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Task offloading is a key component in mobile edge computing. Offloading a task to a remote server takes communication and networking resources. An alternative is device-todevice (D2D) offloading, where a task of a device is offloaded to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

The growing gap between the increasing complexity of large language models (LLMs) and the limited computational budgets of edge devices poses a key challenge for efficient on-device inference, despite gradual improvements in hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Xiangchen Li , Dimitrios Spatharakis , Saeid Ghafouri , Jiakun Fan , Hans Vandierendonck , Deepu John , Bo Ji , Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained mobile devices presents significant challenges, particularly in achieving real-time performance while simultaneously coping with limited computational resources and battery life.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zekai Sun , Xiuxian Guan , Zheng Lin , Zihan Fang , Xiangming Cai , Zhe Chen , Fangming Liu , Heming Cui , Jie Xiong , Wei Ni , Chau Yuen

We present a dynamic resource allocation strategy for energy-efficient and Electromagnetic Field (EMF) exposure aware computation offloading at the wireless network edge. The goal is to maximize the overall system sum-rate of offloaded…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Mattia Merluzzi , Serge Bories , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

IoT devices are increasingly the source of data for machine learning (ML) applications running on edge servers. Data transmissions from devices to servers are often over local wireless networks whose bandwidth is not just limited but, more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Ruiqi Wang , Hanyang Liu , Jiaming Qiu , Moran Xu , Roch Guerin , Chenyang Lu

Deploying Machine Learning (ML) applications on resource-constrained mobile devices remains challenging due to limited computational resources and poor platform compatibility. While Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers offloading-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zekai Sun , Xiuxian Guan , Zheng Lin , Yuhao Qing , Haoze Song , Zihan Fang , Zhe Chen , Fangming Liu , Heming Cui , Wei Ni , Jun Luo

Learning at the edge is a challenging task from several perspectives, since data must be collected by end devices (e.g. sensors), possibly pre-processed (e.g. data compression), and finally processed remotely to output the result of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Mattia Merluzzi , Claudio Battiloro , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

The continuous evolution of future mobile communication systems is heading towards the integration of communication and computing, with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) emerging as a crucial means of implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Xinyang Du , Xuming Fang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) allows appliances to offload workloads to neighboring MEC servers that have the potential for computation-intensive tasks with limited computational capabilities. This paper studied how deep reinforcement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nguyen Chi Long , Trinh Van Chien , Ta Hai Tung , Van Son Nguyen , Trong-Minh Hoang , Nguyen Ngoc Hai Dang

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

We study a distributed machine learning problem carried out by an edge server and multiple agents in a wireless network. The objective is to minimize a global function that is a sum of the agents' local loss functions. And the optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Howard H. Yang , Zihan Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Edge Video Analytics (EVA) has gained significant attention as a major application of pervasive computing, enabling real-time visual processing. EVA pipelines, composed of deep neural networks (DNNs), typically demand efficient inference…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Thanh-Tung Nguyen , Lucas Liebe , Nhat-Quang Tau , Yuheng Wu , Jinghan Cheng , Dongman Lee

Upon the significant performance of the supervised deep neural networks, conventional procedures of developing ML system are \textit{task-centric}, which aims to maximize the task accuracy. However, we scrutinized this \textit{task-centric}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Kyung Ho Park , Hyunhee Chung , Soonwoo Kwon

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

This paper studies the computational offloading of CNN inference in device-edge co-inference systems. Inspired by the emerging paradigm semantic communication, we propose a novel autoencoder-based CNN architecture (AECNN), for effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Nan Li , Alexandros Iosifidis , Qi Zhang

In this paper, we consider a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a mixed-integer offloading strategy is used to assist the resource assignment for task offloading. Although the conventional branch and bound (BnB) approach…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-21 Yurong Qian , Jindan Xu , Shuhan Zhu , Wei Xu , Lisheng Fan , George K. Karagiannidis

Machine learning inference is increasingly being executed locally on mobile and embedded platforms, due to the clear advantages in latency, privacy and connectivity. In this paper, we present approaches for online resource management in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Lei Xun , Long Tran-Thanh , Bashir M Al-Hashimi , Geoff V. Merrett

Device-edge co-inference opens up new possibilities for resource-constrained wireless devices (WDs) to execute deep neural network (DNN)-based applications with heavy computation workloads. In particular, the WD executes the first few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Wireless powered mobile-edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance the data processing capability of low-power networks, such as wireless sensor networks and internet of things (IoT). In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Liang Huang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technique for providing low-latency access to services at the network edge. The services are hosted at various types of edge nodes with both computation and communication capabilities. Due to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Stephen Pasteris , Shiqiang Wang , Mark Herbster , Ting He