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This paper is motivated by the observation that the average queueing delay can be decreased by sacrificing power efficiency in wireless communications. In this sense, we naturally wonder what is the minimum queueing delay when the available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Meng Wang , Juan Liu , Wei Chen , Anthony Ephremides

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a new paradigm that provides cloud computing services at the edge of networks. To achieve better performance with limited computing resources, peer offloading between cooperative edge servers (e.g. MEC-…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Xingqiu He , Sheng Wang

This study investigates the trade-off between system stability and offloading cost in collaborative edge computing. While collaborative offloading among multiple edge servers enhances resource utilization, existing methods often overlook…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Peiyan Yuan , Ming Li , Chenyang Wang , Ledong An , Xiaoyan Zhao , Junna Zhang , Xiangyang Li , Huadong Ma

In this paper, we introduce the online service with delay problem. In this problem, there are $n$ points in a metric space that issue service requests over time, and a server that serves these requests. The goal is to minimize the sum of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Yossi Azar , Arun Ganesh , Rong Ge , Debmalya Panigrahi

Delay or queue length information has the potential to influence the decision of a customer to use a service system. Thus, it is imperative for service system managers to understand how the information that they provide will affect the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Jamol Pender , Richard H. Rand , Elizabeth Wesson

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

We propose a novel strategy for energy-efficient dynamic computation offloading, in the context of edge-computing-aided beyond 5G networks. The goal is to minimize the energy consumption of the overall system, comprising multiple User…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Mattia Merluzzi , Nicola di Pietro , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

We consider a dynamic vehicle routing problem in wireless networks where messages arriving randomly in time and space are collected by a mobile receiver (vehicle or a collector). The collector is responsible for receiving these messages via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-30 Güner D. Çelik , Eytan Modiano

Owing to the resource-constrained feature of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, offloading tasks from IoT devices to the nearby mobile edge computing (MEC) servers can not only save the energy of IoT devices but also reduce the response time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zeinab Akhavan , Mona Esmaeili , Babak Badnava , Mohammad Yousefi , Xiang Sun , Michael Devetsikiotis , Payman Zarkesh-Ha

Future real-time applications like smart cities will use complex Machine Learning (ML) models for a variety of tasks. Timely status information is required for these applications to be reliable. Offloading computation to a mobile edge cloud…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Nitya Sathyavageeswaran , Roy D. Yates , Anand D. Sarwate , Narayan Mandayam

This paper studies the offloading service improvement of multi-access edge computing (MEC) based on backscatter communication (BackCom) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (BAC-NOMA). A hybrid BAC-NOMA protocol is proposed, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haodong Li

Decentralized federated learning (DFL) has attracted significant attention due to its scalability and independence from a central server. In practice, some participating clients can be mobile, yet the impact of user mobility on DFL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Md Farhamdur Reza , Reza Jahani , Richeng Jin , Huaiyu Dai

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In mobile computation offloading (MCO), mobile devices (MDs) can choose to either execute tasks locally or to have them executed on a remote edge server (ES). This paper addresses the problem of assigning both the wireless communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hong Chen , Terence D. Todd , Dongmei Zhao , George Karakostas

The use of future communication systems for sensing offers the potential for a number of new applications. In this paper, we show that leveraging user data payloads in multi-node Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Marc Miranda , Sebastian Semper , Christian Schneider , Reiner Thomä , Giovanni Del Galdo

Nowadays, data caching is being used as a high-speed data storage layer in mobile edge computing networks employing flow control methodologies at an exponential rate. This study shows how to discover the best architecture for backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amir Ziaeddini , Amin Mohajer , Davoud Yousefi , A. Mirzaei , Shu Gonglee

We consider the problem of packet scheduling in single-hop queueing networks, and analyze the impact of heavy-tailed traffic on the performance of Max-Weight scheduling. As a performance metric we use the delay stability of traffic flows: a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-08-02 Mihalis G. Markakis , Eytan H. Modiano , John N. Tsitsiklis

Ride-sourcing services are now reshaping the way people travel by effectively connecting drivers and passengers through mobile internets. Online matching between idle drivers and waiting passengers is one of the most key components in a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jintao Ke , Feng Xiao , Hai Yang , Jieping Ye

Data applications may typically tolerate a moderate delay before packet transmission between user equipment (UE) and cell begins. This delay can be taken advantage to reduce the communication distance, improve coverage probability, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-19 Haluk Celebi , Ismail Guvenc , Henning Schulzrinne

Opportunistic mobile networks consisting of intermittently connected mobile devices have been exploited for various applications, such as computational offloading and mitigating cellular traffic load. In contrast to existing work, in this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Zongqing Lu , Xiao Sun , Thomas La Porta