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Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC) leverages the idle computing capacity of vehicles to execute end-users' offloaded tasks without requiring new computation infrastructure. Despite its conceptual appeal, VCC adoption is hindered by the lack of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Rosario Patanè , Andrea Araldo , Nadjib Achir , Lila Boukhatem

Nowadays, the convergence of mobile edge computing (MEC) and vehicular networks has emerged as a vital enabler for the ever-increasing intelligent onboard applications. This paper proposes a multi-tier task offloading mechanism for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yufei Ye , Shijian Gao , Xinhu Zheng , Liuqing Yang

Edge computing facilitates low-latency services at the network's edge by distributing computation, communication, and storage resources within the geographic proximity of mobile and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The recent advancement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Xiaoyu Xia , Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah , Muhammad Ali Babar

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to enable real-time information transmission and computing by offloading computation tasks from wireless devices to network edge.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Mengyu Liu , Yuan Liu

To accommodate exponentially increasing traffic demands of vehicle-based applications, operators are utilizing offloading as a promising technique to improve quality of service (QoS), which gives rise to the application of Mobile Edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Zhijie Chen , Bo Yang , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

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

Many cloud-based applications employ a data centre as a central server to process data that is generated by edge devices, such as smartphones, tablets and wearables. This model places ever increasing demands on communication and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Blesson Varghese , Nan Wang , Sakil Barbhuiya , Peter Kilpatrick , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

As the amount of data that needs to be processed in real-time due to recent application developments increase, the need for a new computing paradigm is required. Edge computing resolves this issue by offloading computing resources required…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Nikheel Soni , Reza Malekian , Arnav Thakur

Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) are expected to be a key component of 6th generation (6G) networks to support broadband seamless Internet connectivity and expand the coverage even in rural and remote areas. In this context, High Altitude…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Alessandro Traspadini , Marco Giordani , Giovanni Giambene , Michele Zorzi

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

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

For decades, researchers on Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) and autonomous vehicles presented various solutions for vehicular safety and autonomy, respectively. Yet, the developed work in these two areas has been mostly conducted in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Yassine Maalej , Elyes Balti

The increasing complexity of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has led to significant interest in computational offloading to external infrastructures such as edge servers, vehicular nodes, and UAVs. These dynamic and heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ashab Uddin , Ahmed Hamdi Sakr , Ning Zhang

Code offloading is promising to accelerate mobile applications and save energy of mobile devices by shifting some computation to cloud. However, existing code offloading systems suffer from a long communication delay between mobile devices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Li Lin , Xiaofei Liao

Edge caching is being explored as a promising technology to alleviate the network burden of cellular networks by separating the computing functionalities away from cellular base stations. However, the service capability of existing caching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yao Zhang , Changle Li , Tom H. Luan , Yuchuan Fu , Weisong Shi , Lina Zhu

IoT and edge computing are profoundly changing the information era, bringing a hyper-connected and context-aware computing environment to reality. Connected vehicles are a critical outcome of this synergy, allowing for the seamless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Angelo Feraudo , Alessando Calvio , Armir Bujari , Paolo Bellavista

The autonomous vehicle industry is rapidly expanding, requiring significant computational resources for tasks like perception and decision-making. Vehicular edge computing has emerged to meet this need, utilizing roadside computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Suvarthi Sarkar , Abinash Kumar Ray , Aryabartta Sahu

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) enables low-latency and high-bandwidth applications by bringing computation and data storage closer to end-users. Intelligent computing is an important application of MEC, where computing resources are used to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Yapeng Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper studies a new mobile edge computing (MEC) setup where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is served by cellular ground base stations (GBSs) for computation offloading. The UAV flies between a give pair of initial and final…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang