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Nowadays, we are witnessing the advent of the Internet of Things (EC) with numerous devices performing interactions between them or with end users. The huge number of devices leads to huge volumes of collected data that demand the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Panagiotis Oikonomou , Anna Karanika , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Kostas Kolomvatsos

This paper focuses on edge caching in dense heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets), in which small base stations (SBSs) with limited cache size store the popular contents, and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided macro…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Lifeng Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Maged Elkashlan

To support the growing demand for data-intensive and low-latency IoT applications, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is emerging as an effective edge-computing approach enabling the execution of delay-sensitive processing tasks close to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Simone Bolettieri , Raffaele Bruno , Enzo Mingozzi

The Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) system located close to the client allows mobile smart devices to offload their computations onto edge servers, enabling them to benefit from low-latency computing services. Both cloud service providers and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yanheng Guo , Yan Zhang , Linjie Wu , Mengxia Li , Xingjuan Cai , Jinjun Chen

Mobile edge computing (MEC) pushes computing resources to the edge of the network and distributes them at the edge of the mobile network. Offloading computing tasks to the edge instead of the cloud can reduce computing latency and backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Run Yang , Hui He , Weizhe Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising approach for enabling cloud-computing capabilities at the edge of cellular networks. Nonetheless, security is becoming an increasingly important issue in MEC-based applications. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yuanfang Chen , Yan Zhang , Sabita Maharjan

Disaggregating memory from compute offers the opportunity to better utilize stranded memory in cloud data centers. It is important to cache data in the compute nodes and maintain cache coherence across multiple compute nodes. However, the…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Ruihong Wang , Jianguo Wang , Walid G. Aref

Collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to enable low-capability edge nodes to cooperatively execute computation-intensive tasks. However, straggling edge nodes (stragglers) significantly degrade the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Houming Qiu , Kun Zhu , Dusit Niyato , Nguyen Cong Luong , Changyan Yi , Chen Dai

As a key technology in the 5G era, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has developed rapidly in recent years. MEC aims to reduce the service delay of mobile users, while alleviating the processing pressure on the core network. MEC can be regarded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Minxian Xu , Qiheng Zhou , Huaming Wu , Weiwei Lin , Kejiang Ye , Chengzhong Xu

To overcome devices' limitations in performing computation-intense applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) enables users to offload tasks to proximal MEC servers for faster task computation. However, current MEC system design is based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we study a mobile edge computing (MEC) system in which the mobile device is assisted by a base station (BS) and a cooperative node. The mobile device has sequential tasks to complete, whereas the cooperative node assists the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Xiangg Li , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

Caching at the base stations brings the contents closer to the users, reduces the traffic through the backhaul links, and reduces the delay experienced by the cellular users. The cellular network operator may charge the content providers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Ammar Gharaibeh , Abdallah Khreishah , Bo Ji , Moussa Ayyash

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) holds excellent potential in Congestion Management (CM) of 6G vehicular networks. A reasonable schedule of MEC ensures a more reliable and efficient CM system. Unfortunately, existing parallel and sequential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ke Deng , Zhiyuan He , Haohan Lin , Hao Zhang , Desheng Wang

Web Service Composition (WSC) is a particularly promising application of Web services, where multiple individual services with specific functionalities are composed to accomplish a more complex task, which must fulfil functional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Soheila Sadeghiram , Hui Ma , Gang Chen

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

We propose a decentralized caching policy for wireless heterogeneous networks that makes content placement decisions based on pairwise interactions between cache nodes. We call our proposed scheme {\gamma}-exclusion cache placement (GEC),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Derya Malak , Muriel Médard , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Edge-cloud collaborative computing (ECCC) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for addressing the computational demands of modern intelligent applications, integrating cloud resources with edge devices to enable efficient, low-latency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jing Liu , Yao Du , Kun Yang , Jiaqi Wu , Yan Wang , Xiping Hu , Zehua Wang , Yang Liu , Peng Sun , Azzedine Boukerche , Victor C. M. Leung

Facing a vast amount of connections, huge performance demands, and the need for reliable connectivity, the sixth generation of communication networks (6G) is envisioned to implement disruptive technologies that jointly spur connectivity,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Robert-Jeron Reifert , Hayssam Dahrouj , Basem Shihada , Aydin Sezgin , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider the problem of task offloading in multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems constituting $N$ devices assisted by an edge server (ES), where the devices can split task execution between a local processor and the ES. Since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , Tamer Başar

In multi-access edge computing (MEC), most existing task software caching works focus on statically caching data at the network edge, which may hardly preserve high reusability due to the time-varying user requests in practice. To this end,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Zhixiong Chen , Wenqiang Yi , Atm S. Alam , Arumugam Nallanathan