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Our traditional notion of a cell is changing dramatically given the increasing degree of heterogeneity in 4G and emerging 5G systems. Rather than belonging to a specific cell, a device would choose the most suitable connection from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Katerina Smiljkovikj , Hisham Elshaer , Petar Popovski , Federico Boccardi , Mischa Dohler , Liljana Gavrilovska , Ralf Irmer

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

This letter investigates a cache-enabled multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system with dynamic task arrivals, taking into account the impact of proactive cache placement on the system's overall energy consumption. We consider that an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jingxuan Liang , Hong Xing , Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising approach for enhancing the quality-of-service (QoS) of AI-enabled applications in the B5G/6G era, by bringing computation capability closer to end-users at the network edge. In this work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Huaizhe Liu , Jiaqi Wu , Zhizongkai Wang , Bin Cao , Lin Gao

The integration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies has recently emerged as an effective solution for extending battery life and increasing the computing power of wireless devices. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yuegui Chen , Suzhi Bi , Xian Li , Xiaohui Lin , Hui Wang

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

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 the emergence of millimeter-Wave (mmWave) communication technology, the capacity of mobile backhaul networks can be significantly increased. On the other hand, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) provides an appropriate infrastructure to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Kyoomars Alizadeh Noghani , Hakim Ghazzai , Andreas Kassler

In this paper, we study resource allocation algorithm design for multi-user orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. To meet the stringent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Walid R. Ghanem , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

Nowadays, the convergence of mobile edge computing (MEC) and vehicular networks has emerged as a vital enabler for the ever-increasing intelligent onboard applications. This paper proposes a multi-tier task offloading mechanism for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yufei Ye , Shijian Gao , Xinhu Zheng , Liuqing Yang

Recently, Dynamic Time Division Duplex (TDD) has been proposed to handle the asymmetry of traffic demand between DownLink (DL) and UpLink (UL) in Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets). However, for mixed traffic consisting of best effort traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Qiang Fan , Hancheng Lu , Peilin Hong , Chang Wen Chen

Edge computing is a promising solution to enable low-latency IoT applications, by shifting computation from remote data centers to local devices, less powerful but closer to the end user devices. However, this creates the challenge on how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Mobile edge computing (MEC), affords service to the vicinity of mobile devices (MDs), has become a key technology for future network. Offloading big data to the MEC server for preprocessing is a attractive choice of MDs. In the paper, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Tian Zhang , Wei Chen , Feng Yang

Cache-assisted ultra-dense mobile edge computing (MEC) networks are a promising solution for meeting the increasing demands of numerous Internet-of-Things mobile devices (IMDs). To address the complex interferences caused by small base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Tianqing Zhou , Bobo Wang , Dong Qin , Xuefang Nie , Nan Jiang , Chunguo Li

This paper considers joint uplink/downlink of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)-based heterogeneous network (HetNet) consisting of a single macro base station (MBS), multiple femto base stations (FBSs) and access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Sepehr Rezvani , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan

Smart devices have become an indispensable part of our lives and gain increasing applicability in almost every area. Latency-aware applications such as Augmented Reality (AR), autonomous driving, and online gaming demand more resources such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Mostafa Hadadian Nejad Yousefi , Amirmasoud Ghiassi , Boshra Sadat Hashemi , Maziar Goudarzi

To overcome long propagation delays for data exchange between the remote cloud data center and end devices in Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC), Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is merging to push mobile computing, network control and storage to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zhenhua Duan , Cong Tian , Nan Zhang , Mengchu Zhou , Bin Yu , Xiaobing Wang , Jiangen Guo , Ying Wu

By offering shared computational facilities to which mobile devices can offload their computational tasks, the mobile edge computing framework is expanding the scope of applications that can be provided on resource-constrained devices. When…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mahsa Salmani , Timothy N. Davidson

This paper studies the offloading service improvement of multi-access edge computing (MEC) based on backscatter communication (BackCom) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (BAC-NOMA). A hybrid BAC-NOMA protocol is proposed, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haodong Li

The substantial growth in wireless data traffic, and the emergence of delay-sensitive application/services requiring ultra-low latency, has resulted into a new Mobile Network (MN) design paradigm called Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Thembelihle Dlamini