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Computational offloading is a promising approach for overcoming resource constraints on client devices by moving some or all of an application's computations to remote servers. With the advent of specialized hardware accelerators, client…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Nathan Ng , David Irwin , Ananthram Swami , Don Towsley , Prashant Shenoy

The continuous evolution of future mobile communication systems is heading towards the integration of communication and computing, with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) emerging as a crucial means of implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Xinyang Du , Xuming Fang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables rich services in close proximity to the end users to provide high quality of experience (QoE) and contributes to energy conservation compared with local computing, but results in increased communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mingxiong Zhao , Jun-Jie Yu , Wen-Tao Li , Di Liu , Shaowen Yao , Wei Feng , Changyang She , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this work, we study the problem of energy-efficient computation offloading enabled by edge computing. In the considered scenario, multiple users simultaneously compete for limited radio and edge computing resources to get offloaded tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Mohamed Sana , Mattia Merluzzi , Nicola di Pietro , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Technological evolution of mobile user equipments (UEs), such as smartphones or laptops, goes hand-in-hand with evolution of new mobile applications. However, running computationally demanding applications at the UEs is constrained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Pavel Mach , Zdenek Becvar

Edge computing plays an essential role in the vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) networks, where vehicles offload their intensive computation tasks to the road-side units for saving energy and reduce the latency. This paper designs the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xinyu You , Haojie Yan , Yuedong Xu , Lifeng Wang , Liangui Dai

The increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices generates a greater demand for data transfers and puts increased pressure on networks. Additionally, connectivity to cloud services can be costly and inefficient. Fog computing provides…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Faten Alenizi , Omer Rana

In this paper, we propose a novel offloading learning approach to compromise energy consumption and latency in multi-tier network with mobile edge computing. In order to solve this integer programming problem, instead of using conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Shuhan Zhu , Wei Xu , Lisheng Fan , Kezhi Wang , George K. Karagiannidis

Computation offloading is often used in mobile cloud, edge, and/or fog computing to cope with resource limitations of mobile devices in terms of computational power, storage, and energy. Computation offloading is particularly challenging in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Artur Sterz , Lars Baumgärtner , Jonas höchst , Patrick Lampe , Bernd Freisleben

The rapid growth of global data volumes has created a demand for scalable distributed systems that can maintain a high quality of service. Data replication is a widely used technique that provides fault tolerance, improved performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Amir Najjar , Riad Mokadem , Jean-Marc Pierson

Edge intelligent applications like VR/AR and language model based chatbots have become widespread with the rapid expansion of IoT and mobile devices. However, constrained edge devices often cannot serve the increasingly large and complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zongshun Zhang , Ibrahim Matta

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

By acquiring cloud-like capacities at the edge of a network, edge computing is expected to significantly improve user experience. In this paper, we formulate a hybrid edge-cloud computing system where an edge device with limited local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Thinh Quang Dinh , Ben Liang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Hyundong Shin

Fog and Edge computing extend cloud services to the proximity of end users, allowing many Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, particularly latency-critical applications. Smart devices, such as traffic and surveillance cameras, often do not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mohammad Goudarzi , Maria A. Rodriguez , Majid Sarvi , Rajkumar Buyya

The recent advances aiming to enable in-network service provisioning are empowering a plethora of smart infrastructure developments, including smart cities, and intelligent transportation systems. Although edge computing in conjunction with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman , Muhammad Salahuddin , Spyridon Mastorakis , Byung-Seo Kim

Learning at the edge is a challenging task from several perspectives, since data must be collected by end devices (e.g. sensors), possibly pre-processed (e.g. data compression), and finally processed remotely to output the result of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Mattia Merluzzi , Claudio Battiloro , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Edge sensing and computing is rapidly becoming part of intelligent infrastructure architecture leading to operational reliance on such systems in disaster or emergency situations. In such scenarios there is a high chance of power supply…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Talha Azfar , Kaicong Huang , Ruimin Ke

Industry 4.0 becomes possible through the convergence between Operational and Information Technologies. All the requirements to realize the convergence is integrated on the Fog Platform. Fog Platform is introduced between the cloud server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Jia Qian , Sayantan Sengupta , Lars Kai Hansen

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a new paradigm that provides cloud computing services at the edge of networks. To achieve better performance with limited computing resources, peer offloading between cooperative edge servers (e.g. MEC-…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Xingqiu He , Sheng Wang

Edge Computing (EC) is about remodeling the way data is handled, processed, and delivered within a vast heterogeneous network. One of the fundamental concepts of EC is to push the data processing near the edge by exploiting front-end…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Raby Hamadi , Abdullah Khanfor , Hakim Ghazzai , Yehia Massoud