eprintid: 10204644 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/20/46/44 datestamp: 2025-02-12 13:52:41 lastmod: 2025-02-12 13:52:41 status_changed: 2025-02-12 13:52:41 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Hu, X creators_name: Wen, P creators_name: Xiao, H creators_name: Wang, W creators_name: Wong, KK title: Maximizing Energy Charging for UAV-Assisted MEC Systems With SWIPT ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: F46 keywords: Mobile edge computing (MEC), simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: A Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) scheme with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is proposed in this paper. Unlike existing MEC-WPT schemes that disregard the downlink period for returning computing results to the ground equipment (GEs), our proposed scheme actively considers and capitalizes on this period. By leveraging the SWIPT technique, the assistant UAV can simultaneously transmit energy and the computing results during the downlink period. In this scheme, our objective is to maximize the remaining energy among all GEs by jointly optimizing computing task scheduling, UAV transmit and receive beamforming, BS receive beamforming, GEs' transmit power and power splitting ratio for information decoding, time scheduling, and UAV trajectory. We propose an alternating optimization algorithm that utilizes the semidefinite relaxation (SDR), singular value decomposition (SVD), and fractional programming (FP) methods to effectively solve the non-convex problem. Numerous experiments validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. date: 2025-01-01 date_type: published publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) official_url: https://doi.org/10.1109/tvt.2025.3530426 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2360024 doi: 10.1109/TVT.2025.3530426 lyricists_name: Wong, Kai-Kit lyricists_id: KWONG98 actors_name: Wong, Kai-Kit actors_id: KWONG98 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology pagerange: 1-6 issn: 0018-9545 citation: Hu, X; Wen, P; Xiao, H; Wang, W; Wong, KK; (2025) Maximizing Energy Charging for UAV-Assisted MEC Systems With SWIPT. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology pp. 1-6. 10.1109/TVT.2025.3530426 <https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2025.3530426>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204644/1/Maximizing%20Energy%20Charging%20for%20UAV-assisted%20MEC%20Systems%20with%20SWIPT_Accepted.pdf