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The objective is to maximize the system utility with constrained network stability, transmit power, and data arrival rate. We consider a general multi-user UAV-assisted MEC system based on frequency division multiple access (FDMA), and we assume that the computation tasks are split into separate tasks and offloaded to the server for computing. We study stochastic computational resource management based on the Lyapunov optimization algorithm. The optimal transmit power and bandwidth allocation for computation offloading are obtained alternately, and the optimal computation task admission at each time slot and the optimal value of the auxiliary variable are derived. 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