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The burgeoning and ubiquitous deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape struggles with ultra-low latency demands for computation-intensive tasks in massive connectivity scenarios. In this paper, we propose an innovative uplink…

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The incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models into various optimization systems is on the rise. Yet, addressing complex urban and environmental management problems normally requires in-depth domain science and informatics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jose Tupayachi , Haowen Xu , Olufemi A. Omitaomu , Mustafa Can Camur , Aliza Sharmin , Xueping Li

Incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) in Internet of Things (IoT) enables resource-limited IoT devices to offload their computation tasks to a nearby edge server. In this paper, we investigate an IoT system assisted by the MEC technique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Saman Atapattu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

To mitigate computational power gap between the network core and edges, mobile edge computing (MEC) is poised to play a fundamental role in future generations of wireless networks. In this letter, we consider a non-orthogonal multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Vaibhav Kumar , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

Taking inspiration from nature for meta-heuristics has proven popular and relatively successful. Many are inspired by the collective intelligence exhibited by insects, fish and birds. However, there is a question over their scalability to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Darren M. Chitty , Elizabeth Wanner , Rakhi Parmar , Peter R. Lewis

This paper addresses the challenge of efficiently offloading heavy computing tasks from ground mobile devices to the satellite-based mist computing environment. With ground-based edge and cloud servers often being inaccessible, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Messaoud Babaghayou , Noureddine Chaib , Leandros Maglaras , Yagmur Yigit , Mohamed Amine Ferrag

This letter investigates a cache-enabled multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system with dynamic task arrivals, taking into account the impact of proactive cache placement on the system's overall energy consumption. We consider that an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jingxuan Liang , Hong Xing , Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Various mobile applications that comprise dependent tasks are gaining widespread popularity and are increasingly complex. These applications often have low-latency requirements, resulting in a significant surge in demand for computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jiagang Liu , Yun Mi , Xinyu Zhang , Xiaocui Li

This paper investigates compact large language model (LLM) deployment and world-model-assisted inference offloading in mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. We first propose an edge compact LLM deployment (ECLD) framework that jointly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ruichen Zhang , Xiaofeng Luo , Jiayi He , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Yonghui Li

Our middleware approach, Context-Oriented Software Middleware (COSM), supports context-dependent software with self-adaptability and dependability in a mobile computing environment. The COSM-middleware is a generic and platform-independent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Basel Magableh

As the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices keeps increasing, data is required to be communicated and processed by these devices at unprecedented rates. Cooperation among wireless devices by exploiting Device-to-Device (D2D)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Raheleh Khodabakhsh , Hulya Seferoglu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides low-latency offloading solutions for computationally intensive tasks, effectively improving the computing efficiency and battery life of mobile devices. However, for data-intensive tasks or scenarios…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xuyang Chen , Daquan Feng , Wei Jiang , Qu Luo , Gaojie Chen , Yao Sun

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the birth of various new IoT devices, the capacity of massive IoT devices is facing challenges. Fortunately, edge computing can optimize problems such as delay and connectivity by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Shihao Shen , Yiwen Han , Xiaofei Wang , Yan Wang

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

In this paper, a novel paradigm of mobile edge-quantum computing (MEQC) is proposed, which brings quantum computing capacities to mobile edge networks that are closer to mobile users (i.e., edge devices). First, we propose an MEQC system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Mingzhe Chen

With the establishment of cloud computing as the environment of choice for most modern applications, auto-scaling is an economic matter of great importance. For applications like stream computing that process ever changing amounts of data,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Andre Abrantes D. P. Souza , Marco A. S. Netto

With the emergence of more and more applications of Internet-of-Things (IoT) mobile devices (IMDs), a contradiction between mobile energy demand and limited battery capacity becomes increasingly prominent. In addition, in ultra-dense IoT…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Tianqing Zhou , Yali Yue , Dong Qin , Xuefang Nie , Xuan Li , Chunguo Li

In recent years, with the prediction of Moore's law slowing down, utilization of hardware other than CPU such as FPGA which is energy effective is increasing. However, when using heterogeneous hardware other than CPUs, barriers of technical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yoji Yamato

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) can enhance the computing capability of mobile devices, while non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can provide high data rates. Combining these two strategies can effectively benefit the network with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Fang Fang , Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Chao Shen , Mugen Peng , George K. Karagiannidis

Today, vehicles use smart sensors to collect data from the road environment. This data is often processed onboard of the vehicles, using expensive hardware. Such onboard processing increases the vehicle's cost, quickly drains its battery,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Anselme Ndikumana , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet