Mobile-Edge Computing in the Sky: Energy Optimization for Air-Ground Integrated Networks

• Published in: IEEE internet of things journal Vol. 7; no. 8; pp. 7443 - 7456
• Main Authors: Shang, Bodong, Liu, Lingjia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.08.2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Bandwidth; Bandwidths; Computation offloading; Computer simulation; Edge computing; Energy conservation; Energy consumption; Mobile computing; mobile-edge computing (MEC); Network latency; Optimization; Power consumption; Power control; Radio equipment; resource allocation; Resource management; Servers; Task analysis; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); Unmanned aerial vehicles; Uplink; Wireless networks

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be deployed as aerial base stations (BSs) in future wireless networks to provide extensive coverage and additional computational capabilities for user equipments (UEs). In this article, we study mobile-edge computing (MEC) in air-ground integrated wire...