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We consider a hierarchical edge-cloud architecture in which services are provided to mobile users as chains of virtual network functions. Each service has specific computation requirements and target delay performance, which require placing…

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In this paper, we propose a digital agent (DA)-assisted resource management scheme for enhanced user quality of experience (QoE) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks. Particularly, user QoE is a comprehensive metric that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Xinyu Huang , Yixiao Zhang , Yingying Pei , Jianzhe Xue , Xuemin Shen

To support the growing demand for data-intensive and low-latency IoT applications, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is emerging as an effective edge-computing approach enabling the execution of delay-sensitive processing tasks close to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Simone Bolettieri , Raffaele Bruno , Enzo Mingozzi

We consider the setting where a service is hosted on a third-party edge server deployed close to the users and a cloud server at a greater distance from the users. Due to the proximity of the edge servers to the users, requests can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Aadesh Madnaik , Sharayu Moharir , Nikhil Karamchandani

Mobile augmented reality (MAR) is envisioned as a key immersive application in 6G, enabling virtual content rendering aligned with the physical environment through device pose estimation. In this paper, we propose a novel agent-driven…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Conghao Zhou , Lulu Sun , Xiucheng Wang , Peng Yang , Feng Lyu , Sihan Lu , Xuemin Shen

Placing applications in mobile edge computing servers presents a complex challenge involving many servers, users, and their requests. Existing algorithms take a long time to solve high-dimensional problems with significant uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Taha-Hossein Hejazi , Zahra Ghadimkhani , Arezoo Borji

Virtually all of the rapidly increasing data traffic consumed by mobile users requires some kind of processing, normally performed at cloud servers. A recent thrust, {\em mobile edge computing}, moves such processing to servers {\em within}…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Francesco Malandrino , Scott Kirkpatrick , Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini

To overcome devices' limitations in performing computation-intense applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) enables users to offload tasks to proximal MEC servers for faster task computation. However, current MEC system design is based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

In the ever-evolving landscape of computing, the advent of edge and fog computing has revolutionized data processing by bringing it closer to end-users. While cloud computing offers numerous advantages, including mobility, flexibility and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Miguel Mota-Cruz , João H Santos , José F Macedo , Karima Velasquez , David Perez Abreu

As mobile devices have become the preferred tool for communication, work, and entertainment, traffic at the edge of the network is growing more rapidly than ever. To improve user experience, commodity servers are deployed in the edge to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Duc A. Tran , Quynh Vo

The advent of Edge Computing (EC) as a promising paradigm that provides multiple computation and analytics capabilities close to data sources opens new pathways for novel applications. Nonetheless, the limited computational capabilities of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Georgios Boulougaris , Kostas Kolomvatsos

This article proposes an edge content delivery framework (ECD) based on mobile edge computing in the era of Internet of Things (IOT), to alleviate the load of the core network and improve the quality of experience (QoE) of mobile users.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Shangguang Wang , Chuntao Ding , Ning Zhang , Nan Cheng , Jie Huang , Ying Liu

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

With the growing demand for latency-critical and computation-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) services, the IoT-oriented network architecture, mobile edge computing (MEC), has emerged as a promising technique to reinforce the computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jiechen Chen , Hong Xing , Xiaohui Lin , Arumugam Nallanathan , Suzhi Bi

Edge computing is the practice of placing computing resources at the edges of the Internet in close proximity to devices and information sources. This, much like a cache on a CPU, increases bandwidth and reduces latency for applications but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Paul Wood , Heng Zhang , Muhammad-Bilal Siddiqui , Saurabh Bagchi

Edge computing has emerged as a popular paradigm for supporting mobile and IoT applications with low latency or high bandwidth needs. The attractiveness of edge computing has been further enhanced due to the recent availability of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Qianlin Liang , Prashant Shenoy , David Irwin

The deployment of edge computing infrastructure requires a careful placement of the edge servers, with an aim to improve application latencies and reduce data transfer load in opportunistic Internet of Things systems. In the edge server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Tero Lähderanta , Teemu Leppänen , Leena Ruha , Lauri Lovén , Erkki Harjula , Mika Ylianttila , Jukka Riekki , Mikko J. Sillanpää

In this paper, we propose a novel optimal power allocation method that features a power limit function and is able to ensure more users reach the desired Quality-of-Service (QoS). In our model we use sigmoidal-like utility functions to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Ying Wang , Ahmed Abdelhadi

The rise of complex, latency-sensitive IoT applications across the Edge-Cloud continuum exposes the limitations of current Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms in seamlessly addressing the complexity, heterogeneity, and intermittent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn , Juahn Kwon , Hai Duc Nguyen , Mohsen Amini Salehi

In this article, we present a digital agent (DA)-assisted network management framework for future sixth generation (6G) networks considering user quality of experience (QoE). A novel QoE metric is defined by incorporating the impact of user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xuemin Shen , Xinyu Huang , Jianzhe Xue , Conghao Zhou , Xiufang Shi , Weihua Zhuang