A vision and framework for the high altitude platform station (HAPS) networks of the future

GK Kurt, MG Khoshkholgh, S Alfattani… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) is a network node that operates in the stratosphere
at an of altitude around 20 km and is instrumental for providing communication services …

Survey on aerial radio access networks: Toward a comprehensive 6G access infrastructure

NN Dao, QV Pham, NH Tu, TT Thanh… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current access infrastructures are characterized by heterogeneity, low latency, high
throughput, and high computational capability, enabling massive concurrent connections …

An extensive survey on the Internet of Drones

P Boccadoro, D Striccoli, LA Grieco - Ad Hoc Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Internet of Drones (IoD) recently gained momentum due to its high adaptability
to a wide variety of complex scenarios. Indeed, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can …

Minimizing the delay and cost of computation offloading for vehicular edge computing

Q Luo, C Li, TH Luan, W Shi - IEEE Transactions on Services …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of autonomous driving poses significant demands on computing resource,
which is challenging to resource-constrained vehicles. To alleviate the issue, Vehicular …

Sustainable task offloading in UAV networks via multi-agent reinforcement learning

A Sacco, F Esposito, G Marchetto… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent growth of IoT devices, along with edge computing, has revealed many
opportunities for novel applications. Among them, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which …

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 …

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 …

Optimization of task scheduling and dynamic service strategy for multi-UAV-enabled mobile-edge computing system

Y Luo, W Ding, B Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we introduce a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) enabled mobile
edge computing (MEC) system, with UAVs as the computing server for the task offloading of …

Cooperative data sensing and computation offloading in UAV-assisted crowdsensing with multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

T Cai, Z Yang, Y Chen, W Chen… - … on Network Science …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be leveragedin mobile crowdsensing (MCS) to
conduct sensing tasks at remote or rural areas through computation offloading and data …

DoSRA: A decentralized approach to online edge task scheduling and resource allocation

Q Peng, C Wu, Y Xia, Y Ma, X Wang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the proliferation of novel Internet of Things (IoT) mobile applications and advanced
communication technologies, nowadays we are surrounded by ubiquitous sensors and …