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

作　　者：Qin Zhen He Shoushuai Wang Hai Qu Yuben Dai Haipeng Xiong Fei Wei Zhenhua Li Hailong 

机构地区：[1]College of Communications Engineering,Army Engineering University of PLA,Nanjing 210000,China [2]Department of Information and Communication,Noncommissioned Officer Academy of PAP,Hangzhou 310000,China [3]Key Laboratory of Dynamic Cognitive System of Electromagnetic Spectrum Space,Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,Nanjing 211106,China [4]College of Electronic and Information Engineering,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 211106,China [5]State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210023,China [6]CMC Political and Law Commission,Beijing,100120,China [7]Xi’an Research Institute of High Technology,Xi’an 710025,China

出　　处：《China Communications》2024年第5期1-16,共16页中国通信（英文版）

基　　金：supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62171465,62072303,62272223,U22A2031。

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.

关 键 词：air-ground architecture COLLABORATIVE mobile edge computing 

分 类 号：TN929.5[电子电信—通信与信息系统]