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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

A smart city improves operational efficiency and comfort of living by harnessing techniques such as the Internet of Things (IoT) to collect and process data for decision making. To better support smart cities, data collected by IoT should…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Laha Ale , Ning Zhang , Scott A. King , Jose Guardiola

With the advancement of IoT technology, various domains such as smart factories, smart cities and smart cars use the IoT to provide value-added services. In addition, technologies such as MEC and network slicing provide another opportunity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-25 JaeYoung Hwang , Lionel Nkenyereye , NakMyoung Sung , JaeHo Kim , JaeSeung Song

The demand for MEC has increased with the rise of data-intensive applications and 5G networks, while conventional cloud models struggle to satisfy low-latency requirements. While task offloading is crucial for minimizing latency on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Parisa Fard Moshiri , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) technology has been introduced to enable could computing at the edge of the network in order to help resource limited mobile devices with time sensitive data processing tasks. In this paradigm, mobile devices can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mohsen Sahraei Ardakani , Hong Wan , Rui Song

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged for reducing energy consumption and latency by allowing mobile users to offload computationally intensive tasks to the MEC server. Due to the spectrum reuse in small cell network, the inter-cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Jianen Yan , Ning Li , Zhaoxin Zhang , Alex X. Liu , Jose Fernan Martinez , Xin Yuan

In this paper, a semantic-aware joint communication and computation resource allocation framework is proposed for mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. In the considered system, each terminal device (TD) has a computation task, which needs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Yihan Cang , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Yuntao Hu , Yinlu Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) provides a flexible transmission framework that can be applied in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. However, the research work on RSMA-assisted MEC systems is still at the infancy and many design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Ding Xu , Lingjie Duan , Haitao Zhao , Hongbo Zhu

Future real-time applications like smart cities will use complex Machine Learning (ML) models for a variety of tasks. Timely status information is required for these applications to be reliable. Offloading computation to a mobile edge cloud…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Nitya Sathyavageeswaran , Roy D. Yates , Anand D. Sarwate , Narayan Mandayam

Due to the ever-increasing popularity of resource-hungry and delay-constrained mobile applications, the computation and storage capabilities of remote cloud has partially migrated towards the mobile edge, giving rise to the concept known as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Shermila Ranadheera , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

With the development of 5G technology, mobile edge computing (MEC) is becoming a useful architecture, which is envisioned as a cloud computing extension version. Users within MEC system could deal with data processing at edge terminals,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Hangfan Li , Xiaoxiong Zhong , Xinghan Wang , Yun Ji , Sheng Zhang

The emergence of 5G networks has enabled the deployment of a two-tier edge and vehicular-fog network. It comprises Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Vehicular-Fogs (VFs), strategically positioned closer to Internet of Things (IoT)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Frezer Guteta Wakgra , Binayak Kar , Seifu Birhanu Tadele , Shan-Hsiang Shen , Asif Uddin Khan

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) have been recognized as promising techniques in the Internet of Things (IoT) era to provide massive low-power wireless devices with enhanced computation capability and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Xin Wang , Shuguang Cui

In the field of multi-access edge computing (MEC), efficient computation offloading is crucial for improving resource utilization and reducing latency in dynamically changing environments. This paper introduces a new approach, termed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Runxin Han , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chau Yuen

Delay-sensitive Internet of Things (IoT) applications have drawn significant attention. Running many of these applications on IoT devices is challenging due to the limited processing resources of these devices and the need for real-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Azadeh Pourkabirian , Amir Masoud Rahmani , Kai Li , Wei Ni

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) can enhance the computing capability of mobile devices, while non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can provide high data rates. Combining these two strategies can effectively benefit the network with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Fang Fang , Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Chao Shen , Mugen Peng , George K. Karagiannidis

With the popularity of mobile devices and development of computationally intensive applications, researchers are focusing on offloading computation to Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) server due to its high computational efficiency and low…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yuwei Li , Bo Yang , Hao Wu , Qiaoni Han , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

Mobile edge computing facilitates users to offload computation tasks to edge servers for meeting their stringent delay requirements. Previous works mainly explore task offloading when system-side information is given (e.g., server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xiong Wang , Jiancheng Ye , John C. S. Lui

Achieving an end-to-end low-latency for computations offloading, in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems, is still a critical design problem. This is because the offloading of computational tasks via the MEC servers entails the use of uplink…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ali Al-Shuwaili , Ahmed Lawey

The recent advance of edge computing technology enables significant sensing performance improvement of Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In particular, an edge server (ES) is responsible for gathering sensing data from distributed sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Huawei Hou , Suzhi Bi , Xian Li , Shuoyao Wang , Liping Qian , Zhi Quan