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Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a type of network architecture that provides cloud computing capabilities at the edge of the network. We consider the use case of video surveillance for an university campus running on a 5G-MEC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ricardo N. Boing , Hugo Vaz Sampaio , Fernando Koch , Rene N. S. Cruz , Carlos B. Westphall

Cloud Data Centers have become the backbone infrastructure to provide services. With the emerging edge computing paradigm, computation and networking capabilities have been pushed from clouds to the edge to provide computation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-07 TianZhang He , Rajkumar Buyya

With the growing demand for latency-critical and computation-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) services, the IoT-oriented network architecture, mobile edge computing (MEC), has emerged as a promising technique to reinforce the computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jiechen Chen , Hong Xing , Xiaohui Lin , Arumugam Nallanathan , Suzhi Bi

There is an exponential growth of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These have given rise to applications that rely on real time data to make critical decisions quickly. Enterprises today are adopting cloud at a rapid pace. There…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Vijay Kumar Butte , Sujata Butte

The emerging edge caching provides an effective way to reduce service delay for mobile users. However, due to high deployment cost of edge hosts, a practical problem is how to achieve minimum delay under a proper edge deployment strategy.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Tao Yu , Shunqing Zhang , Xiaojing Chen , Shugong Xu

With the ever-increasing popularity of resource-intensive mobile applications, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), e.g., offloading computationally expensive tasks to the cellular edge, has become a prominent technology for the next generation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Shermila Ranadheera , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

Edge computing can be defined as an emerging technology that uses cloud computing to leverage edge data centers to process, store, and analyze data close to the source. Traditional cloud computing architectures are not designed for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Vivek Basavegowda Ramu

Extreme Edge Computing (EEC) pushes computing even closer to end users than traditional Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), harnessing the idle resources of Extreme Edge Devices (EEDs) to enable low-latency, distributed processing. However,…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yasser Nabil , Mahmoud Abdelhadi , Sameh Sorour , Hesham ElSawy , Sara A. Elsayed , Hossam S. Hassanein

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

Mobile edge caching is a promising technology for the next-generation mobile networks to effectively offer service environment and cloud-storage capabilities at the edge of networks. By exploiting the storage and computing resources at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Jianbing Ni , Kuan Zhang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

In this paper, the imbalance edge cloud based computing offloading for multiple mobile users (MUs) with multiple tasks per MU is studied. In which, several edge cloud servers (ECSs) are shared and accessed by multiple wireless access points…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Weiheng Jiang , Yi Gong , Yang Cao , Xiaogang Wu , Qian Xiao

Edge systems promise to bring data and computing closer to the users of time-critical applications. Specifically, edge storage systems are emerging as a new system paradigm, where users can retrieve data from small-scale servers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Oleg Kolosov , Mehmet Fatih Aktas , Emina Soljanin , Gala Yadgar

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that mobile devices can offload the computation-intensive or latency-critical tasks to the nearby MEC servers, so as to save energy and extend battery life. Unlike the cloud server, MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Kang Cheng , Yinglei Teng , Weiqi Sun , An Liu , Xianbin Wang

In recent years, there is an emerging trend that some computing services are moving from cloud to the edge of the networks. Compared to cloud computing, edge computing can provide services with faster response, lower expense, and more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Jinyue Song , Tianbo Gu , Yunjie Ge , Prasant Mohapatra

In this paper, we consider user location privacy in mobile edge clouds (MECs). MECs are small clouds deployed at the network edge to offer cloud services close to mobile users, and many solutions have been proposed to maximize service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Ting He , Ertugrul N. Ciftcioglu , Shiqiang Wang , Kevin S. Chan

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) promises to enable latency-critical applications by bringing computational power closer to mobile devices, but our measurements on commercial MEC deployments reveal frequent SLO violations due to high tail…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiao Zhang , Daehyeok Kim

This article provides an overview of mobile edge computing (MEC) and artificial intelligence (AI) and discusses the mutually-beneficial relationship between them. AI provides revolutionary solutions in nearly every important aspect of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Ahmed A. Al-habob , Octavia A. Dobre

With the advancement of IoT technology, various domains such as smart factories, smart cities and smart cars use the IoT to provide value-added services. In addition, technologies such as MEC and network slicing provide another opportunity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-25 JaeYoung Hwang , Lionel Nkenyereye , NakMyoung Sung , JaeHo Kim , JaeSeung Song

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a new computing paradigm that enables cloud computing and information technology (IT) services to be delivered at the network's edge. By shifting the load of cloud computing to individual local servers, MEC…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Cheng Wang , Zenghui Yuan , Pan Zhou , Zichuan Xu , Ruixuan Li , Dapeng Oliver Wu