Mobility introduces significant challenges for optimal computation offloading, latency minimization, and efficient re source utilization in multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems. A key difficulty lies in leveraging real user trajectories to jointly optimize horizontal (inter-edge) and vertical (edge-to-cloud) task offloading decisions. This paper proposes a two-dimensional offloading scheme for a multi-layer edge–cloud architecture that enables collaborative task execution among resource-constrained edge nodes under mobility conditions. We present MGCO (Mobility-Aware Generative Computation Offloading), a generative AI–driven Transformer-based sequence-to-sequence Deep Q-Network (s2s-DQN) framework that learns from real-time trajectory data to anticipate user movement and optimize task placement dynamically. The Transformer architecture is adopted because its multi-head self-attention effectively captures long range dependencies in mobility and task-demand patterns while avoiding vanishing gradients and sequential bottlenecks inherent to LSTM/GRU models. This design enables parallel contextual reasoning and stable autoregressive action generation, supporting real-time offloading decisions within strict operational latency constraints. Experimental results demonstrate that MGCO consistently outperforms existing methods, achieving up to 41.61% reduction in turnaround time compared to GASTO, and substantial improvements over DMQTO and HMAOA, reaching up to 645.40% and 751.90%, respectively, for longer prediction horizons (48 time slots of 5 seconds each). These results highlight MGCO's robustness, scalability, and effectiveness in managing complex mobility scenarios in dynamic edge–cloud environments.

Rapid technical advancements in recent times have made it possible to produce a class of affordable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which can serve a wide range of public and private users for different industrial or non-industrial requirements. It is very complex to set up a communication network among the UAVs, which is very essential for completing any task like collecting data in extreme weather conditions. For UAV placement, we have suggested a distributed approach using PPO-based reinforcement learning; here, UAVs are utilized as aerial access points to create a mesh network that connects to ground nodes positioned in a designated area and can collect data from ground nodes to predict weather conditions. Our objective is to fulfill each ground node’s data rate requirements while deploying the fewest number of UAVs possible to cover it. The convex hull formation of swarm uavs satisfy our objective, which arranges the n uavs on a convex hull’s vertex. In this study, we present a deep reinforcement learning-based method for building swarm uavs with convex hull patterns in the euclidean plane. The existing research on convex hull pattern generation uses heuristic and combinatorial optimization techniques and evaluates performance in terms of time and space consumed. Convex hull patterns increase the mutual visibility of swarm UAVs, which helps in the cooperation of UAVs. In our research for the first time, convex hull pattern formation around a given target point is accomplished using PPO-based Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL).

Resource-constrained edge devices can not efficiently handle the explosive growth of mobile data and the increasing computational demand of modern-day user applications. Task offloading allows the migration of complex tasks from user devices to the remote edge-cloud servers thereby reducing their computational burden and energy consumption while also improving the efficiency of task processing. However, obtaining the optimal offloading strategy in a multi-task offloading decision-making process is an NP-hard problem. Existing Deep learning techniques with slow learning rates and weak adaptability are not suitable for dynamic multi-user scenarios. In this article, we propose a novel deep meta-reinforcement learning-based approach to the multi-task offloading problem using a combination of first-order meta-learning and deep Q-learning methods. We establish the meta-generalization bounds for the proposed algorithm and demonstrate that it can reduce the time and energy consumption of IoT applications by up to 15%. Through rigorous simulations, we show that our method achieves near-optimal offloading solutions while also being able to adapt to dynamic edge-cloud environments.

Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, it has become increasingly critical to have fast, cheap, and reliable tools to assist physicians in diagnosing COVID19. Several automated systems using deep learning techniques have demonstrated promising results by analyzing Computed Tomography (CT-scan) or X-ray data to complement conventional diagnostic tools. In this paper, we aim to emphasize the role of point-of-care ultrasound imaging using deep learning as a tool to detect COVID-19 more prominently. Ultrasound imaging is non-invasive and widely available in medical facilities all over the world. This paper presents an ensemble technique based on Sugeno Fuzzy Integrals with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as the base model. It classifies lung ultrasound (LUS) images of patients into COVID-19 and Non-COVID-19 categories. The lack of COVID-19 data makes it challenging to train a traditional CNN from scratch, so we have adapted a transfer learning approach instead of training the base classifiers VGG16, ResNet-50, and GoogLeNet. We apply the gained knowledge in the target domain of small lung ultrasound frames, considering the ImageNet dataset as the source domain. We have also adapted image pre-processing techniques to remove noises so that the model can only focus on specific features. Our proposed framework is evaluated on a publicly available dataset, achieving 96.7% accuracy. The proposed architecture outperforms the state-of-the-art method on the same dataset and proves to be a reliable COVID-19 detector.