UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges

B Alzahrani, OS Oubbati, A Barnawi… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology with the potential to
be used in industries and various sectors of human life to provide a wide range of …

The drone scheduling problem: A systematic state-of-the-art review

J Pasha, Z Elmi, S Purkayastha… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones are receiving popularity with time due to their advanced mobility. Although they were
initially deployed for military purposes, they now have a wide array of applications in various …

Computation-efficient offloading and trajectory scheduling for multi-UAV assisted mobile edge computing

J Zhang, L Zhou, F Zhou, BC Seet… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of mobile edge computing (MEC) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is
of great significance for the prospective development of Internet of Things (IoT). The …

Task offloading for post-disaster rescue in unmanned aerial vehicles networks

Y Wang, W Chen, TH Luan, Z Su, Q Xu… - IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Natural disasters often cause huge and unpredictable losses to human lives and properties.
In such an emergency post-disaster rescue situation, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are …

SEAL: A strategy-proof and privacy-preserving UAV computation offloading framework

Y Wang, Z Su, TH Luan, J Li, Q Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the limited battery and computing resource, offloading unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs)'computation tasks to ground infrastructure, eg, vehicles, is a fundamental framework …

Cache-enabling UAV communications: Network deployment and resource allocation

T Zhang, Y Wang, Y Liu, W Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate the content distribution in the hotspot area, whose traffic is
offloaded by the combination of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication and …

Internet of flying things (IoFT): A survey

S Zaidi, M Atiquzzaman, CT Calafate - Computer Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently received significant attention by
the civilian and military community, mostly due to the fast growth of UAV technologies …

A novel load balancing and low response delay framework for edge-cloud network based on SDN

Y Liu, Z Zeng, X Liu, X Zhu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the cloud computing based on software-defined networks (SDNs), a larger amount of
data is collected to cloud for analysis, which will cause the larger amount of redundancy …

Resource management in UAV-assisted wireless networks: An optimization perspective

R Masroor, M Naeem, W Ejaz - Ad Hoc Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Wireless networks are expected to provide connectivity to an increasing number of users
with heterogeneous requirements. Future wireless networks will integrate aerial and …

VFC-based cooperative UAV computation task offloading for post-disaster rescue

W Chen, Z Su, Q Xu, TH Luan… - IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Natural disasters often cause huge and unpredictable losses to human lives and properties.
In such an emergency post-disaster rescue situation, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are …