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An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) framework is proposed, where several UAVs having different trajectories fly over the target area and support the user equipments (UEs) on the ground. We aim to jointly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Liang Wang , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Wei Xu , Nauman Aslam , Lajos Hanzo

The surging development of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) marks a transformative era of the content creation and production. Edge servers promise attractive benefits, e.g., reduced service delay and backhaul traffic load,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yuxin Liang , Peng Yang , Yuanyuan He , Feng Lyu

With the uptake of intelligent data-driven applications, edge computing infrastructures necessitate a new generation of admission control algorithms to maximize system performance under limited and highly heterogeneous resources. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-01 A. Fox , F. De Pellegrini , F. Faticanti , E. Altman , F. Bronzino

In many robotic applications, some aspects of the system dynamics can be modeled accurately while others are difficult to obtain or model. We present a novel reinforcement learning (RL) method for continuous state and action spaces that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Tomoki Nishi , Prashant Doshi , Michael R. James , Danil Prokhorov

We present a non-asymptotic convergence analysis of $Q$-learning and actor-critic algorithms for robust average-reward Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) under contamination, total-variation (TV) distance, and Wasserstein uncertainty sets. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yang Xu , Swetha Ganesh , Vaneet Aggarwal

In the realm of mobile edge computing (MEC), efficient computation task offloading plays a pivotal role in ensuring a seamless quality of experience (QoE) for users. Maintaining a high QoE is paramount in today's interconnected world, where…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Iman Rahmaty , Hamed Shah-Mansouri , Ali Movaghar

In this paper, we consider resource allocation for edge computing in internet of things (IoT) networks. Specifically, each end device is considered as an agent, which makes its decisions on whether offloading the computation tasks to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Xiaolan Liu , Zhijin Qin , Yue Gao

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

Under a dramatic increase in mobile data traffic, a promising solution for edge computing systems to maintain their local service is the task migration that may be implemented by means of Autonomous mobile agents (AMA). In designing an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Khai Doan , Wesley Araujo , Evangelos Kranakis , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yannis Viniotis , Wonjae Shin

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

Reinforcement learning in multi-agent scenarios is important for real-world applications but presents challenges beyond those seen in single-agent settings. We present an actor-critic algorithm that trains decentralized policies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Shariq Iqbal , Fei Sha

This work considers a parallel task execution strategy in vehicular edge computing (VEC) networks, where edge servers are deployed along the roadside to process offloaded computational tasks of vehicular users. To minimize the overall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sungho Cho , Sung Il Choi , Seung Hyun Oh , Ian P. Roberts , Sang Hyun Lee

The evolving landscape of edge computing envisions platforms operating as dynamic intermediaries between application providers and edge servers (ESs), where task offloading is coupled with payments for computational services. Ensuring…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ting Xiaoyang , Minfeng Zhang , Shu gonglee , Saimin Chen Zhang

With rapid advances in containerization techniques, the serverless computing model is becoming a valid candidate execution model in edge networking, similar to the widely used cloud model for applications that are stateless, single purpose…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mounir Bensalem , Erkan Ipek , Admela Jukan

This paper proposes a novel multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) framework, where the computing tasks of terminal devices (TDs) can be decomposed into serial or parallel sub-tasks and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhenyu Zhao , Xiaoxia Xu , Tiankui Zhang , Junjie Li , Yuanwei Liu

There is a growing interest in integrating machine learning techniques and optimization to solve challenging optimization problems. In this work, we propose a deep reinforcement learning methodology for the job shop scheduling problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Marta Monaci , Valerio Agasucci , Giorgio Grani

Mobile edge computing is a new computing paradigm, which pushes cloud computing capabilities away from the centralized cloud to the network edge. However, with the sinking of computing capabilities, the new challenge incurred by user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Tao Ouyang , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

Various resources as the essential elements of data centers, and the completion time is vital to users. In terms of the persistence, the periodicity and the spatial-temporal dependence of stream workload, a new Storm scheduler with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Gaoqiang Dong , Jia Wang , Mingjing Wang , Tingting Su

Mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled air-ground networks are a key component of 6G, employing aerial base stations (ABSs) such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) to provide dynamic services to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Muhammet Hevesli , Abegaz Mohammed Seid , Aiman Erbad , Mohamed Abdallah

In recent years, the fast development of mobile communications and cloud systems has substantially promoted edge computing. By pushing server resources to the edge, mobile service providers can deliver their content and services with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Xun Shao , Go Hasegawa , Mianxiong Dong , Zhi Liu , Hiroshi Masui , Yusheng Ji