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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

Incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) in the Internet of Things (IoT) enables resource-limited IoT devices to offload their computation tasks to a nearby edge server. In this paper, we investigate an IoT system assisted by the MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Saman Atapattu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has already shown the potential in enabling mobile devices to bear the computation-intensive applications by offloading some tasks to a nearby access point (AP) integrated with a MEC server (MES). However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Joshua Bassey , Xiangfang Li , Timothy Kroecker , Lijun Qian

Opportunistic computation offloading is an effective method to improve the computation performance of mobile-edge computing (MEC) networks under dynamic edge environment. In this paper, we consider a multi-user MEC network with time-varying…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Suzhi Bi , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

In recent studies, researchers have developed various computation offloading frameworks for bringing cloud services closer to the user via edge networks. Specifically, an edge device needs to offload computationally intensive tasks because…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Andrew Crutcher , Caleb Koch , Kyle Coleman , Jon Patman , Flavio Esposito , Prasad Calyam

Edge intelligent applications like VR/AR and language model based chatbots have become widespread with the rapid expansion of IoT and mobile devices. However, constrained edge devices often cannot serve the increasingly large and complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zongshun Zhang , Ibrahim Matta

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

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent science, intelligent edge computing has been widely adopted. However, the limitations of traditional methods, such as poor adaptability and the slow convergence of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yongtao Yao , Yao Yang , Haorui Shi , Canglu Zhu , Miaojiang Chen , Ahmed Farouk

The powerful paradigm of Fog computing is currently receiving major interest, as it provides the possibility to integrate virtualized servers into networks and brings cloud service closer to end devices. To support this distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Jung-yeon Baek , Georges Kaddoum , Sahil Garg , Kuljeet Kaur , Vivianne Gravel

The growth in artificial intelligence (AI) technology has attracted substantial interests in latency-aware task offloading of mobile edge computing (MEC)-namely, minimizing service latency. Additionally, the use of MEC systems poses an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Minwoo Kim , Jonggyu Jang , Youngchol Choi , Hyun Jong Yang

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

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications demand efficient task offloading to handle heavy data loads with minimal latency. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) brings computation closer to devices to reduce latency and server load, optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Minod Perera , Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah , Sajib Mistry , Aneesh Krishna

Mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) offloads intensive mobile computation to clouds located at the edges of cellular networks. Thereby, MECO is envisioned as a promising technique for prolonging the battery lives and enhancing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) pushes computing functionalities away from the centralized cloud to the network edge, thereby meeting the latency requirements of many emerging mobile applications and saving backhaul network bandwidth. Although…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Jie Xu , Lixing Chen , Pan Zhou

This paper proposes a novel Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach for sim-to-real policy transfer of Vertical Take-Off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTOL-UAV). The proposed approach is designed for VTOL-UAV landing on offshore docking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ali M. Ali , Aryaman Gupta , Hashim A. Hashim

Smart and agile drones are fast becoming ubiquitous at the edge of the cloud. The usage of these drones are constrained by their limited power and compute capability. In this paper, we present a Transfer Learning (TL) based approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Aqeel Anwar , Arijit Raychowdhury

Computation offloading is indispensable for mobile edge computing (MEC). It uses edge resources to enable intensive computations and save energy for resource-constrained devices. Existing works generally impose strong assumptions on radio…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Tianxi Ji , Changqing Luo , Lixing Yu , Qianlong Wang , Siheng Chen , Arun Thapa , Pan Li

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology that provides cloud and IT services within the proximity of the mobile user. With the increasing number of mobile applications, mobile devices (MD) encounter limitations of their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Mahla Rahati-Quchani , Saeid Abrishami , Mehdi Feizi

Millions of sensors, cameras, meters, and other edge devices are deployed in networks to collect and analyse data. In many cases, such devices are powered only by Energy Harvesting(EH) and have limited energy available to analyse acquired…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jernej Hribar , Ryoichi Shinkuma , George Iosifidis , Ivana Dusparic