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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted multi-access edge computing (MEC) has become one promising solution for energy-constrained devices to meet the computation demand and the stringent delay requirement. In this work, we investigate a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Nway Nway Ei , Madyan Alsenwi , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture, in which a UAV roaming around the area may serve as a computing server to help user equipment (UEs) compute their tasks or act as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-18 Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang , Zhongbin Zheng

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Weibin Ma , Lena Mashayekhy

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system is a prominent concept, where a UAV equipped with a MEC server is deployed to serve a number of terminal devices (TDs) of Internet of Things (IoT) in a finite period.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tiankui Zhang , Yu Xu , Jonathan Loo , Dingcheng Yang , Lin Xiao

Mobile-edge cloud computing is a new paradigm to provide cloud computing capabilities at the edge of pervasive radio access networks in close proximity to mobile users. Aiming at provisioning flexible on-demand mobile-edge cloud service, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Xu Chen , Wenzhong Li , Sanglu Lu , Zhi Zhou , Xiaoming Fu

This paper studies a new mobile edge computing (MEC) setup where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is served by cellular ground base stations (GBSs) for computation offloading. The UAV flies between a give pair of initial and final…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

When applying integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in future mobile networks, many sensing tasks have low latency requirements, preferably being implemented at terminals. However, terminals often have limited computing capabilities…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 Peng Liu , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Jingxuan Huang , Jie Hu , J. Andrew Zhang

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

We investigate a wireless power transfer (WPT)-based backscatter-mobile edge computing (MEC) network with a {reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)}.In this network, wireless devices (WDs) offload task bits and harvest energy, and they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-03 S. Zargari , C. Tellambura , S. Herath

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is powerful to alleviate the heavy computing tasks in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In this paper, we investigate joint beamforming and offloading design in a three-tier integrated sensing,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Peng Liu , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Yiqing Zhou , Yan Zhang , Fan Liu

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology enables the rapid growth of connected smart devices and mobile applications. However, due to the constrained resources and limited battery capacity, there are bottlenecks when utilizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Minxian Xu , Chengxi Gao , Shashikant Ilager , Huaming Wu , Chengzhong Xu , Rajkumar Buyya

Wireless powered mobile-edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance the data processing capability of low-power networks, such as wireless sensor networks and internet of things (IoT). In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Liang Huang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Computation offloading and resource allocation are critical in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to handle the massive and complex requirements of applications restricted by limited resources. In a multi-user multi-server MEC network, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianyi Shi , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Rong Huang , Yapeng Wang

In this paper, cooperative energy recycling (CER) is investigated in wireless-powered mobile edge computing systems. Unlike conventional architectures that rely solely on a dedicated power source, wireless sensors are additionally enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Haohao Qin , Bowen Gu , Dong Li , Xianhua Yu , Liejun Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Sumei Sun

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

In this paper, we consider a task offloading problem in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) network, in which edge users can either use their local processing unit to compute their tasks or offload their tasks to a nearby edge server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Babak Badnava , Keenan Roach , Kenny Cheung , Morteza Hashemi , Ness B Shroff

This paper considers non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted mobile edge computing (MEC), where the power and time allocation is jointly optimized to reduce the energy consumption of offloading. Closed-form expressions for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Zhiguo Ding , Jie Xu , Octavia A. Dobre , H. Vincent Poor

It is a big challenge for resource-limited mobile devices (MDs) to execute various complex and energy-consumed mobile applications. Fortunately, as a novel computing paradigm, edge computing (MEC) can provide abundant computing resources to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Binbin Huang , Zhongjin Lia , Peng Tang , Shangguang Wang , Jun Zhao , Haiyang Hua , Wanqing Lia , Victor Chang

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

Provided with mobile edge computing (MEC) services, wireless devices (WDs) no longer have to experience long latency in running their desired programs locally, but can pay to offload computation tasks to the edge server. Given its limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi , Lingjie Duan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang