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Edge computing (EC) is a promising paradigm providing a distributed computing solution for users at the edge of the network. Preserving satisfactory quality of experience (QoE) for users when offloading their computation to EC is a…

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We consider a multi-user multi-server mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which users arrive on a network randomly over time and generate computation tasks, which will be computed either locally on their own computing devices or be…

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Developing reliable workload predictive models can affect many aspects of clinical decision making procedure. The primary challenge in healthcare systems is handling the demand uncertainty over the time. This issue becomes more critical for…

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Edge computing hosts applications close to the end users and enables low-latency real-time applications. Modern applications inturn have adopted the microservices architecture which composes applications as loosely coupled smaller…

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While mobile edge computing (MEC) alleviates the computation and power limitations of mobile devices, additional latency is incurred when offloading tasks to remote MEC servers. In this work, the power-delay tradeoff in the context of task…

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Emerging IoT-enabled cyber-physical applications demand low-latency, energy-efficient, and reliable execution across resource-constrained edge devices with heterogeneous multicore processors and diverse sensing and actuating capabilities,…

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Edge computing is a promising approach for localized data processing for many edge applications and systems including Internet of Things (IoT), where computationally intensive tasks in IoT devices could be divided into sub-tasks and…

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