Unmanned aerial vehicle-enabled edge computing: architecture, multiple access and computation offloading.

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled edge computing combines mobile edge computing technology with UAV platform. It can provide timely and effective computing services for wireless devices by taking advantages of the flexible deployment and mobility of UAV. Starting with the network architecture of UAV-enabled edge computing, the technical architecture based on network function virtualization and software- defined networks is proposed. For the key technologies of UAV-enabled edge computing, different multiple access schemes in UAV-enabled edge computing network are compared. Furthermore, according to different optimization objectives, the computation offloading strategies based on classical non-convex optimization, game theory, and artificial intelligence are summarized and analyzed. Finally, the future research direction is discussed and prospected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]