A survey on UAV-assisted wireless communications: Recent advances and future trends

X Gu, G Zhang - Computer Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their characteristics of mobility, flexibility and adaptive altitude, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have immense potential applications in wireless …

Game combined multi-agent reinforcement learning approach for UAV assisted offloading

A Gao, Q Wang, W Liang, Z Ding - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Air ground integrated mobile cloud computing (MCC) provides unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) the capability to act as an aerial relay with more flexibility and resilience. In the cloud …

NOMA-enabled mobile edge computing for Internet of Things via joint communication and computation resource allocations

LP Qian, B Shi, Y Wu, B Sun… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The past decades have witnessed an explosive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT)
services requiring intensive computation resources. The conventional IoT devices, however …

A survey of prototype and experiment for UAV communications

Q Song, Y Zeng, J Xu, S Jin - Science China Information Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have attracted significant attention from
both academia and industry. To facilitate the large-scale usage of UAVs for various …

Three-dimensional multi-UAV placement and resource allocation for energy-efficient IoT communication

N Nouri, J Abouei, AR Sepasian… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article considers the problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled cloud
network under partial computation offloading scenario, where multiple UAV-mounted aerial …

UAVs as an intelligent service: Boosting edge intelligence for air-ground integrated networks

C Dong, Y Shen, Y Qu, K Wang, J Zheng, Q Wu… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The air-ground integrated network is a key component of future sixth generation (6G)
networks to support seamless and near-instant super-connectivity. There is a pressing need …

Multi-drone 3-D trajectory planning and scheduling in drone-assisted radio access networks

W Shi, J Li, N Cheng, F Lyu, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A drone base station (DBS) is a promising technique to extend wireless connections for
uncovered users of terrestrial radio access networks (RANs). To improve user fairness and …

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 …

Energy-aware coded caching strategy design with resource optimization for satellite-UAV-vehicle-integrated networks

S Gu, X Sun, Z Yang, T Huang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) can offer safe and comfortable driving experience, by the
enhanced advantages of space–air–ground-integrated networks (SAGINs), ie, global …

Stackelberg-game-based computation offloading method in cloud–edge computing networks

H Zhou, Z Wang, N Cheng, D Zeng… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Offloading computation tasks through cloud–edge collaboration has been a promising way
to improve the Quality of Service (QoS) of applications. Usually, cloud server (CS) and edge …