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 …

Latency optimization of UAV-enabled MEC system for virtual reality applications under rician fading channels

AA Nasir - IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled mobile edge computing
(MEC) system, where UAV base stations (UBSs) are deployed to cache, process, and …

Multi-hop task offloading with on-the-fly computation for multi-UAV remote edge computing

X He, R Jin, H Dai - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dramatic growth in computing capability and the inherent mobility of the unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) foster the recent surge of interests in incorporating UAVs into edge …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient UAV-based mobile edge computing using differential evolution and ant colony optimization

MH Mousa, MK Hussein - PeerJ Computer Science, 2022 - peerj.com
Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) tasks are offloaded to servers located at the edge network
for improving the power consumption of IoT devices and the execution times of tasks …

Service satisfaction-oriented task offloading and UAV scheduling in UAV-enabled MEC networks

J Tian, D Wang, H Zhang, D Wu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of computation-intensive applications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-
enabled multi-access edge computing (MEC) provides task offloading service for the users …

Multi-tier hybrid offloading for computation-aware IoT applications in civil aircraft-augmented SAGIN

Q Chen, W Meng, TQS Quek… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellites and civil aircrafts (CAs) with computing ability are valuable access platforms,
making it possible for Internet of Things (IoT) devices to offload their computation-intensive …

Computation bits maximization in UAV-enabled mobile-edge computing system

L Lyu, F Zeng, Z Xiao, C Zhang, H Jiang… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in various
industries (eg, search and rescue, express delivery, etc.) due to their high flexibility. In …

Joint optimization of usvs communication and computation resource in irs-aided wireless inland ship mec networks

Q Ai, X Qiao, Y Liao, Q Yu - IEEE Transactions on Green …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To realize fully functioning inland waterway communications, portable and affordable
unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have become increasingly significant in wireless inland …

A survey of energy efficient methods for UAV communication

H Jin, X Jin, Y Zhou, P Guo, J Ren, J Yao… - Vehicular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are characterized by high flexibility and low deployment
costs. Therefore, UAVs, in recent years, have been widely used in all walks of life, such as …

Joint optimization of area coverage and mobile-edge computing with clustering for FANETs

W You, C Dong, X Cheng, X Zhu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Area coverage is one of the most common and important tasks for flying ad hoc networks
(FANETs). The increasingly large scale of FANETs brings challenges in communication and …