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We investigate the problem of computation offloading in a mobile edge computing architecture, where multiple energy-constrained users compete to offload their computational tasks to multiple servers through a shared wireless medium. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Navid Naderializadeh , Morteza Hashemi

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology in the 5G era. It is deemed an effective paradigm to support computation-intensive and delay critical applications even at energy-constrained and computation-limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Han Hu , Weiwei Song , Qun Wang , Rose Qingyang Hu , Hongbo Zhu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables low-latency and high-bandwidth applications by bringing computation and data storage closer to end-users. Intelligent computing is an important application of MEC, where computing resources are used to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Yapeng Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

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

Edge computing (EC) is a promising paradigm providing a distributed computing solution for users at the edge of the network. Preserving satisfactory quality of experience (QoE) for users when offloading their computation to EC is a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Weibin Ma , Lena Mashayekhy

We develop a novel framework for fully decentralized offloading policy design in multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems. The system comprises $N$ power-constrained user equipments (UEs) assisted by an edge server (ES) to process incoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Shubham Aggarwal , Melih Bastopcu , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Tamer Başar , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

Edge Computing (EC) is about remodeling the way data is handled, processed, and delivered within a vast heterogeneous network. One of the fundamental concepts of EC is to push the data processing near the edge by exploiting front-end…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Raby Hamadi , Abdullah Khanfor , Hakim Ghazzai , Yehia Massoud

To overcome devices' limitations in performing computation-intense applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) enables users to offload tasks to proximal MEC servers for faster task computation. However, current MEC system design is based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

Computation offloading and resource allocation are critical in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to handle the massive and complex requirements of applications restricted by limited resources. In a multi-user multi-server MEC network, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianyi Shi , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Rong Huang , Yapeng Wang

The rapid proliferation of latency-sensitive and battery-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications has intensified the need for intelligent workload placement mechanisms across the Edge-Cloud computing continuum. In such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Anastasios Giannopoulos , Sotirios Spantideas , Panagiotis Trakadas

This work considers a parallel task execution strategy in vehicular edge computing (VEC) networks, where edge servers are deployed along the roadside to process offloaded computational tasks of vehicular users. To minimize the overall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sungho Cho , Sung Il Choi , Seung Hyun Oh , Ian P. Roberts , Sang Hyun Lee

Technological evolution of mobile user equipments (UEs), such as smartphones or laptops, goes hand-in-hand with evolution of new mobile applications. However, running computationally demanding applications at the UEs is constrained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Pavel Mach , Zdenek Becvar

Multi-player multi-armed bandit is an increasingly relevant decision-making problem, motivated by applications to cognitive radio systems. Most research for this problem focuses exclusively on the settings that players have \textit{full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Guojun Xiong , Jian Li

With the fast development of mobile edge computing (MEC), there is an increasing demand for running complex applications on the edge. These complex applications can be represented as workflows where task dependencies are explicitly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xuejun Li , Tianxiang Chen , Dong Yuan , Jia Xu , Xiao Liu

Edge computing has become one of the key enablers for ultra-reliable and low-latency communications in the industrial Internet of Things in the fifth generation communication systems, and is also a promising technology in the future sixth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Xiaoyu Hao , Ruohai Zhao , Tao Yang , Yulin Hu , Bo Hu , Yuhe Qiu

We consider the latency minimization problem in a task-offloading scenario, where multiple servers are available to the user equipment for outsourcing computational tasks. To account for the temporally dynamic nature of the wireless links…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Aniq Ur Rahman , Gourab Ghatak , Antonio De Domenico

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology to release the tension between computation-intensive applications and resource-limited mobile terminals (MTs). In this paper, we study the delay-optimal computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Xianling Meng , Wei Wang , Yitu Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Zhaoyang Zhang

With the rapid advancement of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and vehicular communications, Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) is emerging as a promising technology to support low-latency ITS applications and services. In this paper,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Arash Bozorgchenani , Setareh Maghsudi , Daniele Tarchi , Ekram Hossain

The development of mobile services has impacted a variety of computation-intensive and time-sensitive applications, such as recommendation systems and daily payment methods. However, computing task competition involving limited resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Honghao Gao , Xuejie Wang , Xiaojin Ma , Wei Wei , Shahid Mumtaz