UAV-Assisted Relaying and Edge Computing: Scheduling and Trajectory Optimization

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 18; no. 10; pp. 4738 - 4752
• Main Authors: Hu, Xiaoyan, Wong, Kai-Kit, Yang, Kun, Zheng, Zhongbin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.10.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; bandwidth allocation; Channel allocation; Computer architecture; Edge computing; Energy conservation; Energy consumption; Iterative methods; Mobile computing; mobile edge computing; Optimization; Relaying; Resource scheduling; Servers; Task analysis; Trajectory; Trajectory optimization; UAV; Unmanned aerial vehicles

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture, in which a UAV roaming around the area may serve as a computing server to help user equipment (UEs) compute their tasks or act as a relay for further offloading their computation tasks to the...