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In mobile edge computing (MEC) systems, edge service caching refers to pre-storing the necessary programs for executing computation tasks at MEC servers. At resource-constrained edge servers, service caching placement is in general a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Suzhi Bi , Liang Huang , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Merging Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is an emerging paradigm to meet the increasing computation demands from mobile devices, with the dense deployment of Base Stations (BSs), is foreseen as a key step towards the next generation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Lixing Chen , Sheng Zhou , Jie Xu

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm to provide flexible computing services close to user devices (UDs). However, meeting the computation-hungry and delay-sensitive demands of UDs faces several challenges,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Geng Sun , Minghua Yuan , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Dong In Kim

Many cloud-based applications employ a data centre as a central server to process data that is generated by edge devices, such as smartphones, tablets and wearables. This model places ever increasing demands on communication and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Blesson Varghese , Nan Wang , Sakil Barbhuiya , Peter Kilpatrick , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Caching high-frequency reuse contents at the edge servers in the mobile edge computing (MEC) network omits the part of backhaul transmission and further releases the pressure of data traffic. However, how to efficiently decide the caching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yuqi Han , Rui Wang , Jun Wu , Dian Liu , Haoqi Ren

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology that provides cloud and IT services within the proximity of the mobile user. With the increasing number of mobile applications, mobile devices (MD) encounter limitations of their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Mahla Rahati-Quchani , Saeid Abrishami , Mehdi Feizi

Deploying V2X services has become a challenging task. This is mainly due to the fact that such services have strict latency requirements. To meet these requirements, one potential solution is adopting mobile edge computing (MEC). However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Abdallah Moubayed , Abdallah Shami , Parisa Heidari , Adel Larabi , Richard Brunner

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered as an efficient method to relieve the computation burden of mobile devices. In order to reduce the energy consumption and time delay of mobile devices (MDs) in MEC, multiple users multiple input and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Changfeng Ding , Jun-Bo Wang , Ming Cheng , Chuanwen Chang , Jin-Yuan Wang , Min Lin

This paper studies a problem of jointly optimizing two important operations in mobile edge computing without knowing future requests, namely service caching, which determines which services to be hosted at the edge, and service routing,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Siqi Fan , I-Hong Hou , Van Sy Mai , Lotfi Benmohamed

The ever-increasing growth in the number of connected smart devices and various Internet of Things (IoT) verticals is leading to a crucial challenge of handling massive amount of raw data generated from distributed IoT systems and providing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Ali Alnoman , Shree Krishna Sharma , Waleed Ejaz , Alagan Anpalagan

After the advent of the Internet of Things and 5G networks, edge computing became the center of attraction. The tasks demanding high computation are generally offloaded to the cloud since the edge is resource-limited. The Edge Cloud is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hassan Asghar , Eun-Sung Jung

Cloud Data Centers have become the backbone infrastructure to provide services. With the emerging edge computing paradigm, computation and networking capabilities have been pushed from clouds to the edge to provide computation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-07 TianZhang He , Rajkumar Buyya

As we move from 5G to 6G, edge computing is one of the concepts that needs revisiting. Its core idea is still intriguing: instead of sending all data and tasks from an end user's device to the cloud, possibly covering thousands of…

By offloading intensive computation tasks to the edge cloud located at the cellular base stations, mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) has been regarded as a promising means to accomplish the ambitious millisecond-scale end-to-end…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Jinke Ren , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai , Yinghui He

Under several emerging application scenarios, such as in smart cities, operational monitoring of large infrastructure, wearable assistance, and Internet of Things, continuous data streams must be processed under very short delays. Several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Marcos Dias de Assuncao , Alexandre da Silva Veith , Rajkumar Buyya

In an edge-cloud multi-tier network, datacenters provide services to mobile users, with each service having specific latency constraints and computational requirements. Deploying such a variety of services while matching their requirements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Itamar Cohen , Paolo Giaccone , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the wide penetration of wireless networks, the surging demand for data communications and computing calls for the emerging edge computing paradigm. By moving the services and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Quyuan Luo , Shihong Hu , Changle Li , Guanghui Li , Weisong Shi

Offloading computationally intensive tasks from mobile users (MUs) to a virtualized environment such as containers on a nearby edge server, can significantly reduce processing time and hence end-to-end (E2E) delay. However, when users are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Mao V. Ngo , Tie Luo , Hieu T. Hoang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Federated learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing their raw data. Due to its privacy-protecting benefits, FL has been deployed in many real-world applications. However, deploying…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zhidong Gao , Zhenxiao Zhang , Yu Zhang , Tongnian Wang , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo