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Recent years have witnessed the emergence of mobile edge computing (MEC), on the premise of a cost-effective enhancement in the computational ability of hardware-constrained wireless devices (WDs) comprising the Internet of Things (IoT). In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jia Yan , Qin Lu , Georgios B. Giannakis

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is an enabling technology to leverage new network applications, such as virtual/augmented reality, by providing faster task processing at the network edge. This is done by deploying servers closer to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Gabriel F. C. de Queiroz , José F. de Rezende , Valmir C. Barbosa

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) systems can use different multiple access schemes to coordinate multi-user task offloading. However, it is still unknown which scheme is the most energy-efficient, especially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qingjie Wu , Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Beixiong Zheng , Xiaoli Chu , Qingqing Wu

We present a dynamic resource allocation strategy for energy-efficient and Electromagnetic Field (EMF) exposure aware computation offloading at the wireless network edge. The goal is to maximize the overall system sum-rate of offloaded…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Mattia Merluzzi , Serge Bories , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

In mobile edge computing systems, mobile devices can offload compute-intensive tasks to a nearby cloudlet,so as to save energy and extend battery life. Unlike a fully-fledged cloud, a cloudlet is a small-scale datacenter deployed at a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Yinghao Yu , Jun Zhang , Khaled Ben Letaief

We study joint optimization of service placement, request routing, and CPU sizing in a cooperative MEC system. The problem is considered from the perspective of the service provider (SP), which delivers heterogeneous MEC-enabled…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Naeimeh Omidvar , Mahdieh Ahmadi , Seyed Mohammad Hosseini

The demand for stringent interactive quality-of-service has intensified in both mobile edge computing (MEC) and cloud systems, driven by the imperative to improve user experiences. As a result, the processing of computation-intensive tasks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ngoc Hung Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Anh Tuan Nguyen , Nguyen Van Thieu , Hoang Nam Nguyen , Symeon Chatzinotas

Edge machine learning can deliver low-latency and private artificial intelligent (AI) services for mobile devices by leveraging computation and storage resources at the network edge. This paper presents an energy-efficient edge processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Kai Yang , Yuanming Shi , Wei Yu , Zhi Ding

This paper studies a wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a dedicated energy transmitter (ET) uses the radio-frequency (RF) signal enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) to charge wireless devices for sustainable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Dixiao Wu , Feng Wang , Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu

In this paper, we consider a multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) network powered by wireless power transfer (WPT), where each energy-harvesting WD follows a binary computation offloading policy, i.e., data set of a task has to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

The aim of this paper is to propose a computation offloading strategy for mobile edge computing. We exploit the concept of call graph, which models a generic computer program as a set of procedures related to each other through a weighted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Sergio Barbarossa , Stefania Sardellitti

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) delivers low-latency services by hosting applications near end-users. To promote sustainability, these systems are increasingly integrated with renewable Energy Harvesting (EH) technologies, enabling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuyi Chen , Panagiotis Oikonomou , Zhengchang Hua , Nikos Tziritas , Karim Djemame , Nan Zhang , Georgios Theodoropoulos

With the fast development of mobile edge computing (MEC), there is an increasing demand for running complex applications on the edge. These complex applications can be represented as workflows where task dependencies are explicitly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xuejun Li , Tianxiang Chen , Dong Yuan , Jia Xu , Xiao Liu

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is seen as a vital component of forthcoming 6G wireless networks, aiming to support emerging applications that demand high service reliability and low latency. However, ensuring the ultra-reliable and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Arian Ahmadi , Anders Høst-Madsen , Zixiang Xiong

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as the enabling platform for a variety of promising applications, such as smart transportation and smart city, where massive devices are interconnected for data collection and processing. These IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Laha Ale , Ning Zhang , Xiaojie Fang , Xianfu Chen , Shaohua Wu , Longzhuang Li

This paper addresses the deadline-constrained task offloading and resource allocation problem in multi-access edge computing. We aim to determine where each task is offloaded and processed, as well as corresponding communication and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chuanchao Gao , Arvind Easwaran

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has recently become a prevailing technique to alleviate the intensive computation burden in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. However, the limited device battery capacity and stringent spectrum resource…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Xian Li , Suzhi Bi , Zhi Quan , Hui Wang

In this paper, a novel paradigm of mobile edge-quantum computing (MEQC) is proposed, which brings quantum computing capacities to mobile edge networks that are closer to mobile users (i.e., edge devices). First, we propose an MEQC system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Mingzhe Chen

We consider a heterogeneous network with mobile edge computing, where a user can offload its computation to one among multiple servers. In particular, we minimize the system-wide computation overhead by jointly optimizing the individual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Quoc-Viet Pham , Tuan LeAnh , Nguyen H. Tran , Choong Seon Hong

We consider the problem of intelligent and efficient task allocation mechanism in large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC), which can reduce delay and energy consumption in a parallel and distributed optimization. In this paper, we study the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaoxiong Zhong , Xinghan Wang , Yuanyuan Yang , Yang Qin , Xiaoke Ma , Tingting Yang