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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

We investigate the problem of computation offloading in a mobile edge computing architecture, where multiple energy-constrained users compete to offload their computational tasks to multiple servers through a shared wireless medium. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Navid Naderializadeh , Morteza Hashemi

To support emerging real-time monitoring and control applications, the timeliness of computation results is of critical importance to mobile-edge computing (MEC) systems. We propose a performance metric called age of task (AoT) based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-29 Xianxin Song , Xiaoqi Qin , Yunzheng Tao , Baoling Liu , Ping Zhang

We consider the problem of jointly optimizing users' offloading decisions, communication and computing resource allocation in a sliced multi-cell mobile edge computing (MEC) network. We minimize the weighted sum of the gap between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Sheyda Zarandi , Hina Tabassum

Task offloading and scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are vital for meeting the low-latency demands of modern IoT and dynamic task scheduling scenarios. MEC reduces the processing burden on resource-constrained devices by enabling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Arild Yonkeu , Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci

Merging mobile edge computing (MEC) functionality with the dense deployment of base stations (BSs) provides enormous benefits such as a real proximity, low latency access to computing resources. However, the envisioned integration creates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Yuxuan Sun , Sheng Zhou , Jie Xu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables the provision of high-reliability and low-latency applications by offering computation and storage resources in close proximity to end-users. Different from traditional computation task offloading in MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Rong Huang

In this paper, we jointly consider communication, caching and computation in a multi-user cache-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system, consisting of one base station (BS) of caching and computing capabilities and multiple users with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Ying Cui , Wen He , Chun Ni , Chengjun Guo , Zhi Liu

Computation offloading has become a popular solution to support computationally intensive and latency-sensitive applications by transferring computing tasks to mobile edge servers (MESs) for execution, which is known as mobile/multi-access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen

This paper investigates a rotatable antenna (RA) assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) network, where multiple users offload their computation tasks to an edge server equipped with an RA array under a time-division multiple access protocol.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ji Wang , Hao Chen , Yixuan Li , Jun Zhang , Xingwang Li , Ming Zeng , Octavia A. Dobre

In this paper, we present a novel mobile edge computing (MEC) model where the MEC server has the input and output data of all computation tasks and communicates with multiple caching-and-computing-enabled mobile devices via a shared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Hui Liu

Computation-efficient resource allocation strategies are of crucial importance in mobile edge computing networks. However, few works have focused on this issue. In this letter, weighted sum computation efficiency (CE) maximization problems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Yuhang Wu , Yuhao Wang , Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu

Driven by great demands on low-latency services of the edge devices (EDs), mobile edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the computing capacities at the edge of the radio access network. However, conventional MEC servers suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Pengfei Wang , Zijie Zheng , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

With recent advancements in edge computing capabilities, there has been a significant increase in utilizing the edge cloud for event-driven and time-sensitive computations. However, large-scale edge computing networks can suffer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Chien-Sheng Yang , Ramtin Pedarsani , A. Salman Avestimehr

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology for enhancing the computation capacities and features of mobile users by offloading complex computation tasks to the edge servers. However, mobility poses great challenges on delivering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zezu Liang , Yuan Liu , Tat-Ming Lok , Kaibin Huang

The restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) framework is a popular approach to solving resource allocation problems in networked systems. In this paper, we study optimal resource allocation in RMABs facing unknown and non-stationary dynamics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Vishrant Tripathi , Mung Chiang , Christopher G. Brinton

Energy demands from data centers have surged and stressed the grid in recent years. Electric grids require balancing supply and demand every second, motivating demand response (reduction) from large loads, including data centers. This can…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yifu Ding , Zixi Chen , Thomas Magnanti

This letter considers a multi-access mobile edge computing (MEC) network consisting of multiple users, multiple base stations, and a malicious eavesdropper. Specifically, the users adopt the partial offloading strategy by partitioning the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mingxiong Zhao , Huiqi Bao , Li Yin , Jianping Yao , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper investigates the intelligent computing task-oriented computing offloading and semantic compression in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. With the popularity of intelligent applications in various industries, terminals…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Rong Huang , Yapeng Wang

With the high flexibility of supporting resource-intensive and time-sensitive applications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed as an innovational paradigm to support the mobile users (MUs). As a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Wenshuai Liu , Bin Li , Wancheng Xie , Yueyue Dai , Zesong Fei