Evolution of non-terrestrial networks from 5G to 6G: A survey

MM Azari, S Solanki, S Chatzinotas… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) traditionally have certain limited applications. However, the
recent technological advancements and manufacturing cost reduction opened up myriad …

A survey of wireless networks for future aerial communications (FACOM)

A Baltaci, E Dinc, M Ozger, A Alabbasi… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrification turned over a new leaf in aviation by introducing new types of aerial vehicles
along with new means of transportation. Addressing a plethora of use cases, drones are …

Digital twin assisted task offloading for aerial edge computing and networks

B Li, Y Liu, L Tan, H Pan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering the user mobility and unpredictable mobile edge computing (MEC)
environments, this paper studies the intelligent task offloading problem in unmanned aerial …

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 …

UAV-aided energy-efficient edge computing networks: Security offloading optimization

X Gu, G Zhang, M Wang, W Duan… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely applied for service provisioning in many
domains, such as topographic mapping and traffic monitoring. These applications are …

Secure task offloading for MEC-aided-UAV system

P Chen, X Luo, D Guo, Y Sun, J Xie… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The promise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) combined with the mobile edge computing
(MEC), named MEC-aided-UAV extends the MEC application to offer new flexible, low …

Cellular-connected multi-UAV MEC networks: An online stochastic optimization approach

Y Xu, T Zhang, Y Liu, D Yang, L Xiao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider a mobile edge computing (MEC) network where multiple cellular-
connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can offload their computation tasks to multiple …

Energy-aware, device-to-device assisted federated learning in edge computing

Y Li, W Liang, J Li, X Cheng, D Yu… - … on Parallel and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The surging of deep learning brings new vigor and vitality to shape the prospect of intelligent
Internet of Things (IoT), and the rise of edge intelligence enables provisioning real-time …

Let's trade in the future! A futures-enabled fast resource trading mechanism in edge computing-assisted UAV networks

M Liwang, Z Gao, X Wang - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as one of the key technical aspects of the fifth-
generation (5G) networks. The integration of MEC with resource-constrained unmanned …

Energy minimization for cellular connected aerial edge computing system with binary offloading

H Han, C Zhan, J Lv, C Xu - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the characteristic of wide coverage, flexible deployment, and low cost, unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been employed to provide mobile crowdsensing and edge …