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Mobile networks are experiencing tremendous increase in data volume and user density. An efficient technique to alleviate this issue is to bring the data closer to the users by exploiting the caches of edge network nodes, such as fixed or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Nikolaos Nomikos , Spyros Zoupanos , Themistoklis Charalambous , Ioannis Krikidis , Athina Petropulu

Cellular network performance can significantly benefit from direct device-to-device (D2D) communication, but interference from cochannel D2D communication limits the performance gain. In hybrid networks consisting of D2D and cellular links,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Qiaoyang Ye , Mazin Al-Shalash , Constantine Caramanis , Jeffrey G. Andrews

With the explosive growth in demand for mobile traffic, one of the promising solutions is to offload cellular traffic to small base stations for better system efficiency. Due to increasing system complexity, network operators are facing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chih-Wei Huang , Po-Chen Chen

Offloading data traffic from Infrastructure-to-Device (I2D) to Device-to-Device (D2D) communications is a powerful tool for reducing congestion, energy consumption, and spectrum usage of mobile cellular networks. Prior network-level studies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Loreto Pescosolido , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Edge-caching has received much attention as an efficient technique to reduce delivery latency and network congestion during peak-traffic times by bringing data closer to end users. Existing works usually design caching algorithms separately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising approach to optimize the utilization of air interface resources in 5G networks, since it allows decentralized opportunistic short-range communication. For D2D to be useful, mobile nodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derya Malak , Mazin Al-Shalash , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We consider a multi-user multi-server mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which users arrive on a network randomly over time and generate computation tasks, which will be computed either locally on their own computing devices or be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Muhammad Sohaib , Sang-Woon Jeon , Wei Yu

Over the last decade, the growing amount of UL and DL mobile data traffic has been characterized by substantial asymmetry and time variations. Dynamic time-division duplex (TDD) has the capability to accommodate to the traffic asymmetry by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Hongguang Sun , Matthias Wildemeersch , Min Sheng , Tony Q. S. Quek

Next generation cellular networks will be heterogeneous with dense deployment of small cells in order to deliver high data rate per unit area. Traffic variations are more pronounced in a small cell, which in turn lead to more dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

Recent exponential growth of data over cellular networks has cause the progression from conventional mobile communication networks to heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets). Quality of experience (QoE)-aware traffic load balancing in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Sanaullah Manzoor , Ahmad Asghar , Suleman Mazhar , Adnan Noor Mian , Ali Imran

The ever-growing end user data demands, and the simultaneous reductions in memory costs are fueling edge-caching deployments. Caching at the edge is substantially different from that at the core and needs to take into account the nature of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Guocong Quan , Atilla Eryilmaz , Ness Shroff

With the rapid advancement of large models and mobile edge computing, transfer learning, particularly through fine-tuning, has become crucial for adapting models to downstream tasks. Traditionally, this requires users to share their data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Zefan Wang , Yitong Wang , Jun Zhao

Caching of popular content on wireless nodes is recently proposed as a means to reduce congestion in the backbone of cellular networks and to improve Quality of Service. From a network point of view, the goal is to offload as many users as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Jonatan Krolikowski , Anastasios Giovanidis , Marco Di Renzo

The need for efficient use of network resources is continuously increasing with the grow of traffic demand, however, current mobile systems have been planned and deployed so far with the mere aim of enhancing radio coverage and capacity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-31 Mustafa Emara , Miltiades C. Filippou , Dario Sabella

In this paper, we consider the mobile edge offloading scenario consisting of one mobile device (MD) with multiple independent tasks and various remote edge devices. In order to save energy, the user's device can offload the tasks to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Minh Hoang Ly , Thinh Quang Dinh , Ha Hoang Kha

Caching at the edge is a promising technique to cope with the increasing data demand in wireless networks. This paper analyzes the performance of cellular networks consisting of a tier macro-cell wireless backhaul nodes overlaid with a tier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Italo Atzeni , Marco Maso , Imène Ghamnia , Ejder Baştuğ , Mérouane Debbah

Mobile cellular networks are becoming increasingly complex to manage while classical deployment/optimization techniques and current solutions (i.e., cell densification, acquiring more spectrum, etc.) are cost-ineffective and thus seen as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Ejder Baştuğ , Mehdi Bennis , Engin Zeydan , Manhal Abdel Kader , Alper Karatepe , Ahmet Salih Er , Mérouane Debbah

Within the framework of a Device-to-Device (D2D) data offloading system for cellular networks, we propose a Content Delivery Management System (CDMS) in which the instant for transmitting a content to a requesting node, through a D2D…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Loreto Pescosolido , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Driven by great demands on low-latency services of the edge devices (EDs), mobile edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the computing capacities at the edge of the radio access network. However, conventional MEC servers suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Pengfei Wang , Zijie Zheng , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

Edge computing is an emerging paradigm to enable low-latency applications, like mobile augmented reality, because it takes the computation on processing devices that are closer to the users. On the other hand, the need for highly scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella