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With the explosive demands for data, content delivery networks are facing ever-increasing challenges to meet end-users quality-of-experience requirements, especially in terms of delay. Content can be migrated from surrogate servers to local…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Sepideh Malektaji , Amin Ebrahimzadeh , Halima Elbiaze , Roch Glitho , Somayeh Kianpishe

Task offloading is of paramount importance to efficiently orchestrate vehicular wireless networks, necessitating the availability of information regarding the current network status and computational resources. However, due to the mobility…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ting Zhang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yan Zhang , Chau Yuen

With the increasing demand for multiple applications on internet of vehicles. It requires vehicles to carry out multiple computing tasks in real time. However, due to the insufficient computing capability of vehicles themselves, offloading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yu Xie , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan

By exploiting the superiority of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), NOMA-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) can provide scalable and low-latency computing services for the Internet of Things. However, given the prevalent stochasticity of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Meihui Hua , Hui Tian , Xinchen Lyu , Wanli Ni , Gaofeng Nie

The Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) system located close to the client allows mobile smart devices to offload their computations onto edge servers, enabling them to benefit from low-latency computing services. Both cloud service providers and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yanheng Guo , Yan Zhang , Linjie Wu , Mengxia Li , Xingjuan Cai , Jinjun Chen

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm to accommodate the increasingly prosperous delay-sensitive and computation-intensive applications in 5G systems. To achieve optimum computation performance in a dynamic MEC environment,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xian Li , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

In an edge-cloud system, mobile devices can offload their computation intensive tasks to an edge or cloud server to guarantee the quality of service or satisfy task deadline requirements. However, it is challenging to determine where tasks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Chuanchao Gao , Aryaman Shaan , Arvind Easwaran

We develop a novel framework for fully decentralized offloading policy design in multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems. The system comprises $N$ power-constrained user equipments (UEs) assisted by an edge server (ES) to process incoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Shubham Aggarwal , Melih Bastopcu , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Tamer Başar , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

Finding an optimal energy-efficient policy that is adaptable to underlying edge devices while meeting deadlines for tasks has always been challenging. This research studies generalized systems with multi-task, multi-deadline scenarios with…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xinyi Li , Ti Zhou , Haoyu Wang , Man Lin

The convergence of mobile edge computing (MEC) and blockchain is transforming the current computing services in mobile networks, by offering task offloading solutions with security enhancement empowered by blockchain mining. Nevertheless,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Dinh C. Nguyen , Ming Ding , Pubudu N. Pathirana , Aruna Seneviratne , Jun Li , H. Vincent Poor

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in Internet of Things (IoT) systems for various tasks such as image classification and object detection. However, heavyweight DNN models can hardly be deployed on edge devices due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Tinghao Zhang , Zhijun Li , Yongrui Chen , Kwok-Yan Lam , Jun Zhao

We present a model for measuring the impact of offloading soft real-time jobs over multi-tier cloud infrastructures. The jobs originate in mobile devices and offloading strategies may choose to execute them locally, in neighbouring devices,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Joaquim Silva , Eduardo R. B. Marques , Luís M. B Lopes , Fernando Silva

Edge computing allows for reduced latency and operational costs compared to centralized cloud systems. In this context, serverless functions are emerging as a lightweight and effective paradigm for managing computational tasks on edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Prakhar Jain , Prakhar Singhal , Divyansh Pandey , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Karthik Vaidhyanathan

In edge computing systems, autonomous agents must make fast local decisions while competing for shared resources. Existing MARL methods often resume to centralized critics or frequent communication, which fail under limited observability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Andrea Fox , Francesco De Pellegrini , Eitan Altman

The continuous evolution of future mobile communication systems is heading towards the integration of communication and computing, with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) emerging as a crucial means of implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Xinyang Du , Xuming Fang

Federated learning (FL) enables edge nodes to collaboratively contribute to constructing a global model without sharing their data. This is accomplished by devices computing local, private model updates that are then aggregated by a server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Sadi Alawadi , Addi Ait-Mlouk , Salman Toor , Andreas Hellander

With rapid advances in containerization techniques, the serverless computing model is becoming a valid candidate execution model in edge networking, similar to the widely used cloud model for applications that are stateless, single purpose…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mounir Bensalem , Erkan Ipek , Admela Jukan

The fifth and sixth generations of wireless communication networks are enabling tools such as internet of things devices, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and artificial intelligence, to improve the agricultural landscape using a network of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Anne Catherine Nguyen , Turgay Pamuklu , Aisha Syed , W. Sean Kennedy , Melike Erol-Kantarci

We are interested in the optimal scheduling of a collection of multi-component application jobs in an edge computing system that consists of geo-distributed edge computing nodes connected through a wide area network. The scheduling and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Zhi Cao , Honggang Zhang , Yu Cao , Benyuan Liu

Offloading computation-intensive tasks to edge clouds has become an efficient way to support resource constraint edge devices. However, task offloading delay is an issue largely due to the networks with limited capacities between edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Anselme Ndikumana , Kim Khoa Nguyen , Mohamed Cheriet