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How would a cellular network designed for maximal energy efficiency look like? To answer this fundamental question, tools from stochastic geometry are used in this paper to model future cellular networks and obtain a new lower bound on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Marios Kountouris

Edge service caching can effectively reduce the delay or bandwidth overhead for acquiring and initializing applications. To address single-base station (BS) transmission limitation and serious edge effect in traditional cellular-based edge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Langtian Qin , Hancheng Lu , Yao Lu , Chenwu Zhang , Feng Wu

With the dense deployment of small cell networks, low-cost backhaul schemes for small cell base stations (SBSs) have attracted great attentions. Self-backhaul using cellular communication technology is considered as a promising solution.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Lei Chen , F. Richard Yu , Hong Ji , Bo Rong , Victor C. M. Leung

In this paper, a joint task, spectrum, and transmit power allocation problem is investigated for a wireless network in which the base stations (BSs) are equipped with mobile edge computing (MEC) servers to jointly provide computational and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Xuanlin Liu , Changchuan Yin , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

Motivated by the proliferation of Internet-of-Thing (IoT) devices and the rapid advances in the field of deep learning, there is a growing interest in pushing deep learning computations, conventionally handled by the cloud, to the edge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Marco Palena , Tania Cerquitelli , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

The explosive development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to increased interest in mobile edge computing (MEC), which provides computational resources at network edges to accommodate computation-intensive and latency-sensitive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Wenhan Xu , Jiadong Yu , Yuan Wu , Danny H. K. Tsang

This paper investigates a cellular edge caching design under an extremely large number of small base stations (SBSs) and users. In this ultra-dense edge caching network (UDCN), SBS-user distances shrink, and each user can request a cached…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Hyesung Kim , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mérouane Debbah

Mobile edge clouds (MECs) bring the benefits of the cloud closer to the user, by installing small cloud infrastructures at the network edge. This enables a new breed of real-time applications, such as instantaneous object recognition and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Andrew Machen , Shiqiang Wang , Kin K. Leung , Bong Jun Ko , Theodoros Salonidis

Merging mobile edge computing (MEC) functionality with the dense deployment of base stations (BSs) provides enormous benefits such as a real proximity, low latency access to computing resources. However, the envisioned integration creates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Yuxuan Sun , Sheng Zhou , Jie Xu

The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart applications has led to a surge in data generated by distributed sensing devices. Edge computing is a mainstream approach to managing this data by pushing computation closer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Daghash K. Alqahtani , Maria A. Rodriguez , Muhammad Aamir Cheema , Adel N. Toosi

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising approach for enhancing the quality-of-service (QoS) of AI-enabled applications in the B5G/6G era, by bringing computation capability closer to end-users at the network edge. In this work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Huaizhe Liu , Jiaqi Wu , Zhizongkai Wang , Bin Cao , Lin Gao

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that mobile devices can offload the computation-intensive or latency-critical tasks to the nearby MEC servers, so as to save energy and extend battery life. Unlike the cloud server, MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Kang Cheng , Yinglei Teng , Weiqi Sun , An Liu , Xianbin Wang

In this paper, the problem of joint user scheduling and computing resource allocation in asynchronous mobile edge computing (MEC) networks is studied. In such networks, edge devices will offload their computational tasks to an MEC server,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Yihan Cang , Ming Chen , Yijin Pan , Zhaohui Yang , Ye Hu , Haijian Sun , Mingzhe Chen

We consider a heterogeneous network with mobile edge computing, where a user can offload its computation to one among multiple servers. In particular, we minimize the system-wide computation overhead by jointly optimizing the individual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Quoc-Viet Pham , Tuan LeAnh , Nguyen H. Tran , Choong Seon Hong

Hierarchical edge-cloud computing-aided Internet of Things (IoT) networks offer low-latency and cost-efficient services to a growing number of data-intensive IoT devices. However, optimizing service placement, which involves determining the…

TriCloudEdge is a scalable three-tier cloud continuum that integrates far-edge devices, intermediate edge nodes, and central cloud services, working in parallel as a unified solution. At the far edge, ultra-low-cost microcontrollers can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 George Violettas , Lefteris Mamatas

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

The development of mobile communication technology, hardware, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology has promoted the application of edge computing in the field of heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT). In order…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yixue Hao , Yiming Miao , Yuanwen Tian , Long Hu , M. Shamim Hossain , Ghulam Muhammad , Syed Umar Amin

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

Mobile networks are becoming energy hungry, and this trend is expected to continue due to a surge in communication and computation demand. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), will entail energy-consuming services and applications, with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Neda Shalavi , Giovanni Perin , Andrea Zanella , Michele Rossi