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Computing at the edge is increasingly important since a massive amount of data is generated. This poses challenges in transporting all that data to the remote data centers and cloud, where they can be processed and analyzed. On the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Christian Makaya , Amalendu Iyer , Jonathan Salfity , Madhu Athreya , M Anthony Lewis

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables rich services in close proximity to the end users to provide high quality of experience (QoE) and contributes to energy conservation compared with local computing, but results in increased communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mingxiong Zhao , Jun-Jie Yu , Wen-Tao Li , Di Liu , Shaowen Yao , Wei Feng , Changyang She , Tony Q. S. Quek

In the realm of mobile edge computing (MEC), efficient computation task offloading plays a pivotal role in ensuring a seamless quality of experience (QoE) for users. Maintaining a high QoE is paramount in today's interconnected world, where…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Iman Rahmaty , Hamed Shah-Mansouri , Ali Movaghar

We study a decentralized cooperative stochastic multi-armed bandit problem with $K$ arms on a network of $N$ agents. In our model, the reward distribution of each arm is the same for each agent and rewards are drawn independently across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 David Martínez-Rubio , Varun Kanade , Patrick Rebeschini

By executing offloaded tasks from mobile users, edge computing augments mobile user equipments (UEs) with computing/communications resources from edge nodes (ENs), enabling new services (e.g., real-time gaming). However, despite being more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Thai T. Vu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Khoa T. Phan , Diep N. Nguyen , Eryk Dutkiewicz

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

This paper considers a practical mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where edge server does not pre-install the program required to perform user offloaded computing tasks. A partial program offloading (PPO) scheme is proposed, which can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Taizhou Yi , Guopeng Zhang , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

In this paper, we investigate mobile edge computing (MEC) networks for intelligent internet of things (IoT), where multiple users have some computational tasks assisted by multiple computational access points (CAPs). By offloading some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Rui Zhao , Xinjie Wang , Junjuan Xia , Liseng Fan

We consider a mobile cloud computing system with multiple users, a remote cloud server, and a computing access point (CAP). The CAP serves both as the network access gateway and a computation service provider to the mobile users. It can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Meng-Hsi Chen , Min Dong , Ben Liang

Merging mobile edge computing (MEC) functionality with the dense deployment of base stations (BSs) provides enormous benefits such as a real proximity, low latency access to computing resources. However, the envisioned integration creates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Yuxuan Sun , Sheng Zhou , Jie Xu

In this paper, we consider a multi-user mobile-edge computing (MEC) network with time-varying wireless channels and stochastic user task data arrivals in sequential time frames. In particular, we aim to design an online computation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Suzhi Bi , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Researchers all over the world are employing a variety of analysis approaches in attempt to provide a safer and faster solution for sharing resources via a Multi-access Edge Computing system. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zain Khaliq , Ahmed Refaey Hussein

Mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) has been recognized as a promising solution to alleviate the burden of resource-limited Internet of Thing (IoT) devices by offloading computation tasks to the edge of cellular networks (also known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Xiangyu He , Hong Xing , Yue Chen , Arumugam Nallanathan

Offloading resource-intensive jobs to the cloud and nearby users is a promising approach to enhance mobile devices. This paper investigates a hybrid offloading system that takes both infrastructure-based networks and Ad-hoc networks into…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Hank H. Harvey , Ying Mao , Yantian Hou , Bo Sheng

Mobile devices supporting the "Internet of Things" (IoT), often have limited capabilities in computation, battery energy, and storage space, especially to support resource-intensive applications involving virtual reality (VR), augmented…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jianyu Wang , Jianli Pan , Flavio Esposito , Prasad Calyam , Zhicheng Yang , Prasant Mohapatra

Edge computing allows Service Providers (SPs) to enhance user experience by placing their services closer to the network edge. Determining the optimal provisioning of edge resources to meet the varying and uncertain demand cost-effectively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Jiaming Cheng , Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Duong Tung Nguyen

In this paper, a novel paradigm of mobile edge-quantum computing (MEQC) is proposed, which brings quantum computing capacities to mobile edge networks that are closer to mobile users (i.e., edge devices). First, we propose an MEQC system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Mingzhe Chen

Although Metaverse has recently been widely studied, its practical application still faces many challenges. One of the severe challenges is the lack of sufficient resources for computing and communication on local devices, resulting in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Zhilin Wang , Qin Hu , Minghui Xu , Honglu Jiang

Incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) in Internet of Things (IoT) enables resource-limited IoT devices to offload their computation tasks to a nearby edge server. In this paper, we investigate an IoT system assisted by the MEC technique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Saman Atapattu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis