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Network coding is a highly efficient data dissemination mechanism for wireless networks. Since network coded information can only be recovered after delivering a sufficient number of coded packets, the resulting decoding delay can become…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rui A. Costa , Daniele Munaretto , Joerg Widmer , Joao Barros

We study the joint minimization of communication and computation costs in distributed computing, where a master node coordinates $N$ workers to evaluate a function over a library of $n$ files. Assuming that the function is decomposed into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Javad Maheri , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Petros Elia

We consider a computation offloading system where jobs are processed sequentially at a local server followed by a higher-capacity cloud server. The system offers two service modes, differing in how the processing is split between the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Darin Jeff , Eytan Modiano

With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the wide penetration of wireless networks, the surging demand for data communications and computing calls for the emerging edge computing paradigm. By moving the services and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Quyuan Luo , Shihong Hu , Changle Li , Guanghui Li , Weisong Shi

This invited paper presents some novel ideas on how to enhance the performance of consensus algorithms in distributed wireless sensor networks, when communication costs are considered. Of particular interest are consensus algorithms that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Steffen Limmer , Slawomir Stanczak , Mario Goldenbaum , Renato L. G. Cavalcante

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) enhances the capacities and features of mobile devices by offloading computation-intensive tasks over wireless networks to edge servers. One challenge faced by the deployment of MEC in cellular networks is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Zezu Liang , Yuan Liu , Tat-Ming Lok , Kaibin Huang

The emerging computing continuum paves the way for exploiting multiple computing devices, ranging from the edge to the cloud, to implement the control algorithm. Different computing units over the continuum are characterized by different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Xiyu Gu , Matthias Pezzutto , Luca Schenato , Subhrakanti Dey

Mobile edge computing (MEC) emerges as a promising solution for servicing delay-sensitive tasks at the edge network. A body of recent literature started to focus on cost-efficient service placement and request scheduling. This work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Lina Su , Ne Wang , Ruiting Zhou , Zongpeng Li

Computation-efficient resource allocation strategies are of crucial importance in mobile edge computing networks. However, few works have focused on this issue. In this letter, weighted sum computation efficiency (CE) maximization problems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Yuhang Wu , Yuhao Wang , Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system is a prominent concept, where a UAV equipped with a MEC server is deployed to serve a number of terminal devices (TDs) of Internet of Things (IoT) in a finite period.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tiankui Zhang , Yu Xu , Jonathan Loo , Dingcheng Yang , Lin Xiao

Wireless charging coupled with computation offloading in edge networks offers a promising solution for realizing power-hungry and computation intensive applications on user devices. We consider a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

We consider multi-hop wireless networks serving multiple flows in which only packets that meet hard end-to-end deadline constraints are useful, i.e., if a packet is not delivered to its destination node by its deadline, it is dropped from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Rahul Singh , P. R. Kumar

With growing deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning (ML) applications, which need to leverage computation on edge and cloud resources, it is important to develop algorithms and tools to place these distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xiangchen Zhao , Diyi Hu , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark are often used to process large-scale data computing jobs. In wireless scenarios, exchanging data among distributed nodes would seriously suffer from the communication bottleneck…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Youlong Wu , Zhenhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Shuai Ma , Yue Bi

Next-generation distributed computing networks (e.g., edge and fog computing) enable the efficient delivery of delay-sensitive, compute-intensive applications by facilitating access to computation resources in close proximity to end users.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yang Cai , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Andreas F. Molisch

Mobile edge computing provides users with a cloud environment close to the edge of the wireless network, supporting the computing intensive applications that have low latency requirements. The combination of offloading with the wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Ruoyun Chen , Hancheng Lu , Pengfei Ma

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology in the 5G era. It is deemed an effective paradigm to support computation-intensive and delay critical applications even at energy-constrained and computation-limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Han Hu , Weiwei Song , Qun Wang , Rose Qingyang Hu , Hongbo Zhu

The emergence of distributed Mixture-of-Experts (DMoE) systems, which deploy expert models at edge nodes, offers a pathway to achieving connected intelligence in sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks and edge artificial intelligence (AI).…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shengling Qin , Hai Wu , Hongyang Du , Kaibin Huang

Cloud Computing is the delivery of computing resources which includes servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence over the internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Ravi Shankar , Aryabartta Sahu

The cloud-based solutions are becoming inefficient due to considerably large time delays, high power consumption, security and privacy concerns caused by billions of connected wireless devices and typically zillions bytes of data they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Xiaolan Liu , Jiadong Yu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Gao , Toktam Mahmoodi , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Danny H. K. Tsang