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 …

A survey of unmanned aerial sensing solutions in precision agriculture

A Mukherjee, S Misra, NS Raghuwanshi - Journal of Network and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We attribute the gain in popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Platforms and
Systems (UAS) to its ease of operation, versatility, and risk-free piloting. The primary UAV …

Edge intelligence: A computational task offloading scheme for dependent IoT application

H **ao, C Xu, Y Ma, S Yang, L Zhong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational offloading, as an effective way to extend the capability of resource-limited
edge devices in Internet of Things (IoT), is considered as a promising emerging paradigm for …

Design, resource management, and evaluation of fog computing systems: a survey

I Martinez, AS Hafid, A Jarray - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A steady increase in Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications needing large-scale computation
and long-term storage has lead to an overreliance on cloud computing. The resulting …

HOTSPOT: A UAV-assisted dynamic mobility-aware offloading for mobile-edge computing in 3-D space

Z Liao, Y Ma, J Huang, J Wang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For massive access to the Internet of Things, edge computing servers are installed on
cellular ground base stations (GBSs) with fixed geographical locations, which easily suffer …

Delay-optimal task offloading for UAV-enabled edge-cloud computing systems

J Almutairi, M Aldossary, HA Alharbi, BA Yosuf… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of delay-sensitive and computationally-intensive mobile applications and
services pose a significant challenge for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) devices due to …

Mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled UAV placement and computation efficiency maximization in disaster scenario

Z Shah, U Javed, M Naeem… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered for disaster management to provide better
coverage or help first responders provide advanced services. Furthermore, UAVs combined …

Task offloading in multi-access edge computing enabled UAV-aided emergency response operations

S Akter, DY Kim, S Yoon - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In emergency response operations, using uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) has recently
become a promising solution due to their flexibility and easy deployment. However, tasks …

UAVs for traffic monitoring: A sequential game-based computation offloading/sharing approach

A Alioua, H Djeghri, MET Cherif, SM Senouci… - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, UAVs or Unnamed Aerial Vehicles have been proposed as flexible aerial
support to assist ground vehicles for different applications such as rescue and traffic …

Cell-edge user offloading via flying UAV in non-uniform heterogeneous cellular networks

H Wu, Z Wei, Y Hou, N Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing reliable and efficient coverage for cell-edge mobile users (MUs) is a key issue in
wireless communication networks. With non-uniform structure and heterogeneity of network …