Air-Ground Collaborative Mobile Edge Computing: Architecture, Challenges, and Opportunities

被引:3
作者
Zhen, Qin [1 ,2 ]
He, Shoushuai [1 ]
Wang, Hai [1 ]
Qu, Yuben [3 ,4 ]
Dai, Haipeng [5 ]
Xiong, Fei [6 ]
Wei, Zhenhua [7 ]
Li, Hailong [7 ]
机构
[1] Army Engn Univ PLA, Coll Commun Engn, Nanjing 210000, Peoples R China
[2] Noncommissioned Officer Acad PAP, Dept Informat & Commun, Hangzhou 310000, Peoples R China
[3] Minist Ind & Informat Technol, Key Lab Dynam Cognit Syst Electromagnet Spectrum S, Nanjing 211106, Peoples R China
[4] Nanjing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Coll Elect & Informat Engn, Nanjing 211106, Peoples R China
[5] Nanjing Univ, State Key Lab Novel Software Technol, Nanjing 210023, Peoples R China
[6] CMC Polit & Law Commiss, Beijing 100120, Peoples R China
[7] Xian Res Inst High Technol, Xian 710025, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
air-ground; architecture; collaborative; mobile edge computing; RESOURCE-ALLOCATION; JOINT OPTIMIZATION; INTELLIGENCE; SERVICE; TASK;
D O I
10.23919/JCC.ea.2021-0669.202401
中图分类号
TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0809 ;
摘要
By pushing computation, cache, and network control to the edge, mobile edge computing (MEC) is expected to play a leading role in fifth generation (5G) and future sixth generation (6G). Nevertheless, facing ubiquitous fast-growing computational demands, it is impossible for a single MEC paradigm to effectively support high -quality intelligent services at end user equipments (UEs). To address this issue, we propose an air -ground collaborative MEC (AGCMEC) architecture in this article. The proposed AGCMEC integrates all potentially available MEC servers within air and ground in the envisioned 6G, by a variety of collaborative ways to provide computation services at their best for UEs. Firstly, we introduce the AGC-MEC architecture and elaborate three typical use cases. Then, we discuss four main challenges in the AGC-MEC as well as their potential solutions. Next, we conduct a case study of collaborative service placement for AGC-MEC to validate the effectiveness of the proposed collaborative service placement strategy. Finally, we highlight several potential research directions of the AGC-MEC.
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页数:16
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