Blockchain for decentralized multi‐drone to combat COVID‐19 and future pandemics: framework and proposed solutions

SH Alsamhi, B Lee, M Guizani, N Kumar… - Transactions on …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, drones represent a promising technology for combating Coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID‐19) due to the transport of goods, medical supplies to a given target location …

Integration of multi access edge computing with unmanned aerial vehicles: Current techniques, open issues and research directions

N Fatima, P Saxena, M Gupta - Physical Communication, 2022 - Elsevier
During the last decade, research and development in the field of multi access edge
computing (MEC) has rapidly risen to prominence. One of the factors propelling MEC's …

Blockchain-enabled task offloading with energy harvesting in multi-UAV-assisted IoT networks: A multi-agent DRL approach

AM Seid, J Lu, HN Abishu… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a promising technology that can serve as aerial base
stations to assist Internet of Things (IoT) networks, solving various problems such as …

Mobility aware blockchain enabled offloading and scheduling in vehicular fog cloud computing

A Lakhan, M Ahmad, M Bilal, A Jolfaei… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of vehicular Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as E-Transport,
Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality are growing progressively. The mobility aware …

Blockchain-enabled edge intelligence for IoT: Background, emerging trends and open issues

Y Du, Z Wang, VCM Leung - Future Internet, 2021 - mdpi.com
Blockchain, a distributed ledger technology (DLT), refers to a list of records with consecutive
time stamps. This decentralization technology has become a powerful model to establish …

A comprehensive survey on aerial mobile edge computing: Challenges, state-of-the-art, and future directions

Z Song, X Qin, Y Hao, T Hou, J Wang, X Sun - Computer Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by the visions of Internet of Things (IoT), there is an ever-increasing demand for
computation resources of IoT users to support diverse applications. Mobile edge computing …

Blockchain-empowered resource allocation in Multi-UAV-enabled 5G-RAN: a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approach

AM Seid, A Erbad, HN Abishu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In 5G and B5G networks, real-time and secure resource allocation with the common telecom
infrastructure is challenging. This problem may be more severe when mobile users are …

Flying through the secure fog: a complete study on UAV‐fog in heterogeneous networks

A Gupta, SK Gupta - International journal of communication …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A drone or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is becoming a trending area for researchers
worldwide. UAV's contribution is increasing in day‐to‐day life, whether it is in a military zone …

Fundamental design aspects of UAV-enabled MEC systems: A review on models, challenges, and future opportunities

MH Adnan, ZA Zukarnain, OA Amodu - Computer Science Review, 2024 - Elsevier
The huge prospects of the internet of things (IoT) have led to an ever-growing demand for
computing power by IoT users to enable various applications. Multi-access edge computing …

Blockchain-envisioned unmanned aerial vehicle communications in space-air-ground integrated network: A review

Z Wang, F Zhang, Q Yu, T Qin - Intelligent and Converged …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communications have recently entered a new period of
interest, motivated by technological advances and the gradual emergence of the Space-Air …