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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 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

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising approach for enhancing the quality-of-service (QoS) of AI-enabled applications in the B5G/6G era, by bringing computation capability closer to end-users at the network edge. In this work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Huaizhe Liu , Jiaqi Wu , Zhizongkai Wang , Bin Cao , Lin Gao

In recent years, edge computing, as an important pillar for future networks, has been developed rapidly. Task offloading is a key part of edge computing that can provide computing resources for resource-constrained devices to run…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Liangjun Song , Gang Sun , Hongfang Yu , Mohsen Guizani

By offloading intensive computation tasks to the edge cloud located at the cellular base stations, mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) has been regarded as a promising means to accomplish the ambitious millisecond-scale end-to-end…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Jinke Ren , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai , Yinghui He

Collaborative edge computing (CEC) is an emerging paradigm for heterogeneous devices to collaborate on edge computation jobs. For congestible links and computing units, delay-optimal forwarding and offloading for service chain tasks (e.g.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jinkun Zhang , Edmund Yeh

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

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has already shown the potential in enabling mobile devices to bear the computation-intensive applications by offloading some tasks to a nearby access point (AP) integrated with a MEC server (MES). However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Joshua Bassey , Xiangfang Li , Timothy Kroecker , Lijun Qian

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

Vehicle edge computing (VEC) brings abundant computing resources close to vehicles by deploying them at roadside units (RSUs) or base stations, thereby enabling diverse computation-intensive and delay sensitive applications. Existing task…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ke Ma , Junfei Xie

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) as an emerging paradigm utilizing cloudlet or fog nodes to extend remote cloud computing to the edge of the network, is foreseen as a key technology towards next generation wireless networks. By offloading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Long Chen , Jigang Wu , Xin Long , Zikai Zhang

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

We study a wireless edge-computing system which allows multiple users to simultaneously offload computation-intensive tasks to multiple massive-MIMO access points, each with a collocated multi-access edge computing (MEC) server.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

Energy harvesting aided mobile edge computing (MEC) has gained much attention for its widespread application in the computation-intensive, latency-sensitive and energy-hungry scenario. In this paper, computation offloading from multi-MD to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Tian Zhang , Wei Chen

Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) emerged as a viable computing allocation method that facilitates offloading tasks to edge servers for efficient processing. The integration of MEC with 5G, referred to as 5G-MEC, provides real-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Parisa Fard Moshiri , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci

By exploiting the superiority of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), NOMA-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) can provide scalable and low-latency computing services for the Internet of Things. However, given the prevalent stochasticity of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Meihui Hua , Hui Tian , Xinchen Lyu , Wanli Ni , Gaofeng Nie

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

Mobile edge caching (MEC) is a promising technique to improve the quality of service (QoS) for mobile users (MU) by bringing data to the network edge. However, optimizing the crucial QoS aspects of message freshness and service promptness,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Ran Li , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Lei Yang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is emerging to support delay-sensitive 5G applications at the edge of mobile networks. When a user moves erratically among multiple MEC nodes, the challenge of how to dynamically migrate its service to maintain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Huirong Ma , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

In this paper, we aim to address the challenge of hybrid mobile edge-quantum computing (MEQC) for sustainable task offloading scheduling in mobile networks. We develop cost-effective designs for both task offloading mode selection and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Ziqiang Ye , Yulan Gao , Yue Xiao , Minrui Xu , Han Yu , Dusit Niyato