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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered as an efficient method to relieve the computation burden of mobile devices. In order to reduce the energy consumption and time delay of mobile devices (MDs) in MEC, multiple users multiple input and…

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Exploiting quantum computing at the mobile edge holds immense potential for facilitating large-scale network design, processing multimodal data, optimizing resource management, and enhancing network security. In this paper, we propose a…

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To improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices, mobile-edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm by providing computing capabilities within radio access networks in close proximity. Nevertheless, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xianfu Chen , Honggang Zhang , Celimuge Wu , Shiwen Mao , Yusheng Ji , Mehdi Bennis

Facing the trend of merging wireless communications and multi-access edge computing (MEC), this article studies computation offloading in the beyond fifth-generation networks. To address the technical challenges originating from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Zhi Liu , Ning Zhang , Yusheng Ji

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

Computational offloading is a promising approach for overcoming resource constraints on client devices by moving some or all of an application's computations to remote servers. With the advent of specialized hardware accelerators, client…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Nathan Ng , David Irwin , Ananthram Swami , Don Towsley , Prashant Shenoy

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that mobile devices can offload the computation-intensive or latency-critical tasks to the nearby MEC servers, so as to save energy and extend battery life. Unlike the cloud server, MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Kang Cheng , Yinglei Teng , Weiqi Sun , An Liu , Xianbin Wang

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

Future networks (including 6G) are poised to accelerate the realisation of Internet of Everything. However, it will result in a high demand for computing resources to support new services. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yuelin Liu , Haiyuan Li , Xenofon Vasilakos , Rasheed Hussain , Dimitra Simeonidou

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm to meet the ever-increasing computation demands from mobile applications. By offloading the computationally intensive workloads to the MEC server, the quality of computation experience,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

By allowing a mobile device to offload computation-intensive tasks to a base station, mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for saving the mobile device's energy. In real applications, the offloading may span multiple fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Rongfei Fan , Fudong Li , Song Jin , Gongpu Wang , Hai Jiang , Shaohua Wu

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is an emerging technology for enhancing the computational capabilities of mobile devices and reducing their energy consumption via offloading complex computation tasks to the nearby servers. Multiuser MEC at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Zezu Liang , Yuan Liu , Tat-Ming Lok , Kaibin Huang

Edge computing is an emerging paradigm to enable low-latency applications, like mobile augmented reality, because it takes the computation on processing devices that are closer to the users. On the other hand, the need for highly scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) offloads intensive mobile computation to clouds located at the edges of cellular networks. Thereby, MECO is envisioned as a promising technique for prolonging the battery lives and enhancing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang

Although multi-access edge computing (MEC) has allowed for computation offloading at the network edge, weak wireless signals in the radio access network caused by obstacles and high network load are still preventing efficient edge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Elie El Haber , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine , Kim Khoa Nguyen

Deep-learning-based intelligent services have become prevalent in cyber-physical applications including smart cities and health-care. Deploying deep-learning-based intelligence near the end-user enhances privacy protection, responsiveness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Sina Shahhosseini , Dongjoo Seo , Anil Kanduri , Tianyi Hu , Sung-soo Lim , Bryan Donyanavard , Amir M. Rahmani , Nikil Dutt

With the rapid advancement of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and vehicular communications, Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) is emerging as a promising technology to support low-latency ITS applications and services. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Arash Bozorgchenani , Setareh Maghsudi , Daniele Tarchi , Ekram Hossain

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

This paper investigates the deep learning optimization problem with softmax cross-entropy loss. We propose a layer separation strategy to alleviate the strong nonconvexity encountered during training deep networks. For cross-entropy models…

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This paper introduces a novel computational approach for offloading sensor data processing tasks to servers in edge networks for better accuracy and makespan. A task is assigned with one of several offloading options, each comprises a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Negar Erfaniantaghvayi , Zhongyuan Zhao , Kevin Chan , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra