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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

Satellite edge computing has become a promising way to provide computing services for Internet of Things (IoT) devices in remote areas, which are out of the coverage of terrestrial networks, nevertheless, it is not suitable for large-scale…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Xiangqiang Gao , Rongke Liu , Aryan Kaushik

In the traditional cellular-based mobile edge computing (MEC), users at the edge of the cell are prone to suffer severe inter-cell interference and signal attenuation, leading to low throughput even transmission interruptions. Such edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Langtian Qin , Hancheng Lu , Yuang Chen , Baolin Chong , Feng Wu

The explosive growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has strained traditional cloud infrastructures, highlighting the need for low-latency and energy-efficient alternatives. Fog computing addresses this by placing computation near the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Negin Doostar , Mohammad Reza Heidarpour , Amir Khorsandi

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a new paradigm, enabling service innovation through virtualization of traditional network functions located flexibly in the network in form of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Since VNFs can only be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Francisco Carpio , Samia Dhahri , Admela Jukan

Mean field control (MFC) problems have been introduced to study social optima in very large populations of strategic agents. The main idea is to consider an infinite population and to simplify the analysis by using a mean field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Sebastian Baudelet , Brieuc Frénais , Mathieu Laurière , Amal Machtalay , Yuchen Zhu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged for reducing energy consumption and latency by allowing mobile users to offload computationally intensive tasks to the MEC server. Due to the spectrum reuse in small cell network, the inter-cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Jianen Yan , Ning Li , Zhaoxin Zhang , Alex X. Liu , Jose Fernan Martinez , Xin Yuan

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables low-latency applications by bringing computation closer to the user, but dynamic task arrivals and communication threats like jamming complicate reliable task offloading and resource allocation. In this…

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

In recent years, multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a key enabler for handling the massive expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) applications and services. However, energy consumption of a MEC network depends on volatile tasks that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-07 Md. Shirajum Munir , Sarder Fakhrul Abedin , Nguyen H. Tran , Zhu Han , Eui-Nam Huh , Choong Seon Hong

The shift towards a completely virtualized networking environment is triggered by the emergence of software defined networking and network function virtualization (NFV). Network service providers have unlocked immense capabilities by these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Ibrahim Tamim , Manar Jammal , Hassan Hawilo , Abdallah Shami

Caching high-frequency reuse contents at the edge servers in the mobile edge computing (MEC) network omits the part of backhaul transmission and further releases the pressure of data traffic. However, how to efficiently decide the caching…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yuqi Han , Rui Wang , Jun Wu , Dian Liu , Haoqi Ren

To improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices, mobile-edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm by providing computing capabilities in close proximity within a sliced radio access network (RAN), which supports both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Xianfu Chen , Honggang Zhang , Celimuge Wu , Shiwen Mao , Yusheng Ji , Mehdi Bennis

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) provides a flexible transmission framework that can be applied in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. However, the research work on RSMA-assisted MEC systems is still at the infancy and many design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Ding Xu , Lingjie Duan , Haitao Zhao , Hongbo Zhu

The SDN and NFV paradigms enable novel network services which can be realized and embedded in a flexible and rapid manner. For example, SDN can be used to flexibly steer traffic from a source to a destination through a sequence of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Matthias Rost , Stefan Schmid

As an important component of the sixth generation communication technologies, the space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) attracts increasing attentions in recent years. However, due to the mobility and heterogeneity of the components…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Ziye Jia , Yilu Cao , Lijun He , Qihui Wu , Qiuming Zhu , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

This paper explores concurrent FL processes within a three-tier system, with edge servers between edge devices and FL servers. A challenge in this setup is the limited bandwidth from edge devices to edge servers. Thus, allocating the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Md Anwar Hossen , Fatema Siddika , Wensheng Zhang

With the proliferation of computation-extensive and latency-critical applications in the 5G and beyond networks, mobile-edge computing (MEC) or fog computing, which provides cloud-like computation and/or storage capabilities at the network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Jie Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper, we investigate the computational resource allocation problem in a distributed Ad-Hoc vehicular network with no centralized infrastructure support. To support the ever increasing computational needs in such a vehicular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Shilin Xu , Caili Guo , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

The emergence of technologies such as 5G and mobile edge computing has enabled provisioning of different types of services with different resource and service requirements to the vehicles in a vehicular network.The growing complexity of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Anum Talpur , Mohan Gurusamy

Integrating renewable energy into the power grid while balancing supply and demand is a complex issue, given its intermittent nature. Demand side management (DSM) offers solutions to this challenge. We propose a new method for DSM, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Bianca Marin Moreno , Margaux Brégère , Pierre Gaillard , Nadia Oudjane