A Mobility-aware Flying Edge Computing Service Orchestration with Quality of Service Support

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will be part of last-mile 5G/6G networks and will support Internet of Things (IoT) and low latency services in Flying Edge Computing (FEC). UAVs will densely populate aerial space in smart cities, providing networking and computing to interactive and monitoring services to ground users. FEC is composed of one or a set of UAVs, can cover large areas, and assure the quick deployment of services in 5G/6G systems. FEC will cooperate or even replace edge computing services on the ground network in case of congestion/failure events. However, the efficient selection and orchestration of UAVs to provide Quality of Service (QoS) to mobile users on the ground space is still challenging. This paper proposes a mobility-aware FEC orchestration scheme, called FLYED. FLYED enables UAVs to provide FEC with mobility and QoS support on ground space. Simulation results show the impact and benefits of FLYED in providing QoS assurance compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.