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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhen, Qin
• Shoushuai, He
• Hai, Wang
• Yuben, Qu
• Haipeng, Dai
• Fei, Xiong
• Zhenhua, Wei
• Hailong, Li

Titel

Air-ground collaborative mobile edge computing: Architecture, challenges, and opportunities

Ist Teil von

• China communications, 2024-05, Vol.21 (5), p.1-16

Ort / Verlag

China Institute of Communications

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

IEEE Xplore

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 (AGC-MEC) architecture in this article. The proposed AGC-MEC 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.