Title
Toward Proactive Service Relocation for UAVs in MEC
Abstract
Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is considered as one of the key enablers of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) use cases. However, the envisioned MEC deployments introduce new challenges related to the management of the mobility of services across the distributed MEC hosts, following the UAVs movements and possible handovers to ensure sustainable Quality-of-Service (QoS). A major challenge for MEC service mobility is the decision-making on where and when to relocate services. In this paper, we motivate the use of the predefined flight plans of UAVs for devising proactive relocation strategies that can deal efficiently with realistic asynchronous relocation processes. Moreover, we formulate the Proactive Service Relocation for UAV (PSRU) problem using linear programming, and we validate the gains introduced by the proactive relocation strategy and the use of the predefined flight plans of UAVs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685066
2021 IEEE GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE (GLOBECOM)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), 5G, Beyond 5G, MEC, Service Migration, Mobile Networks, Linear Programming
Conference
2334-0983
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oussama Bekkouche182.16
Somayeh Kianpisheh200.34
Tarik Taleb33111237.91