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Two enablers of the 5th Generation (5G) of mobile communication systems are the high data rates achievable with millimeter-wave radio signals and the cloudification of the network's mobile edge, made possible also by Multi-access Edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Nicola di Pietro , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

Existing works on task offloading in mobile edge computing (MEC) networks often assume a task is executed once at a single edge node (EN). Downloading the computed result from the EN back to the mobile user may suffer long delay if the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Kuikui Li , Meixia Tao , Zhiyong Chen

Resource allocation is investigated for offloading computational-intensive tasks in multi-hop mobile edge computing (MEC) system. The envisioned system has both the cooperative access points (AP) with the computing capability and the MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Md. Zoheb Hassan , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology to release the tension between computation-intensive applications and resource-limited mobile terminals (MTs). In this paper, we study the delay-optimal computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Xianling Meng , Wei Wang , Yitu Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper investigates an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based mobile-edge computing (MEC) network. Our objective is to minimize a linear combination of the completion time of all users' tasks and the total energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Zhaohui Yang , Cunhua Pan , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this paper, we investigate the scheduling design of a mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, where the random arrival of mobile devices with computation tasks in both spatial and temporal domains is considered. The binary computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Shanfeng Huang , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang

In this paper, we consider a task offloading problem in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) network, in which edge users can either use their local processing unit to compute their tasks or offload their tasks to a nearby edge server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Babak Badnava , Keenan Roach , Kenny Cheung , Morteza Hashemi , Ness B Shroff

With the ever-increasing popularity of resource-intensive mobile applications, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), e.g., offloading computationally expensive tasks to the cellular edge, has become a prominent technology for the next generation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Shermila Ranadheera , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

In this paper, we consider a multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) network powered by wireless power transfer (WPT), where each energy-harvesting WD follows a binary computation offloading policy, i.e., data set of a task has to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) can enhance the computing capability of mobile devices, and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can provide high data rates. Combining these two technologies can effectively benefit the network with spectrum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Fang Fang , Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Chao Shen , Mugen Peng , George K. Karagiannidis

Exploiting the idle computation resources of mobile devices in mobile edge computing (MEC) system can achieve both channel diversity and computing diversity as mobile devices can offload their computation tasks to nearby mobile devices in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yuwen Huang , Yuan Liu , Fangjiong Chen

This paper studies a wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system with device-to-device (D2D)-enabled task offloading. In this system, a set of distributed multi-antenna energy transmitters (ETs) use collaborative energy beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Dixiao Wu , Feng Wang , Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu

With the proliferation of computation-extensive and latency-critical applications in the 5G and beyond networks, mobile-edge computing (MEC) or fog computing, which provides cloud-like computation and/or storage capabilities at the network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Jie Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

In this paper, we study a mobile edge computing (MEC) system in which the mobile device is assisted by a base station (BS) and a cooperative node. The mobile device has sequential tasks to complete, whereas the cooperative node assists the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Xiangg Li , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling Internet of Things (IoT) devices to handle computation-intensive jobs. Due to the imperfect parallelization of algorithms for job processing on servers and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chuanchao Gao , Niraj Kumar , Arvind Easwaran

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) aims to extend cloud service to the network edge to reduce network traffic and service latency. A fundamental problem in MEC is how to efficiently offload heterogeneous tasks of mobile applications from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jin Wang , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Albert Y. Zomaya , Nektarios Georgalas

With the development of 5G technology, mobile edge computing (MEC) is becoming a useful architecture, which is envisioned as a cloud computing extension version. Users within MEC system could deal with data processing at edge terminals,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Hangfan Li , Xiaoxiong Zhong , Xinghan Wang , Yun Ji , Sheng Zhang

Edge Computing (EC) allows users to access computing resources at the network frontier, which paves the way for deploying delay-sensitive applications such as Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR). Under the EC paradigm, MAR users connect to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Ayoub Ben-Ameur , Andrea Araldo , Tijani Chahed

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to support mission-critical vehicular applications, such as intelligent path planning and safety applications. In this paper, a collaborative edge computing framework is developed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Mushu Li , Jie Gao , Lian Zhao , Xuemin Shen