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Latency-Oriented Time Scheduling and 3D Trajectory Design for Hybrid UAV-MEC Systems

Hu, X; Gao, X; Wen, P; Wong, KK; Yang, K; (2025) Latency-Oriented Time Scheduling and 3D Trajectory Design for Hybrid UAV-MEC Systems. In: 2025 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC). IEEE: Shanghai, China. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper studies a latency-oriented air-ground hybrid mobile edge computing (MEC) system with an assistant unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a ground base station (GBS) to serve and charge multiple users under the time-division multiple access (TDMA) protocol. The task completion latency minimization problem is formulated by jointly optimizing the time slot scheduling, UAV's three-dimensional (3D) trajectory design, transmit power allocation, as well as the number of required time slots. To address such a mixed integer nonconvex optimization problem, we introduce an efficient alternating optimization algorithm with a double-loop structure. In the outer loop, we constantly adjust the number of time slots by employing the bisection search method and determine the search range via feasibility check. In the inner loop, we first transform the original subproblem into an equivalent problem that maximizes the minimum computation completion ratio of the users. Then we further decompose this transformed problem into three subproblems, which can be solved by a proposed iterative algorithm. Extensive experiments are conducted to illustrate the efficacy and superiority of the proposed algorithm over the other benchmark schemes in minimizing the task completion latency.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Latency-Oriented Time Scheduling and 3D Trajectory Design for Hybrid UAV-MEC Systems
Event: 2025 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC)
Dates: 10 Aug 2025 - 13 Aug 2025
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/ICCC65529.2025.11149133
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/iccc65529.2025.11149133
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Time division multiple access, Three-dimensional displays, Processor scheduling, Search methods, Simulation,Transforms, Autonomous aerial vehicles, Trajectory, Resource management, Optimization
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215701
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