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Future AI applications require performance, reliability and privacy that the existing, cloud-dependant system architectures cannot provide. In this article, we study orchestration in the device-edge-cloud continuum, and focus on edge AI for…
Future scenarios, such as AR/VR, pose challenging latency and bandwidth requirements in 5G. This need is complemented by the adoption of cloud principles for providing services, particularly for virtualizing service components with which…
The Internet of Things is transforming our society by monitoring users and infrastructures' behavior to enable new services that will improve life quality and resource management. These applications require a vast amount of localized…
Robots are increasingly being used in a variety of applications, from manufacturing and healthcare to education and customer service. However, the mobility, power, and price points of these robots often dictate that they do not have…
A main challenge of 5G and beyond wireless systems is to efficiently utilize the available spectrum and simultaneously reduce the energy consumption. From the radio resource allocation perspective, the solution to this problem is to…
With the rapid advancement of devices requiring intensive computation, such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smart sensors, and wearable technology, the computational demands on individual platforms with limited resources have…
Fog computing, as a distributed paradigm, offers cloud-like services at the edge of the network with low latency and high-access bandwidth to support a diverse range of IoT application scenarios. To fully utilize the potential of this…
Next-generation wireless networks like 5G promise faster speed, shorter latency, and the ability to connect more devices. Such benefits are set to make drastic changes to the future society, empowering smart cities, enabling autonomous…
Nowadays IoT applications consist of a collection of loosely coupled modules, namely microservices, that can be managed and placed in a heterogeneous environment consisting of private and public resources. It follows that distributing the…
The rise of real-time data and the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices have highlighted the limitations of cloud-centric solutions, particularly regarding latency, bandwidth, and privacy. These challenges have driven the…
Network densification along with universal resources reuse is expected to play a key role in the realization of 5G radio access as an enabler for delivering most of the anticipated network capacity improvements. On the one hand, neither the…
The IoT's explosive growth has led to a massive number of connected devices, which demand high-speed and pervasive connectivity, posing significant challenges for current-generation wireless communication infrastructures. Considering our…
Facing the trend of merging wireless communications and multi-access edge computing (MEC), this article studies computation offloading in the beyond fifth-generation networks. To address the technical challenges originating from the…
To cope with the unprecedented surge in demand for data computing for the applications, the promising concept of multi-access edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the network edges to provide closer data processing for mobile…
The proliferation of connected vehicles along with the high demand for rich multimedia services constitute key challenges for the emerging 5G-enabled vehicular networks. These challenges include, but are not limited to, high spectral…
Augmented reality applications are bitrate intensive, delay-sensitive, and computationally demanding. To support them, mobile edge computing systems need to carefully manage both their networking and computing resources. To this end, we…
The evolution of smart cities demands scalable, secure, and energy-efficient architectures for real-time data processing. With the number of IoT devices expected to exceed 40 billion by 2030, traditional cloud-based systems are increasingly…
The smart grid utilizes many Internet of Things (IoT) applications to support its intelligent grid monitoring and control. The requirements of the IoT applications vary due to different tasks in the smart grid. In this paper, we propose a…
5G technology enhances industries with high-speed, reliable, low-latency communication, revolutionizing mobile broadband and supporting massive IoT connectivity. With the increasing complexity of applications on User Equipment (UE),…
Modern manufacturing systems require adaptive computing infrastructures that can respond to highly dynamic workloads and increasingly customized production demands. The compute continuum emerges as a promising solution, enabling flexible…