of the networks. Compared to cloud computing, edge computing can provide services with faster response, lower expense, and more…
Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…
Mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled air-ground networks are a key component of 6G, employing aerial base stations (ABSs) such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) to provide dynamic services to…
The paper introduces confidential computing approaches focused on protecting hierarchical data within edge-cloud network. Edge-cloud network suggests splitting and sharing data between the main cloud and the range of networks near the…
Many cloud-based applications employ a data centre as a central server to process data that is generated by edge devices, such as smartphones, tablets and wearables. This model places ever increasing demands on communication and…
We present an Edge-as-a-Service (EaaS) platform for realising distributed cloud architectures and integrating the edge of the network in the computing ecosystem. The EaaS platform is underpinned by (i) a lightweight discovery protocol that…
In this work, we study a multi-user NTN in which a satellite serves as the primary network and a high-altitude platform station (HAPS) operates as the secondary network, acting as a cognitive radio. To reduce the cost, complexity, and power…
With the widespread adoption of 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, the low latency provided by edge computing has great importance for real-time processing. However, managing numerous simultaneous service requests poses a…
Multiple access mobile edge computing is an emerging technique to bring computation resources close to end mobile users. By deploying edge servers at WiFi access points or cellular base stations, the computation capabilities of mobile users…
High-altitude platform stations (HAPS) enable large-scale federated learning (FL) in non-terrestrial networks (NTN) by providing wide-area coverage and predominantly line-of-sight (LoS) connectivity to many ground users. However, practical…
Cloud providers are facing a complex problem in configuring software applications ready for deployment on their infrastructures. Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning can provide effective means to solve such deployment problems. We…
With the widespread use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the arrival of the 5G era, edge computing has become an attractive paradigm to serve end-users and provide better QoS. Many efforts have been done to provision some merging…
Serverless computing has emerged as an attractive paradigm due to the efficiency of development and the ease of deployment without managing any underlying infrastructure. Nevertheless, serverless computing approaches face numerous…