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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm to accommodate the increasingly prosperous delay-sensitive and computation-intensive applications in 5G systems. To achieve optimum computation performance in a dynamic MEC environment,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xian Li , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture, in which a UAV roaming around the area may serve as a computing server to help user equipment (UEs) compute their tasks or act as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-18 Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang , Zhongbin Zheng

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has emerged as a solution to the high latency and suboptimal Quality of Experience (QoE) associated with Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). By processing data near the source, MEC reduces the need to send information…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Sohaib Ahmed , Hassan Khalid , Muhammad Hamza , Danyal Farhat

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is an essential technology for the fifth generation (5G) of mobile networks. MEC enables low-latency services by bringing computing resources close to the end-users. The integration of 5G and MEC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Thilina Pathirana , Gianfranco Nencioni , Ruxandra F. Olimid

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

Driven by the emergence of new compute-intensive applications and the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is foreseen that the emerging 5G network will face an unprecedented increase in traffic volume and computation demands.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Quoc-Viet Pham , Fang Fang , Vu Nguyen Ha , Md. Jalil Piran , Mai Le , Long Bao Le , Won-Joo Hwang , Zhiguo Ding

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is capable of meeting the challenging requirements of next-generation networks, e.g., 6G, as a benefit of providing computing and caching capabilities in the close proximity of the users. However, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Liqiang Zhao , Guorong Zhou , Gan Zheng , Chih-Lin I , Xiaohu You , Lajos Hanzo

Traditional highly-centralized mobile core networks (e.g., Evolved Packet Core (EPC)) need to be constantly upgraded both in their network functions and backhaul links, to meet increasing traffic demands. Network Function Virtualization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Abhishek Gupta , Massimo Tornatore , Brigitte Jaumard , Biswanath Mukherjee

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

Driven by great demands on low-latency services of the edge devices (EDs), mobile edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the computing capacities at the edge of the radio access network. However, conventional MEC servers suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Pengfei Wang , Zijie Zheng , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

The needs of emerging applications, such as augmented and virtual reality, federated machine learning, and autonomous driving, have motivated edge computing--the push of computation capabilities to the edge. Various edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Reza Tourani , Srikathyayani Srikanteswara , Satyajayant Misra , Richard Chow , Lily Yang , Xiruo Liu , Yi Zhang

As mobile network users look forward to the connectivity speeds of 5G networks, service providers are facing challenges in complying with connectivity demands without substantial financial investments. Network Function Virtualization (NFV)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hassan Hawilo , Abdallah Shami , Maysam Mirahmadi , Rasool Asal

For autonomous vehicles to be fully aware of its environment, it needs to collect data consistently from other vehicles and Road Side Units (RSU) in the surroundings. This heavy exchange increases latency and cybersecurity threats. This…

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has already shown the potential in enabling mobile devices to bear the computation-intensive applications by offloading some tasks to a nearby access point (AP) integrated with a MEC server (MES). However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Joshua Bassey , Xiangfang Li , Timothy Kroecker , Lijun Qian

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides computational services at the edge of networks by offloading tasks from user equipments (UEs). This letter employs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as the edge computing server to execute offloaded tasks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Yuwen Qian , Feifei Wang , Jun Li , Long Shi , Kui Cai , Feng Shu

We investigate a cooperative federated learning framework among devices for mobile edge computing, named CFLMEC, where devices co-exist in a shared spectrum with interference. Keeping in view the time-average network throughput of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xinghan Wang , Xiaoxiong Zhong , Yuanyuan Yang , Tingting Yang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication networks are promising in the fifth and beyond wireless communication systems. In this paper, we shed light on three UAV-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) architectures. Those…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu , Zan Li , Yuhao Wang

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

The Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) technique has gained significant traction for producing diverse content. However, existing AIGC services typically operate within a centralized framework, resulting in high response…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Changfu Xu , Jianxiong Guo , Jiandian Zeng , Houming Qiu , Tian Wang , Xiaowen Chu , Jiannong Cao

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that provides computing, storage, and networking resources within the edge of the mobile Radio Access Network (RAN). MEC servers are deployed on generic computing platform within the RAN…

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