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After the advent of the Internet of Things and 5G networks, edge computing became the center of attraction. The tasks demanding high computation are generally offloaded to the cloud since the edge is resource-limited. The Edge Cloud is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hassan Asghar , Eun-Sung Jung

In this paper, we provide a rigorous theoretical investigation of an online learning version of the Facility Location problem which is motivated by emerging problems in real-world applications. In our formulation, we are given a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Stephen Pasteris , Ting He , Fabio Vitale , Shiqiang Wang , Mark Herbster

In the open online dial-a-ride problem, a single server has to deliver transportation requests appearing over time in some metric space, subject to minimizing the completion time. We improve on the best known upper bounds on the competitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Julia Baligacs , Yann Disser , Farehe Soheil , David Weckbecker

Federated learning has been explored as a promising solution for training at the edge, where end devices collaborate to train models without sharing data with other entities. Since the execution of these learning models occurs at the edge,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Silvana Trindade , Luiz F. Bittencourt , Nelson L. S. da Fonseca

Mobile edge caching enables content delivery within the radio access network, which effectively alleviates the backhaul burden and reduces response time. To fully exploit edge storage resources, the most popular contents should be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Peng Yang , Ning Zhang , Shan Zhang , Li Yu , Junshan Zhang , Xuemin Shen

In this paper, with the aim of addressing the stringent computing and quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of recently introduced advanced multimedia services, we consider a cell-free massive MIMO-enabled mobile edge network. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Fitsum Debebe Tilahun , Ameha Tsegaye Abebe , Chung G. Kang

Placing applications in mobile edge computing servers presents a complex challenge involving many servers, users, and their requests. Existing algorithms take a long time to solve high-dimensional problems with significant uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Taha-Hossein Hejazi , Zahra Ghadimkhani , Arezoo Borji

Hierarchical federated learning (HFL) shows great advantages over conventional two-layer federated learning (FL) in reducing network overhead and interaction latency while still retaining the data privacy of distributed FL clients. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Bibo Wu , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang , Donghong Cai , Shu Fu , Zhiguo Ding

A current trend in networking and cloud computing is to provide compute resources over widely dispersed places exemplified by initiatives like Network Function Virtualisation. This paves the way for a widespread service deployment and can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Matthias Keller , Holger Karl

Edge computing has become a promising computing paradigm for building IoT (Internet of Things) applications, particularly for applications with specific constraints such as latency or privacy requirements. Due to resource constraints at the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Fei Hu , Kunal Mehta , Shivakant Mishra , Mohammad AlMutawa

In this paper, we investigate the online allocation problem of maximizing the overall revenue subject to both lower and upper bound constraints. Compared to the extensively studied online problems with only resource upper bounds, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Qixin Zhang , Wenbing Ye , Zaiyi Chen , Haoyuan Hu , Enhong Chen , Yang Yu

Cloud computing, despite its advantages in scalability, may not always fully satisfy the low-latency demands of emerging latency-sensitive pervasive applications. The cloud-edge continuum addresses this by integrating the responsiveness of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Xu Bai , Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam , Rajkumar Buyya , Adel N. Toosi

This paper studies the joint optimization of edge node activation and resource pricing in edge computing, where an edge computing platform provides heterogeneous resources to accommodate multiple services with diverse preferences. We cast…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Tarannum Nisha , Ni Trieu , Duong Tung Nguyen

Mobile edge computing seeks to provide resources to different delay-sensitive applications. This is a challenging problem as an edge cloud-service provider may not have sufficient resources to satisfy all resource requests. Furthermore,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Faheem Zafari , Kin K. Leung , Don Towsley , Prithwish Basu , Ananthram Swami , Jian Li

Mobile edge computing is beneficial to reduce service response time and core network traffic by pushing cloud functionalities to network edge. Equipped with storage and computation capacities, edge nodes can cache services of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xiao Ma , Ao Zhou , Shan Zhang , Shangguang Wang

In this paper, we consider resource allocation for edge computing in internet of things (IoT) networks. Specifically, each end device is considered as an agent, which makes its decisions on whether offloading the computation tasks to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Xiaolan Liu , Zhijin Qin , Yue Gao

Cloud Computing (CC) is the most prevalent paradigm under which services are provided over the Internet. The most relevant feature for its success is its capability to promptly scale service based on user demand. When scaling, the main…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mathieu Simon , Alessandro Spallina , Loic Dubocquet , Andrea Araldo

Renting servers in the cloud is a generalization of the bin packing problem, motivated by job allocation to servers in cloud computing applications. Jobs arrive in an online manner, and need to be assigned to servers; their duration and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Mahtab Masoori , Lata Narayanan , Denis Pankratov

As a key technology in the 5G era, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has developed rapidly in recent years. MEC aims to reduce the service delay of mobile users, while alleviating the processing pressure on the core network. MEC can be regarded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Minxian Xu , Qiheng Zhou , Huaming Wu , Weiwei Lin , Kejiang Ye , Chengzhong Xu

Serverless computing has emerged as a new paradigm for running short-lived computations in the cloud. Due to its ability to handle IoT workloads, there has been considerable interest in running serverless functions at the edge. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Bin Wang , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy