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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a new paradigm that provides cloud computing services at the edge of networks. To achieve better performance with limited computing resources, peer offloading between cooperative edge servers (e.g. MEC-…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Xingqiu He , Sheng Wang

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

The increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices generates a greater demand for data transfers and puts increased pressure on networks. Additionally, connectivity to cloud services can be costly and inefficient. Fog computing provides…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Faten Alenizi , Omer Rana

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

While mobile edge computing (MEC) alleviates the computation and power limitations of mobile devices, additional latency is incurred when offloading tasks to remote MEC servers. In this work, the power-delay tradeoff in the context of task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , H. Vincent Poor

Freshness-aware computation offloading has garnered great attention recently in the edge computing arena, with the aim of promptly obtaining up-to-date information and minimizing the transmission of outdated data. However, most of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Nan Qiao , Sheng Yue , Yongmin Zhang , Ju Ren

In remote regions (e.g., mountain and desert), cellular networks are usually sparsely deployed or unavailable. With the appearance of new applications (e.g., industrial automation and environment monitoring) in remote regions,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Dali Zhu , Haitao Liu , Ting Li , Jiyan Sun , Jie Liang , Hangsheng Zhang , Liru Geng , Yinlong Liu

We consider a multi-user multi-server mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which users arrive on a network randomly over time and generate computation tasks, which will be computed either locally on their own computing devices or be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Muhammad Sohaib , Sang-Woon Jeon , Wei Yu

In this paper, the fundamental problem of distribution and proactive caching of computing tasks in fog networks is studied under latency and reliability constraints. In the proposed scenario, computing can be executed either locally at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Mohammed S. Elbamby , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) as an emerging paradigm utilizing cloudlet or fog nodes to extend remote cloud computing to the edge of the network, is foreseen as a key technology towards next generation wireless networks. By offloading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Long Chen , Jigang Wu , Xin Long , Zikai Zhang

Computational offloading is a promising approach for overcoming resource constraints on client devices by moving some or all of an application's computations to remote servers. With the advent of specialized hardware accelerators, client…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Nathan Ng , David Irwin , Ananthram Swami , Don Towsley , Prashant Shenoy

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology is a promising solution to assist power-constrained IoT devices by providing additional computing resources for time-sensitive tasks. In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , Tamer Başar

This paper introduces REDC, a comprehensive strategy for offloading computational tasks within mobile Edge Networks (EN) to Distributed Computing (DC) after Rateless Encoding (RE). Despite the efficiency, reliability, and scalability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhongfu Guo , Xinsheng Ji , Wei You , Yu Zhao , Bai Yi , Lingwei Wang

With the rapid development of the low-altitude economy, air-ground integrated multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems are facing increasing demands for real-time and intelligent task scheduling. In such systems, task offloading and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yifan Xue , Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Zhiwen Yu , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Computing at the edge is increasingly important since a massive amount of data is generated. This poses challenges in transporting all that data to the remote data centers and cloud, where they can be processed and analyzed. On the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Christian Makaya , Amalendu Iyer , Jonathan Salfity , Madhu Athreya , M Anthony Lewis

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables resource-limited IoT devices to complete computation-intensive or delay-sensitive task by offloading the task to adjacent edge server deployed at the base station (BS), thus becoming an important…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xiang Li , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Xiangming Li

Emerging applications such as autonomous driving pose the challenge of efficient cost-driven offloading in edge-cloud environments. This involves assigning tasks to edge and cloud servers for separate execution, with the goal of minimizing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Longkun Guo , Jiawei Lin , Xuanming Xu , Peng Li

Mobile edge computing facilitates users to offload computation tasks to edge servers for meeting their stringent delay requirements. Previous works mainly explore task offloading when system-side information is given (e.g., server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xiong Wang , Jiancheng Ye , John C. S. Lui

Edge computing technology has great potential to improve various computation-intensive applications in vehicular networks by providing sufficient computation resources for vehicles. However, it is still a challenge to fully unleash the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Hewon Cho , Ying Cui , Jemin Lee

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