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Mobile-edge computing (MEC) enhances the capacities and features of mobile devices by offloading computation-intensive tasks over wireless networks to edge servers. One challenge faced by the deployment of MEC in cellular networks is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Zezu Liang , Yuan Liu , Tat-Ming Lok , Kaibin Huang

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…

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Mobile edge computing is beneficial to reduce service response time and core network traffic by pushing cloud functionalities to network edge. Equipped with storage and computation capacities, edge nodes can cache services of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xiao Ma , Ao Zhou , Shan Zhang , Shangguang Wang

Adopting serverless computing to edge networks benefits end-users from the pay-as-you-use billing model and flexible scaling of applications. This paradigm extends the boundaries of edge computing and remarkably improves the quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Peiyuan Guan , Chen Chen , Ziru Chen , Lin X. Cai , Xing Hao , Amir Taherkordi

There is a growing need for low latency for many devices and users. The traditional cloud computing paradigm can not meet this requirement, legitimizing the need for a new paradigm. Edge computing proposes to move computing capacities to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Samuel Rac , Mats Brorsson

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technique for providing low-latency access to services at the network edge. The services are hosted at various types of edge nodes with both computation and communication capabilities. Due to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Stephen Pasteris , Shiqiang Wang , Mark Herbster , Ting He

Offloading time-sensitive, computationally intensive tasks-such as advanced learning algorithms for autonomous driving-from vehicles to nearby edge servers, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) systems, or other collaborating vehicles via…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Nazish Tahir , Ramviyas Parasuraman , Haijian Sun

In this paper, we consider a goal-oriented communication problem for edge server monitoring, where jobs arrive intermittently at multiple dispatchers and must be assigned to shared edge servers with finite queues and time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Samuel Chamoun , Christian McDowell , Robin Buchanan , Kevin Chan , Eric Graves , Yin Sun

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging network paradigm that provides cloud and IT services at the point of access of the network. Such proximity to the end user translates into ultra-low latency and high bandwidth, while, at the same…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Giuseppe Avino , Marco Malinverno , Francesco Malandrino , Claudio Casetti , Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini

Mobile edge computing seeks to provide resources to different delay-sensitive applications. However, allocating the limited edge resources to a number of applications is a challenging problem. To alleviate the resource scarcity problem, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Faheem Zafari , Jian Li , Kin K Leung , Don Towsley , Ananthram Swami

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

In order to better accommodate the dramatically increasing demand for data caching and computing services, storage and computation capabilities should be endowed to some of the intermediate nodes within the network. In this paper, we design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Yuchen Zhou , F. Richard Yu , Jian Chen , Yonghong Kuo

In mobile edge computing, edge servers are geographically distributed around base stations placed near end-users to provide highly accessible and efficient computing capacities and services. In the mobile edge computing environment, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Phu Lai , Qiang He , Mohamed Abdelrazek , Feifei Chen , John Hosking , John Grundy , Yun Yang

Cache-enabled coordinated mobile edge network is an emerging network architecture, wherein serving nodes located at the network edge have the capabilities of baseband signal processing and caching files at their local cache. The main goals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Shiwen He , Wei Huang , Jiaheng Wang , Ju Ren , Yongming Huang , Yaoxue Zhang

Due to the ever-increasing popularity of resource-hungry and delay-constrained mobile applications, the computation and storage capabilities of remote cloud has partially migrated towards the mobile edge, giving rise to the concept known as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Shermila Ranadheera , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

In mobile computation offloading (MCO), mobile devices (MDs) can choose to either execute tasks locally or to have them executed on a remote edge server (ES). This paper addresses the problem of assigning both the wireless communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hong Chen , Terence D. Todd , Dongmei Zhao , George Karakostas

Offloading high-demanding applications to the edge provides better quality of experience (QoE) for users with limited hardware devices. However, to maintain a competitive QoE, infrastructure, and service providers must adapt to users'…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-29 João Paulo Esper , Nadjib Achir , Kleber Vieira Cardoso , Jussara M. Almeida

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

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

Edge computing is an emerging paradigm to enable low-latency applications, like mobile augmented reality, because it takes the computation on processing devices that are closer to the users. On the other hand, the need for highly scalable…

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