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In Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) networks, users covered by a mobile network can exploit edge clouds (ECs), computational resources located at the network's edge, to execute virtual network functions (VNFs). ECs are particularly useful…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Federico Giarrè , Holger Karl

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

Edge computing seeks to enable applications with strict latency requirements by utilizing compute resources deployed closer to the users. The diverse, dynamic, and constrained nature of edge infrastructures necessitates a flexible…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Giovanni Bartolomeo , Mehdi Yosofie , Simon Bäurle , Oliver Haluszczynski , Nitinder Mohan , Jörg Ott

Dealing with a growing amount of data is a crucial challenge for the future of information and communication technologies. More and more devices are expected to transfer data through the Internet, therefore new solutions have to be designed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Luca Serena , Mirko Zichichi , Gabriele D'Angelo , Stefano Ferretti

Network function Virtualization (NFV) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are promising 5G technologies to support resource-demanding mobile applications. In NFV, one must process the service function chain (SFC) in which a set of network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Phuong-Duy Nguyen , Long Bao Le

Future networks (including 6G) are poised to accelerate the realisation of Internet of Everything. However, it will result in a high demand for computing resources to support new services. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yuelin Liu , Haiyuan Li , Xenofon Vasilakos , Rasheed Hussain , Dimitra Simeonidou

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

This paper explores the advancement of Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) as a tailored application of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) for the automotive industry, addressing the rising demand for real-time processing in connected and autonomous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mahsa Paknejad , Parisa Fard Moshiri , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Hussein T. Mouftah

Vehicular edge computing is a new distributed processing architecture that exploits the revolution in the processing capabilities of vehicles to provide energy efficient services and low delay for Internet of Things (IoT)-based systems.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Amal A. Alahmadi , T. E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) generated a plethora of data prior to support various vehicle applications. Thus, a big storage and high computation platform is necessary, and this is possible with the presence of Cloud Computing (CC). However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Rudzidatul Akmam Dziyauddin , Dusit Niyato , Nguyen Cong Luong , Mohd Azri Mohd Izhar , Marwan Hadhari , Salwani Daud

Edge computing is an emerging technology which places computing at the edge of the network to provide an ultra-low latency. Computation offloading, a paradigm that migrates computing from mobile devices to remote servers, can now use the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Li Lin , Peng Li , Jinbo Xiong , Mingwei Lin

Nowadays a wide range of applications is constrained by low-latency requirements that cloud infrastructures cannot meet. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been proposed as the reference architecture for executing applications closer to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Luciano Baresi , Davide Yi Xian Hu , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Luca Terracciano

This work considers a parallel task execution strategy in vehicular edge computing (VEC) networks, where edge servers are deployed along the roadside to process offloaded computational tasks of vehicular users. To minimize the overall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sungho Cho , Sung Il Choi , Seung Hyun Oh , Ian P. Roberts , Sang Hyun Lee

In this paper, we jointly consider communication, caching and computation in a multi-user cache-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system, consisting of one base station (BS) of caching and computing capabilities and multiple users with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Ying Cui , Wen He , Chun Ni , Chengjun Guo , Zhi Liu

Game Theory (GT) has been used with significant success to formulate, and either design or optimize, the operation of many representative communications and networking scenarios. The games in these scenarios involve, as usual, diverse…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Jose Moura , David Hutchison

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) aims to extend cloud service to the network edge to reduce network traffic and service latency. A fundamental problem in MEC is how to efficiently offload heterogeneous tasks of mobile applications from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jin Wang , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Albert Y. Zomaya , Nektarios Georgalas

As one key enabler of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) has received remarkable interest from academia and industry. The emerging vehicular applications and the exponential growing data have naturally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Lei Liu , Chen Chen , Qingqi Pei , Sabita Maharjan , Yan Zhang

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

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

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) will enable context-aware services for users of mobile 4G/5G networks. MEC application developers need tools to aid the design and the performance evaluation of their apps. During the early stages of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Alessandro Noferi , Giovanni Nardini , Giovanni Stea , Antonio Virdis