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Edge computing is deemed a promising technique to execute latency-sensitive applications by offloading computation-intensive tasks to edge servers. Extensive research has been conducted in the field of end-device to edge server task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiang Li , Mustafa Abdallah , Yuan-Yao Lou , Mung Chiang , Kwang Taik Kim , Saurabh Bagchi

Future mobile networks supporting Internet of Things are expected to provide both high throughput and low latency to user-specific services. One way to overcome this challenge is to adopt network function virtualization and Multi-access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Qi Liao , Manuel Stein , Nikolaos Pappas

Existing works on task offloading in mobile edge computing (MEC) networks often assume a task is executed once at a single edge node (EN). Downloading the computed result from the EN back to the mobile user may suffer long delay if the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Kuikui Li , Meixia Tao , Zhiyong Chen

Many cloud-based applications employ a data centre as a central server to process data that is generated by edge devices, such as smartphones, tablets and wearables. This model places ever increasing demands on communication and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Blesson Varghese , Nan Wang , Sakil Barbhuiya , Peter Kilpatrick , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Edge Computing is a promising technology to provide new capabilities in technological fields that require instantaneous data processing. Researchers in areas such as machine and deep learning use extensively edge and cloud computing for…

Wireless charging coupled with computation offloading in edge networks offers a promising solution for realizing power-hungry and computation intensive applications on user devices. We consider a mutil-access edge computing (MEC) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

The fifth generation of cellular networks (5G) will rely on edge cloud deployments to satisfy the ultra-low latency demand of future applications. In this paper, we argue that such deployments can also be used to enable advanced data-driven…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Michele Polese , Rittwik Jana , Velin Kounev , Ke Zhang , Supratim Deb , Michele Zorzi

In this paper, we investigate a mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture with the assistance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV acts as a computing server to help the user equipment (UEs) compute their tasks as well as a relay to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang , Zhongbin Zheng

This paper studies a multi-user cooperative mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, in which a local mobile user can offload intensive computation tasks to multiple nearby edge devices serving as helpers for remote execution. We focus on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-21 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Jie Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is one of the promising solutions to process computational-intensive tasks for the emerging time-critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) use cases, e.g., virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), autonomous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Jianhui Liu , Qi Zhang

With the emergence of diverse mobile applications (such as augmented reality), the quality of experience of mobile users is greatly limited by their computation capacity and finite battery lifetime. Mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-13 Fuhui Zhou , Yongpeng Wu , Haijian Sun , Zheng Chu

Smart devices have become an indispensable part of our lives and gain increasing applicability in almost every area. Latency-aware applications such as Augmented Reality (AR), autonomous driving, and online gaming demand more resources such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Mostafa Hadadian Nejad Yousefi , Amirmasoud Ghiassi , Boshra Sadat Hashemi , Maziar Goudarzi

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

The Metaverse can be considered the extension of the present-day web, which integrates the physical and virtual worlds, delivering hyper-realistic user experiences. The inception of the Metaverse brings forth many ecosystem services such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Terence Jie Chua , Wenhan Yu , Jun Zhao

Given the proliferation of wireless sensors and smart mobile devices, an explosive escalation of the volume of data is anticipated. However, restricted by their limited physical sizes and low manufacturing costs, these wireless devices tend…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-23 Tong Bai , Cunhua Pan , Chao Han , Lajos Hanzo

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

A conception of mobile edge generation (MEG) is proposed, where generative artificial intelligence (GAI) models are distributed at edge servers (ESs) and user equipment (UE), enabling joint execution of generation tasks. Various distributed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruikang Zhong , Xidong Mu , Yimeng Zhang , Mona Jabor , Yuanwei Liu

To meet the growing local and distributed computing needs, the cloud is now descending to the network edge and sometimes to user equipments. This approach aims at distributing computing, data processing, and networking services closer to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Mathieu Bouet , Vania Conan , Hicham Khalife , Kevin Phemius , Jawad Seddar

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed to boost high-efficient and time-sensitive 5G applications. However, the "microburst" may occur even in lightly-loaded scenarios, which leads to the indeterministic service latency (i.e.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Binwei Wu , Jiasen Wang , Yanyan Wang , Weiqian Tan , Yudong Huang

Generative AI (GenAI) services powered by large language models (LLMs) increasingly deliver real-time interactions, yet existing 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC) architectures often treat communication and computing as separate domains,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Chien-Sheng Yang , Yu-Jen Ku , Yuan-Yao Lou , Nathan Tenny , Alex C. -C. Hsu