FIGURE 1 - available via license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Content may be subject to copyright.
Source publication
Quick response to disasters is crucial for saving lives and reducing loss. This requires low-latency uploading of situation information to the remote command center. Since terrestrial infrastructures are often damaged in disaster areas, non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are preferable to provide network coverage, and mobile edge computing (MEC) could...
Context in source publication
Context 1
... shown in Fig. 1, we consider a basic model of the EIH-empowered NTN, which consists of U users, a UAV equipped with an EIH, and a satellite (could be LEO or GEO). Each user u has sensing data of size D u to upload. To simplify the model, we assume that both the satellite and the UAV are regarded as static during the data uploading. This means that if ...
