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Multiple access mobile edge computing is an emerging technique to bring computation resources close to end mobile users. By deploying edge servers at WiFi access points or cellular base stations, the computation capabilities of mobile users…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Xin Long , Jigang Wu , Long Chen

To improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices, mobile-edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm by providing computing capabilities within radio access networks in close proximity. Nevertheless, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xianfu Chen , Honggang Zhang , Celimuge Wu , Shiwen Mao , Yusheng Ji , Mehdi Bennis

Mobile devices supporting the "Internet of Things" (IoT), often have limited capabilities in computation, battery energy, and storage space, especially to support resource-intensive applications involving virtual reality (VR), augmented…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jianyu Wang , Jianli Pan , Flavio Esposito , Prasad Calyam , Zhicheng Yang , Prasant Mohapatra

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm to meet the ever-increasing computation demands from mobile applications. By offloading the computationally intensive workloads to the MEC server, the quality of computation experience,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Mobile edge computing (MEC) emerges recently as a promising solution to relieve resource-limited mobile devices from computation-intensive tasks, which enables devices to offload workloads to nearby MEC servers and improve the quality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zhao Chen , Xiaodong Wang

Owing to the resource-constrained feature of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, offloading tasks from IoT devices to the nearby mobile edge computing (MEC) servers can not only save the energy of IoT devices but also reduce the response time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zeinab Akhavan , Mona Esmaeili , Babak Badnava , Mohammad Yousefi , Xiang Sun , Michael Devetsikiotis , Payman Zarkesh-Ha

With the fast development of mobile edge computing (MEC), there is an increasing demand for running complex applications on the edge. These complex applications can be represented as workflows where task dependencies are explicitly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xuejun Li , Tianxiang Chen , Dong Yuan , Jia Xu , Xiao Liu

In this paper, we consider resource allocation for edge computing in internet of things (IoT) networks. Specifically, each end device is considered as an agent, which makes its decisions on whether offloading the computation tasks to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Xiaolan Liu , Zhijin Qin , Yue Gao

As wireless services and applications become more sophisticated and require faster and higher-capacity networks, there is a need for an efficient management of the execution of increasingly complex tasks based on the requirements of each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Jungyeon Baek , Georges Kaddoum

The huge amount of data generated by the Internet of things (IoT) devices needs the computational power and storage capacity provided by cloud, edge, and fog computing paradigms. Each of these computing paradigms has its own pros and cons.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Binayak Kar , Widhi Yahya , Ying-Dar Lin , Asad Ali

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology that provides cloud and IT services within the proximity of the mobile user. With the increasing number of mobile applications, mobile devices (MD) encounter limitations of their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Mahla Rahati-Quchani , Saeid Abrishami , Mehdi Feizi

Nowadays, data caching is being used as a high-speed data storage layer in mobile edge computing networks employing flow control methodologies at an exponential rate. This study shows how to discover the best architecture for backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amir Ziaeddini , Amin Mohajer , Davoud Yousefi , A. Mirzaei , Shu Gonglee

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been increasingly used in our everyday lives as well as in numerous industrial applications. However, due to limitations in computing and power capabilities, IoT devices need to send their respective tasks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ziad Qais Al Abbasi , Khaled M. Rabie , Senior Member , Xingwang Li , Senior Member , Wali Ullah Khan , Asma Abu Samah

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is essential for next-generation mobile network applications that prioritize various performance metrics, including delays and energy consumption. However, conventional single-objective scheduling solutions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Ning Yang , Junrui Wen , Meng Zhang , Ming Tang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) (a.k.a. fog computing) has recently emerged to enable low-latency and location-aware data processing at the edge of mobile networks. Since providing grid power supply in support of MEC can be costly and even…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Jie Xu , Hang Wu , Lixing Chen , Cong Shen , Wujie Wen

Mobile networks are experiencing tremendous increase in data volume and user density. An efficient technique to alleviate this issue is to bring the data closer to the users by exploiting the caches of edge network nodes, such as fixed or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Nikolaos Nomikos , Spyros Zoupanos , Themistoklis Charalambous , Ioannis Krikidis , Athina Petropulu

Future immersive XR applications will require energy-efficient, high data rate, and low-latency wireless communications in uplink and downlink. One of the key considerations for supporting such XR applications is intelligent and adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Alperen Duru , Mohammad Mozaffari , Ticao Zhang , Mehrnaz Afshang

Fog computing is an emerging paradigm that aims to meet the increasing computation demands arising from the billions of devices connected to the Internet. Offloading services of an application from the Cloud to the edge of the network can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Nan Wang , Blesson Varghese

Wireless network optimization has been becoming very challenging as the problem size and complexity increase tremendously, due to close couplings among network entities with heterogeneous service and resource requirements. By continuously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Shimin Gong , Yutong Xie , Jing Xu , Dusit Niyato , Ying-Chang Liang