Sixth generation will exploit satellite, aerial, and terrestrial platforms jointly to improve radio access capability and unlock the support of on‐demand edge cloud services in three‐dimensional (3D) space, by incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) functionalities on aerial platforms and low‐orbit satellites. This will extend the MEC support to devices and network elements in the sky and forge a space‐borne MEC, enabling intelligent, personalized, and distributed on‐demand services. End users will experience the impression of being surrounded by a distributed computer, fulfilling their requests with apparently zero latency. In this paper, we consider an architecture that provides communication, computation, and caching (C3) services on demand, anytime, and everywhere in 3D space, integrating conventional ground (terrestrial) base stations and flying (non‐terrestrial) nodes. Given the complexity of the overall network, the C3 resources and management of aerial devices need to be jointly orchestrated via artificial intelligence‐based algorithms, exploiting virtualized network functions dynamically deployed in a distributed manner across terrestrial and non‐terrestrial nodes.

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天空中的6G：3D网络边缘的按需智能（特邀论文）

第六代将通过在空中平台和移动平台上合并移动边缘计算（MEC）功能，来联合利用卫星，空中和地面平台来改善无线电访问能力并释放对三维（3D）空间中按需边缘云服务的支持。低轨道卫星。这将把MEC支持扩展到空中的设备和网络元素，并打造一个太空型MEC，从而实现智能，个性化和分布式按需服务。最终用户将感受到被分布式计算机包围的印象，以零延迟的速度满足他们的请求。在本文中，我们考虑一种可在3D空间中随时随地按需提供通信，计算和缓存（C3）服务的体系结构，集成了常规地面（地面）基站和飞行（非地面）节点。考虑到整个网络的复杂性，C3资源和空中设备的管理需要通过基于人工智能的算法进行联合编排，利用在地面和非地面节点之间以分布式方式动态部署的虚拟化网络功能。