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 …

Secure UAV-aided mobile edge computing for IoT: A review

ET Michailidis, K Maliatsos, DN Skoutas… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem evolves, innovative applications with stringent
demands with respect to latency will emerge. To handle computation-intensive tasks in a …

Fairness-based 3-D multi-UAV trajectory optimization in multi-UAV-assisted MEC system

Y He, Y Gan, H Cui, M Guizani - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-assisted mobile-edge computing (MEC) communication
system has recently gained increasing attention. In this article, we investigate a 3-D multi …

Intelligent task offloading and resource allocation in digital twin based aerial computing networks

H Guo, X Zhou, J Wang, J Liu… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To meet the future demands for ubiquitous communication coverage and
temporary/unexpected computing resources, aerial computing networks have been …

AI-Enhanced Cloud-Edge-Terminal Collaborative Network: Survey, Applications, and Future Directions

H Gu, L Zhao, Z Han, G Zheng… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cloud-edge-terminal collaborative network (CETCN) is considered as a novel paradigm
for emerging applications owing to its huge potential in providing low-latency and ultra …

Joint hybrid caching and replacement scheme for UAV-assisted vehicular edge computing networks

Y Liu, C Yang, X Chen, F Wu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the flexible deployment and availability of line-of-sight (LoS) link, unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) is able to assist the roadside unit (RSU) to provide timely computing …

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Computation Offloading in UAV-Assisted Edge Computing

P Zhang, Y Su, B Li, L Liu, C Wang, W Zhang, L Tan - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Traditional multi-access edge computing (MEC) often has difficulty processing large
amounts of data in the face of high computationally intensive tasks, so it needs to offload …

Robust trajectory and offloading for energy-efficient UAV edge computing in Industrial Internet of Things

X Tang, H Zhang, R Zhang, D Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient data processing and computation are essential for the Industrial Internet of Things
(IIoT) to empower various applications, which can be significantly bottlenecked by the limited …

Joint resource allocation and trajectory optimization in UAV-enabled wirelessly powered MEC for large area

Y Zeng, S Chen, Y Cui, J Yang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates a wirelessly powered mobile edge computing (MEC) framework with
the cooperation between an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a center Cloud. In this …

Hierarchical matching algorithm for relay selection in mec-aided ultra-dense uav networks

W Liang, S Ma, S Yang, B Zhang, A Gao - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the rapid development of communication technology, unmanned aerial vehicle–mobile
edge computing (UAV-MEC) networks have emerged with powerful capabilities. However …