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Code offloading is promising to accelerate mobile applications and save energy of mobile devices by shifting some computation to cloud. However, existing code offloading systems suffer from a long communication delay between mobile devices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Li Lin , Xiaofei Liao

As software may be used by multiple users, caching popular software at the wireless edge has been considered to save computation and communications resources for mobile edge computing (MEC). However, fetching uncached software from the core…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Wanli Wen , Ying Cui , Tony Q. S. Quek , Fu-Chun Zheng , Shi Jin

The exponential growth of data storage demands has necessitated the evolution of hierarchical storage management strategies [1]. This study explores the application of streaming machine learning [3] to revolutionize data prefetching within…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Chiyu Cheng , Chang Zhou , Yang Zhao , Jin Cao

We present a model for measuring the impact of offloading soft real-time jobs over multi-tier cloud infrastructures. The jobs originate in mobile devices and offloading strategies may choose to execute them locally, in neighbouring devices,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Joaquim Silva , Eduardo R. B. Marques , Luís M. B Lopes , Fernando Silva

Computation task service delivery in a computing-enabled and caching-aided multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) system is studied in this paper, where a MEC server can deliver the input or output datas of tasks to mobile devices over a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Hui Liu

In this paper, the fundamental problem of distribution and proactive caching of computing tasks in fog networks is studied under latency and reliability constraints. In the proposed scenario, computing can be executed either locally at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Mohammed S. Elbamby , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad

The advent of 5G networking technologies has increased the expectations from mobile devices, in that, more sophisticated, computationally intense applications are expected to be delivered on the mobile device which are themselves getting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 S. Eman Mahmoodi , K. P. Subbalakshmi , Vidya Sagar

In this paper, we jointly optimize computation offloading and resource allocation to minimize the weighted sum of energy consumption of all mobile users in a backhaul limited cooperative MEC system with multiple fog servers. Considering the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Phuong-Duy Nguyen , Vu Nguyen Ha , Long Bao Le

Coded caching is a technique that promises huge reductions in network traffic in content-delivery networks. However, the original formulation and several subsequent contributions in the area, assume that the file requests from the users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Hooshang Ghasemi , Aditya Ramamoorthy

Migrating computational intensive tasks from mobile devices to more resourceful cloud servers is a promising technique to increase the computational capacity of mobile devices while saving their battery energy. In this paper, we consider a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Stefania Sardellitti , Gesualdo Scutari , Sergio Barbarossa

To improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices, mobile-edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm by providing computing capabilities in close proximity within a sliced radio access network (RAN), which supports both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Xianfu Chen , Honggang Zhang , Celimuge Wu , Shiwen Mao , Yusheng Ji , Mehdi Bennis

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) emerges as an essential part of the upcoming Fifth Generation (5G) and future beyond-5G mobile communication systems. It adds computational power towards the edge of cellular networks, much closer to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bin Han , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Yihua Xu , Di Feng , Hans D. Schotten

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer are technologies that can assist in the implementation of next generation wireless networks, which will deploy a large number of computational and energy limited devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

To overcome devices' limitations in performing computation-intense applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) enables users to offload tasks to proximal MEC servers for faster task computation. However, current MEC system design is based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

We propose a novel strategy for energy-efficient dynamic computation offloading, in the context of edge-computing-aided beyond 5G networks. The goal is to minimize the energy consumption of the overall system, comprising multiple User…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Mattia Merluzzi , Nicola di Pietro , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

Edge computing has become a very popular service that enables mobile devices to run complex tasks with the help of network-based computing resources. However, edge clouds are often resource-constrained, which makes resource allocation a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Caroline Rublein , Fidan Mehmeti , Mark Mahon , Thomas F. La Porta

In mobile edge computing systems, mobile devices can offload compute-intensive tasks to a nearby cloudlet,so as to save energy and extend battery life. Unlike a fully-fledged cloud, a cloudlet is a small-scale datacenter deployed at a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Yinghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Khaled Ben Letaief

Mobile edge computing provides users with a cloud environment close to the edge of the wireless network, supporting the computing intensive applications that have low latency requirements. The combination of offloading with the wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Ruoyun Chen , Hancheng Lu , Pengfei Ma

We consider a simple computation offloading model where jobs can either be fully processed in the cloud or be partially processed at a local server before being sent to the cloud to complete processing. Our goal is to design a policy for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Darin Jeff , Eytan Modiano

Scavenging the idling computation resources at the enormous number of mobile devices can provide a powerful platform for local mobile cloud computing. The vision can be realized by peer-to-peer cooperative computing between edge devices,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang