Optimal Communication-Computing-Caching for Maximizing Revenue in UAV-Aided Mobile Edge Computing

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used to provide enhanced information coverage as well as relay services for Internet of Things (IoT). Constrained by the limited computation and battery capabilities of IoT devices, computational-intensive tasks are difficult to be tackled locally. In this paper, a UAV-aided mobile edge computing (UAMEC) system is constructed to assist IoT devices to tackle computational-intensive tasks. Furthermore, we jointly optimize communications, computing and caching resources allocation strategies for the sake of maximizing the net revenue from the UAMEC under the condition of guaranteeing user’s quality of experience (QoE). A multi-dimensional hybrid adaptive particle swarm (MHAPSO) algorithm is conceived to solve this joint optimization problem. Finally, the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed scheme are demonstrated.