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Record W4412987964 · doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2025.111587

Resource optimization for minimizing latency and cost in UAV-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) networks

2025· article· en· W4412987964 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueComputer Networks · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicUAV Applications and Optimization
Canadian institutionsLakehead University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsComputer scienceMobile edge computingLatency (audio)Edge computingEnhanced Data Rates for GSM EvolutionComputer networkDistributed computingReal-time computingTelecommunications

Abstract

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enable a mobile edge computing (MEC) paradigm with reduced latency by bringing computational resources closer to the network edge. However, UAV-MEC servers have less computation and caching resources than ground base stations (BSs). The management of communication and control resources is crucial to coordinate communication, computing, and caching due to the involvement of aerial networks. Thus, managing joint caching, communication, computing, and control (4C) resources is vital in UAV-assisted MEC networks. To address these challenges, we developed a computational model for efficient resource management to reduce the linear combination of network cost and latency under constrained caching, computing, and offloading. We used binary decision variables for the allocation of computational and offloading resources. The formulated problem is a binary linear programming problem incorporating binary decision variables and linear constraints. We propose an interior point method-based heuristic to obtain a sub-optimal solution with low complexity. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach compared to the branch and bound algorithm.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.710
Threshold uncertainty score0.814

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it