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Edge computing offers the distinct advantage of harnessing compute capabilities on resources located at the edge of the network to run workloads of relatively weak user devices. This is achieved by offloading computationally intensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jason Kennedy , Blesson Varghese , Carlos Reaño

Future Mobile Networks (MNs), 5G and beyond 5G, will require a paradigm shift from traditional resource allocation mechanisms as Base Stations (BSs) will be empowered with computation capabilities (i.e., offloading and computation is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Thembelihle Dlamini

Vehicular Edge Clouds (VECs) is a new distributed processing paradigm that exploits the revolution in the processing capabilities of vehicles to offer energy efficient services and improved QoS. In this paper we tackle the problem of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Amal A. Alahmadi , T. E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

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

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging computing paradigm that extends cloud computing to the network edge to support resource-intensive applications on mobile devices. As a crucial problem in MEC, service migration needs to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Jin Wang , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Qiang Ni , Tarek El-Ghazawi

Driven by the visions of Internet of Things and 5G communications, the edge computing systems integrate computing, storage and network resources at the edge of the network to provide computing infrastructure, enabling developers to quickly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Fang Liu , Guoming Tang , Youhuizi Li , Zhiping Cai , Xingzhou Zhang , Tongqing Zhou

Future scenarios, such as AR/VR, pose challenging latency and bandwidth requirements in 5G. This need is complemented by the adoption of cloud principles for providing services, particularly for virtualizing service components with which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Dirk Trossen , Sebastian Robitzsch , Scott Hergenhan , Janne Riihijarvi , Martin Reed , Mays Al-Naday

To mitigate computational power gap between the network core and edges, mobile edge computing (MEC) is poised to play a fundamental role in future generations of wireless networks. In this letter, we consider a non-orthogonal multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Vaibhav Kumar , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

In the area of full duplex (FD)-enabled small cell networks, limited works have been done on consideration of cache and mobile edge communication (MEC). In this paper, a virtual FD-enabled small cell network with cache and MEC is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Zhiyuan Tan , F. Richard Yu , Xi Li , Hong Ji , Victor C. M. Leung

Containers are used by an increasing number of Internet service providers to deploy their applications in multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems. Although container-based virtualization technologies significantly increase application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Ao Liu , Shaoshi Yang , Jingsheng Tan , Zongze Liang , Jiasen Sun , Tao Wen , Hongyan Yan

Edge computing is a promising solution to enable low-latency IoT applications, by shifting computation from remote data centers to local devices, less powerful but closer to the end user devices. However, this creates the challenge on how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

With the advent of the modern mobile traffic, e.g., online gaming, augmented reality delivery and etc., a novel bidirectional computation task model where the input data of each task consists of two parts, one generated at the mobile device…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yaping Sun , Lyutianyang Zhang , Zhiyong Chen , Sumit Roy

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) 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

The cloud computing paradigm underlines data center and telecommunication infrastructure design. Heavily leveraging virtualization, it slices hardware and software resources into smaller software units for greater flexibility of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Pedro R. X. do Carmo , Eduardo Freitas , Assis T. de Oliveira Filho , Judith Kelner , Djamel Sadok

The rise of delay-sensitive yet computing-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) applications poses challenges due to the limited processing power of IoT devices. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers a promising solution to address these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Ke Ma , Junfei Xie

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology enables the rapid growth of connected smart devices and mobile applications. However, due to the constrained resources and limited battery capacity, there are bottlenecks when utilizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Minxian Xu , Chengxi Gao , Shashikant Ilager , Huaming Wu , Chengzhong Xu , Rajkumar Buyya

MEC Sandbox is an excellent tool that simulates wireless networks and deploys ETSI Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) APIs on top of the simulated wireless network. In this demo, we consume these APIs using a decision engine (DE) to scale a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Rasoul Nikbakht , Michail Dalgitsis , Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz , Sarang Kahvazadeh

Edge computing has emerged as a pivotal technology, offering significant advantages such as low latency, enhanced data security, and reduced reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. These benefits are crucial for applications requiring…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Tomasz Szydlo , Viacheslav Horbanov , Devki Nandan Jha , Shashikant Ilager , Aleksander Slominski , Rajiv Ranjan

In this paper, we investigate a mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture with the assistance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV acts as a computing server to help the user equipment (UEs) compute their tasks as well as a relay to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang , Zhongbin Zheng