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Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is one of the enabling technologies for high-performance computing at the edge of the 6 G networks, supporting high data rates and ultra-low service latency. Although MEC is a remedy to meet the growing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ummy Habiba , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

To cope with the unprecedented surge in demand for data computing for the applications, the promising concept of multi-access edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the network edges to provide closer data processing for mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Qiqi Ren , Jian Chen , Omid Abbasi , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Halim Yanikomeroglu , F. Richard Yu

Network Functions Virtualization, or NFV, enables telecommunications infrastructure providers to replace special-purpose networking equipment with commodity servers running virtualized network functions (VNFs). A service provider utilizing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Freddy C. Chua , Julie Ward , Ying Zhang , Puneet Sharma , Bernardo A. Huberman

Driven by the visions of Internet of Things and 5G communications, recent years have seen a paradigm shift in mobile computing, from the centralized Mobile Cloud Computing towards Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). The main feature of MEC is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Yuyi Mao , Changsheng You , Jun Zhang , Kaibin Huang , Khaled B. Letaief

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

Driven by the emergence of new compute-intensive applications and the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is foreseen that the emerging 5G network will face an unprecedented increase in traffic volume and computation demands.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Quoc-Viet Pham , Fang Fang , Vu Nguyen Ha , Md. Jalil Piran , Mai Le , Long Bao Le , Won-Joo Hwang , Zhiguo Ding

This paper addresses join wireless and computing resource allocation in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems with several access points and with the possibility that users connect to many access points, and utilize the computation capability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 M. Zeng

This paper investigates an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based mobile-edge computing (MEC) network. Our objective is to minimize a linear combination of the completion time of all users' tasks and the total energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Zhaohui Yang , Cunhua Pan , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) emerges as an essential part of the upcoming Fifth Generation (5G) and future beyond-5G mobile communication systems. It adds computational power towards the edge of cellular networks, much closer to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bin Han , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Yihua Xu , Di Feng , Hans D. Schotten

The modularization of Service Function Chains (SFCs) in Network Function Virtualization (NFV) could introduce significant performance overhead and resource efficiency degradation due to introducing frequent packet transfer and consuming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Zili Meng , Jun Bi , Haiping Wang , Chen Sun , Hongxin Hu

This paper studies a multi-user cooperative mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, in which a local mobile user can offload intensive computation tasks to multiple nearby edge devices serving as helpers for remote execution. We focus on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-21 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Jie Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Mobile networks are becoming energy hungry, and this trend is expected to continue due to a surge in communication and computation demand. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), will entail energy-consuming services and applications, with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Neda Shalavi , Giovanni Perin , Andrea Zanella , Michele Rossi

With the growing demand for data connectivity, network service providers are faced with the task of reducing their capital and operational expenses while simultaneously improving network performance and addressing the increased connectivity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-23 Dimitrios Michael Manias , Manar Jammal , Hassan Hawilo , Abdallah Shami , Parisa Heidari , Adel Larabi , Richard Brunner

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

As mobile network users look forward to the connectivity speeds of 5G networks, service providers are facing challenges in complying with connectivity demands without substantial financial investments. Network Function Virtualization (NFV)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hassan Hawilo , Abdallah Shami , Maysam Mirahmadi , Rasool Asal

This work considers a parallel task execution strategy in vehicular edge computing (VEC) networks, where edge servers are deployed along the roadside to process offloaded computational tasks of vehicular users. To minimize the overall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sungho Cho , Sung Il Choi , Seung Hyun Oh , Ian P. Roberts , Sang Hyun Lee

Integrating mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) has been regarded as a promising technique to improve computation capabilities for self-sustainable Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This paper investigates a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Feng Wang

In this paper, we consider deploying multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to enhance the computation service of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) through collaborative computation among UAVs. In particular, the tasks of different types and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Bin Li , Rongrong Yang , Lei Liu , Celimuge Wu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising approach to deal with explosive computation requirements by enabling cloud computing capabilities at the edge of networks. Existing models of MEC impose some strong assumptions on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Tao Deng , Zhanwei Yu , Di Yuan

With the proliferation of computation-extensive and latency-critical applications in the 5G and beyond networks, mobile-edge computing (MEC) or fog computing, which provides cloud-like computation and/or storage capabilities at the network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Jie Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan