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In the realm of mobile edge computing (MEC), efficient computation task offloading plays a pivotal role in ensuring a seamless quality of experience (QoE) for users. Maintaining a high QoE is paramount in today's interconnected world, where…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Iman Rahmaty , Hamed Shah-Mansouri , Ali Movaghar

This paper studies a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which one base station (BS) serves multiple users with intensive computation tasks. We exploit the multi-antenna non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Zhiguo Ding

This letter investigates computation offloading and transmit precoding co-design for multi-access edge computing (MEC), where multiple MEC users (MUs) equipped with multiple antennas access the MEC server in a non-orthogonal multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Deyou Zhang , Meng Wang , Shuo Shi , Ming Xiao

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged for reducing energy consumption and latency by allowing mobile users to offload computationally intensive tasks to the MEC server. Due to the spectrum reuse in small cell network, the inter-cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Jianen Yan , Ning Li , Zhaoxin Zhang , Alex X. Liu , Jose Fernan Martinez , Xin Yuan

Computational offloading is a promising approach for overcoming resource constraints on client devices by moving some or all of an application's computations to remote servers. With the advent of specialized hardware accelerators, client…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Nathan Ng , David Irwin , Ananthram Swami , Don Towsley , Prashant Shenoy

Exploiting quantum computing at the mobile edge holds immense potential for facilitating large-scale network design, processing multimodal data, optimizing resource management, and enhancing network security. In this paper, we propose a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Mingzhe Chen , Dong In Kim , Xuemin , Shen

The rise of delay-sensitive yet computing-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) applications poses challenges due to the limited processing power of IoT devices. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers a promising solution to address these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Ke Ma , Junfei Xie

Edge computing technology has great potential to improve various computation-intensive applications in vehicular networks by providing sufficient computation resources for vehicles. However, it is still a challenge to fully unleash the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Hewon Cho , Ying Cui , Jemin Lee

The energy transition supports the shift towards more sustainable energy alternatives, paving towards decentralized smart grids, where the energy is generated closer to the point of use. The decentralized smart grids foresee novel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Gabriel Ioan Arcas , Tudor Cioara , Ionut Anghel , Dragos Lazea , Anca Hangan

We propose a novel strategy for energy-efficient dynamic computation offloading, in the context of edge-computing-aided beyond 5G networks. The goal is to minimize the energy consumption of the overall system, comprising multiple User…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Mattia Merluzzi , Nicola di Pietro , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology enables the rapid growth of connected smart devices and mobile applications. However, due to the constrained resources and limited battery capacity, there are bottlenecks when utilizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Minxian Xu , Chengxi Gao , Shashikant Ilager , Huaming Wu , Chengzhong Xu , Rajkumar Buyya

With the rapid advancement of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and vehicular communications, Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) is emerging as a promising technology to support low-latency ITS applications and services. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Arash Bozorgchenani , Setareh Maghsudi , Daniele Tarchi , Ekram Hossain

Fog computing has emerged as a computing paradigm aimed at addressing the issues of latency, bandwidth and privacy when mobile devices are communicating with remote cloud services. The concept is to offload compute services closer to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Ayesha Abdul Majeed , Peter Kilpatrick , Ivor Spence , Blesson Varghese

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

This paper considers an energy harvesting (EH) based multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where each user utilizes the harvested energy from renewable energy sources to execute its computation tasks via computation offloading and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Zhifei Lin , Feng Wang , Licheng Liu

The aim of this paper is to propose a computation offloading strategy for mobile edge computing. We exploit the concept of call graph, which models a generic computer program as a set of procedures related to each other through a weighted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Sergio Barbarossa , Stefania Sardellitti

The (ultra-)dense deployment of small-cell base stations (SBSs) endowed with cloud-like computing functionalities paves the way for pervasive mobile edge computing (MEC), enabling ultra-low latency and location-awareness for a variety of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Lixing Chen , Sheng Zhou , Jie Xu

Virtually all of the rapidly increasing data traffic consumed by mobile users requires some kind of processing, normally performed at cloud servers. A recent thrust, {\em mobile edge computing}, moves such processing to servers {\em within}…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Francesco Malandrino , Scott Kirkpatrick , Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini

We consider the problem of jointly optimizing users' offloading decisions, communication and computing resource allocation in a sliced multi-cell mobile edge computing (MEC) network. We minimize the weighted sum of the gap between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Sheyda Zarandi , Hina Tabassum

This paper investigates an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based mobile-edge computing (MEC) network. Our objective is to minimize the total energy consumption of all users including transmission energy and local computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-18 Zhaohui Yang , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei