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We develop a novel framework for fully decentralized offloading policy design in multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems. The system comprises $N$ power-constrained user equipments (UEs) assisted by an edge server (ES) to process incoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Shubham Aggarwal , Melih Bastopcu , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Tamer Başar , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

Computation offloading and resource allocation are critical in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to handle the massive and complex requirements of applications restricted by limited resources. In a multi-user multi-server MEC network, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianyi Shi , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Rong Huang , Yapeng Wang

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

Efficient data access in High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems is essential to the performance of intensive computing tasks. Traditional optimizations of the I/O stack aim to improve peak performance but are often workload specific and…

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Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as the enabling platform for a variety of promising applications, such as smart transportation and smart city, where massive devices are interconnected for data collection and processing. These IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Laha Ale , Ning Zhang , Xiaojie Fang , Xianfu Chen , Shaohua Wu , Longzhuang Li

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

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jianhui Liu , Qi Zhang

As novel applications spring up in future network scenarios, the requirements on network service capabilities for differentiated services or burst services are diverse. Aiming at the research of collaborative computing and resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Zhuo Li , Xu Zhou , Yang Liu , Congshan Fan , Wei Wang

Future cellular networks will sustainably integrate computing, intelligence and services within a network of networks ecosystem that includes IoT devices and subnetworks for local communications and distributed processing. This integration…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Keyvan Aghababaiyan , Baldomero Coll-Perales , Javier Gozalvez

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology to release the tension between computation-intensive applications and resource-limited mobile terminals (MTs). In this paper, we study the delay-optimal computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Xianling Meng , Wei Wang , Yitu Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Zhaoyang Zhang

The limited capabilities of user equipment restrict the local implementation of computation-intensive applications. Edge computing, especially the edge intelligence system, enables local users to offload the computation tasks to the edge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Zelin Ji , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Han Zhu

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

Computation task offloading plays a crucial role in facilitating computation-intensive applications and edge intelligence, particularly in response to the explosive growth of massive data generation. Various enabling techniques, wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Siqi Zhang , Na Yi , Yi Ma

Energy efficiency and security are two critical issues for mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. With stochastic task arrivals, time-varying dynamic environment, and passive existing attackers, it is very challenging to offload computation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Qun Wang , Han Hu , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu

Mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) is an emerging technology for enhancing mobiles' computation capabilities and prolonging their battery lives, by offloading intensive computation from mobiles to nearby servers such as base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Changsheng You , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang , Kaibin Huang

In serverless computing, applications are executed under lightweight virtualization and isolation environments, such as containers or micro virtual machines. Typically, their memory allocation is set by the user before deployment. All other…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yuxuan Zhao , Alexandru Uta

In virtual reality (VR) environments, computational tasks exhibit an elastic nature, meaning they can dynamically adjust based on various user and system constraints. This elasticity is essential for maintaining immersive experiences;…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Babak Badnava , Jacob Chakareski , Morteza Hashemi

In multi-tiered fog computing systems, to accelerate the processing of computation-intensive tasks for real-time IoT applications, resource-limited IoT devices can offload part of their workloads to nearby fog nodes, whereafter such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Xin Gao , Xi Huang , Simeng Bian , Ziyu Shao , Yang Yang

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

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

A wireless system is considered, where, computationally complex algorithms are offloaded from user devices to an edge cloud server, for the purpose of efficient battery usage. The main focus of this paper is to characterize and analyze, the…

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