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In edge intelligence systems, deep neural network (DNN) partitioning and data offloading can provide real-time task inference for resource-constrained mobile devices. However, the inference time of DNNs is typically uncertain and cannot be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhaojun Nan , Yunchu Han , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

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

In this paper, we consider a hybrid mobile edge computing (H-MEC) platform, which includes ground stations (GSs), ground vehicles (GVs) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs), all with mobile edge cloud installed to enable user equipments (UEs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang , Li Dong , Cunhua Pan , Wei Xu , Kun Yang

We consider a dynamic multichannel access problem, where multiple correlated channels follow an unknown joint Markov model. A user at each time slot selects a channel to transmit data and receives a reward based on the success or failure of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Shangxing Wang , Hanpeng Liu , Pedro Henrique Gomes , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of mobile edge computing (MEC), on the premise of a cost-effective enhancement in the computational ability of hardware-constrained wireless devices (WDs) comprising the Internet of Things (IoT). In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jia Yan , Qin Lu , Georgios B. Giannakis

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

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

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

Deep neural network (DNN) inference is increasingly being executed on mobile and embedded platforms due to low latency and better privacy. However, efficient deployment on these platforms is challenging due to the intensive computation and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lei Xun , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi , Jonathon Hare , Geoff V. Merrett

Collaboration among industrial Internet of Things (IoT) devices and edge networks is essential to support computation-intensive deep neural network (DNN) inference services which require low delay and high accuracy. Sampling rate adaption…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-03 Wen Wu , Peng Yang , Weiting Zhang , Conghao Zhou , Xuemin , Shen

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables low-latency applications by bringing computation closer to the user, but dynamic task arrivals and communication threats like jamming complicate reliable task offloading and resource allocation. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ghazal Asemian , Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci

Mobile edge computing (MEC) can enhance the computing capability of mobile devices, and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can provide high data rates. Combining these two technologies can effectively benefit the network with spectrum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Fang Fang , Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Chao Shen , Mugen Peng , George K. Karagiannidis

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) can enhance the computing capability of mobile devices, while non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can provide high data rates. Combining these two strategies can effectively benefit the network with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Fang Fang , Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Chao Shen , Mugen Peng , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper studies a wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system with device-to-device (D2D)-enabled task offloading. In this system, a set of distributed multi-antenna energy transmitters (ETs) use collaborative energy beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Dixiao Wu , Feng Wang , Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu

We propose a novel strategy for energy-efficient dynamic computation offloading, in the context of edge-computing-aided beyond 5G networks. The goal is to minimize the energy consumption of the overall system, comprising multiple User…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Mattia Merluzzi , Nicola di Pietro , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

Mobile edge computing (MEC) networks bring computing and storage capabilities closer to edge devices, which reduces latency and improves network performance. However, to further reduce transmission and computation costs while satisfying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Xiangyu Gao , Yaping Sun , Hao Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Shuguang Cui

Deep neural networks (DNN) have become significant applications in both cloud-server and edge devices. Meanwhile, the growing number of DNNs on those platforms raises the need to execute multiple DNNs on the same device. This paper proposes…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Midia Reshadi , David Gregg

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

Designing decentralized policies for wireless communication networks is a crucial problem, which has only been partially solved in the literature so far. In this paper, we propose the Decentralized Markov Decision Process (Dec-MDP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Alessandro Biason , Subhrakanti Dey , Michele Zorzi

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) emerges as an essential part of the upcoming Fifth Generation (5G) and future beyond-5G mobile communication systems. It adds computational power towards the edge of cellular networks, much closer to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bin Han , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Yihua Xu , Di Feng , Hans D. Schotten