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In this article, we report on the efficiency and effectiveness of multiagent reinforcement learning methods (MARL) for the computation of flight delays to resolve congestion problems in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) domain. Specifically,…

The Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) system located close to the client allows mobile smart devices to offload their computations onto edge servers, enabling them to benefit from low-latency computing services. Both cloud service providers and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yanheng Guo , Yan Zhang , Linjie Wu , Mengxia Li , Xingjuan Cai , Jinjun Chen

Task offloading is a widely used technology in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which declines the completion time of user task with the help of resourceful edge servers. Existing works mainly focus on the case that the computation density of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Zequn Cao , Xiaoheng Deng

We consider the problem of intelligent and efficient task allocation mechanism in large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC), which can reduce delay and energy consumption in a parallel and distributed optimization. In this paper, we study the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaoxiong Zhong , Xinghan Wang , Yuanyuan Yang , Yang Qin , Xiaoke Ma , Tingting Yang

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

Edge computing has become a very popular service that enables mobile devices to run complex tasks with the help of network-based computing resources. However, edge clouds are often resource-constrained, which makes resource allocation a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Caroline Rublein , Fidan Mehmeti , Mark Mahon , Thomas F. La Porta

In the literature, actor-critic model predictive control (AC-MPC) integrates MPC with reinforcement learning to enable high-performance control of complex dynamical systems. However, its differentiable MPC layer requires repeatedly solving…

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables low-latency and high-bandwidth applications by bringing computation and data storage closer to end-users. Intelligent computing is an important application of MEC, where computing resources are used to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Yapeng Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

The demand for stringent interactive quality-of-service has intensified in both mobile edge computing (MEC) and cloud systems, driven by the imperative to improve user experiences. As a result, the processing of computation-intensive tasks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ngoc Hung Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Anh Tuan Nguyen , Nguyen Van Thieu , Hoang Nam Nguyen , Symeon Chatzinotas

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) holds excellent potential in Congestion Management (CM) of 6G vehicular networks. A reasonable schedule of MEC ensures a more reliable and efficient CM system. Unfortunately, existing parallel and sequential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ke Deng , Zhiyuan He , Haohan Lin , Hao Zhang , Desheng Wang

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

With the popularity of mobile devices and development of computationally intensive applications, researchers are focusing on offloading computation to Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) server due to its high computational efficiency and low…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yuwei Li , Bo Yang , Hao Wu , Qiaoni Han , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

The high computational complexity and energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms hinder their application in augmented reality (AR) systems. However, mobile edge computing (MEC) makes it possible to solve this problem.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Guangjin Pan , Heng Zhang , Shugong Xu , Shunqing Zhang , Xiaojing Chen

For in-vehicle application, the vehicles with different speeds have different delay requirements. However, vehicle speeds have not been extensively explored, which may cause mismatching between vehicle speed and its allocated computation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Xinyu Huang , Lijun He , Wanyue Zhang

Swarm robotics is envisioned to automate a large number of dirty, dangerous, and dull tasks. Robots have limited energy, computation capability, and communication resources. Therefore, current swarm robotics have a small number of robots,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xiucheng Wang , Hongzhi Guo

In mobile edge computing, local edge servers can host cloud-based services, which reduces network overhead and latency but requires service migrations as users move to new locations. It is challenging to make migration decisions optimally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shiqiang Wang , Rahul Urgaonkar , Murtaza Zafer , Ting He , Kevin Chan , Kin K. Leung

In this paper, the imbalance edge cloud based computing offloading for multiple mobile users (MUs) with multiple tasks per MU is studied. In which, several edge cloud servers (ECSs) are shared and accessed by multiple wireless access points…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Weiheng Jiang , Yi Gong , Yang Cao , Xiaogang Wu , Qian Xiao

In this paper, we study the problem of reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems where communication among agents is limited. We develop a decentralized actor-critic learning framework in which each agent performs several local updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaoxing Ren , Nicola Bastianello , Thomas Parisini , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

To accommodate exponentially increasing traffic demands of vehicle-based applications, operators are utilizing offloading as a promising technique to improve quality of service (QoS), which gives rise to the application of Mobile Edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Zhijie Chen , Bo Yang , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan