Air-ground integrated mobile edge networks: Architecture, challenges, and opportunities

N Cheng, W Xu, W Shi, Y Zhou, N Lu… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever increasing mobile data demands have posed significant challenges in the current
radio access networks, while the emerging computation-heavy Internet of Things …

Air-ground integrated mobile edge networks: A survey

W Zhang, L Li, N Zhang, T Han, S Wang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With proliferation of smart devices and wireless applications, the recent few years have
witnessed data surge. These massive data needs to be stored, transmitted, and processed …

Mobile edge computing in unmanned aerial vehicle networks

F Zhou, RQ Hu, Z Li, Y Wang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication networks are promising in the fifth
and beyond wireless communication systems. In this paper, we shed light on three UAV …

A survey on mobile edge networks: Convergence of computing, caching and communications

S Wang, X Zhang, Y Zhang, L Wang, J Yang… - Ieee …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the explosive growth of smart devices and the advent of many new applications, traffic
volume has been growing exponentially. The traditional centralized network architecture …

Multi-UAV network assisted intelligent edge computing: Challenges and opportunities

Z Liu, Y Cao, P Gao, X Hua, D Zhang… - China …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Introducing multi-UAV network with flexible deployment into mobile edge computing (MEC)
can effectively improve the quality of service of Internet-of-Things services, reduce the …

Computing in the sky: A survey on intelligent ubiquitous computing for uav-assisted 6g networks and industry 4.0/5.0

SH Alsamhi, AV Shvetsov, S Kumar, J Hassan… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being used in a high-computation
paradigm enabled with smart applications in the Beyond Fifth Generation (B5G) wireless …

Unmanned aerial vehicle swarm-enabled edge computing: Potentials, promising technologies, and challenges

W Wu, F Zhou, B Wang, Q Wu… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm enabled edge computing is envisioned to be
promising in the sixth generation wireless communication networks due to their wide …

Aerial computing: A new computing paradigm, applications, and challenges

QV Pham, R Ruby, F Fang, DC Nguyen… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In existing computing systems, such as edge computing and cloud computing, several
emerging applications and practical scenarios are mostly unavailable or only partially …

Air-ground heterogeneous networks for 5G and beyond via integrating high and low altitude platforms

J Qiu, D Grace, G Ding, MD Zakaria… - IEEE Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
UAVs are expected to be an important complementary component for 5G (and beyond)
communication systems to achieve the goal of global access to the Internet for all. To fully …

Aerial edge computing: A survey

Q Zhang, Y Luo, H Jiang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the beyond 5G/6G era, aerial edge computing (AEC) is expected to be used as significant
components in Internet of Things. AEC brings flexible deployment with Line-of-Sight …