UAV-assisted MEC systems: architecture, key technology, and future challenges

Tiankui ZHANG; Yu XU; Yuanwei LIU; Dingcheng YANG; Yuanhong REN

doi:10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2022237

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UAV-assisted MEC systems: architecture, key technology, and future challenges

Topic: UAV-Assisted Air-Ground Wireless Communication Technology | 更新时间：2024-06-05

- UAV-assisted MEC systems: architecture, key technology, and future challenges
- Telecommunications Science Vol. 38, Issue 8, Pages: 3-16(2022)
- 作者机构：
  
  1. 北京邮电大学信息与通信工程学院，北京 100876
  2. 英国伦敦玛丽女王大学电子工程与计算机科学学院，英国伦敦 E1 4NS
  3. 南昌大学信息工程学院，江西南昌 330031
  4. 北方自动控制技术研究所，山西太原 030006
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- DOI：10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2022237
  CLC： TP393
- Published Online：2022-08，
  
  Published：20 August 2022
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Tiankui ZHANG, Yu XU, Yuanwei LIU, et al. UAV-assisted MEC systems: architecture, key technology, and future challenges[J]. Telecommunications science, 2022, 38(8): 3-16.
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Tiankui ZHANG, Yu XU, Yuanwei LIU, et al. UAV-assisted MEC systems: architecture, key technology, and future challenges[J]. Telecommunications science, 2022, 38(8): 3-16. DOI： 10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2022237.

摘要

摘要：随着5G加速部署和6G研究工作持续推进，无人机（unmanned aerial vehicle，UAV）辅助移动边缘计算（mobile edge computing，MEC）技术在克服复杂地域限制、解决终端设备计算需求和提高系统任务卸载速率等方面具有显著优势，得到了学术界和工业界的广泛关注。首先阐明了无人机辅助MEC系统的概念和技术优势，提出了一种无人机辅助MEC通用架构，并给出了各个功能模块定义；接着总结了典型应用场景，梳理了现有的关键性技术，获得了无人机MEC系统的设计方法；最后对未来的研究方向和存在的挑战进行了展望和阐述。

Abstract

With the fast deployment of 5G and the on-going development of 6G

unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) technology has significant advantages in the terms of overcoming the geographic restrictions

addressing the computational requirements of terminal devices

and enhancing the task offloading rate of the systems

which attracts wide attentions in academia and industry.The concept and the technique advantages of the UAV-assisted MEC systems were firstly clarified

and a general UAV-assisted MEC architecture was proposed

along with the definition of each function module.Then the classic application scenarios were summarized

and the existing key techniques were sorted out

based on which the design methods for the UAV-assisted MEC were achieved.Finally

the research directions and the potential challenges in the future were prospected and clarified.

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