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In this paper, the problem of minimizing energy and time consumption for task computation and transmission is studied in a mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled balloon network. In the considered network, each user needs to process a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Changchuan Yin , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

In light of the quick proliferation of Internet of things (IoT) devices and applications, fog radio access network (Fog-RAN) has been recently proposed for fifth generation (5G) wireless communications to assure the requirements of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Almuthanna T. Nassar , Yasin Yilmaz

Contrary to using distant and centralized cloud data center resources, employing decentralized resources at the edge of a network for processing data closer to user devices, such as smartphones and tablets, is an upcoming computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Cheol-Ho Hong , Blesson Varghese

With the proliferation of computation-extensive and latency-critical applications in the 5G and beyond networks, mobile-edge computing (MEC) or fog computing, which provides cloud-like computation and/or storage capabilities at the network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Jie Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Prior to the advent of the cloud, storage and processing services were accommodated by specialized hardware, however, this approach introduced a number of challenges in terms of scalability, energy efficiency, and cost. Then came the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Barzan A. Yosuf , Amal A. Alahmadi , T. E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Fog computing is an emerging paradigm that aims to improve the efficiency and QoS of cloud computing by extending the cloud to the edge of the network. This paper develops a comprehensive energy efficiency analysis framework based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Hatem Alharbi , Taisir E. H. Elgorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

This paper investigates an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based mobile-edge computing (MEC) network. Our objective is to minimize a linear combination of the completion time of all users' tasks and the total energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Zhaohui Yang , Cunhua Pan , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Federated Learning (FL) is an intriguing distributed machine learning approach due to its privacy-preserving characteristics. To balance the trade-off between energy and execution latency, and thus accommodate different demands and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao , Huimei Han , Claude Guet

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) facilitates the deployment of critical applications with stringent QoS requirements, latency in particular. This paper considers the problem of jointly planning the availability of computational resources…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Bin Xiang , Jocelyne Elias , Fabio Martignon , Elisabetta Di Nitto

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a relatively new technology. Their application can often involve complex and unseen problems. For instance, they can work in a cooperative-based environment under the supervision of a ground station to…

This paper studies a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)-aware fog computing network, where a multiple antenna fog function integrated hybrid access point (F-HAP) transfers information and energy to multiple…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Jingxian Liu , Ke Xiong , Pingyi Fan , Zhangdui Zhong , Khaled Ben Letaief

In mobile computation offloading (MCO), mobile devices (MDs) can choose to either execute tasks locally or to have them executed on a remote edge server (ES). This paper addresses the problem of assigning both the wireless communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hong Chen , Terence D. Todd , Dongmei Zhao , George Karakostas

The exponential growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smart vehicles, and latency-sensitive applications has created an urgent demand for efficient distributed computing paradigms. Multi-Fog Computing (MFC), as an extension of fog and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mohammad Hadi Akbarzadeh , Mahmood Ahmadi , Mohammad Saeed Jahangiry , Jae Young Hur

A novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based low-delay service framework is proposed for fog radio access networks (F-RANs). Fog access points (FAPs) leverage NOMA for local delivery of cached content, while the cloud access point…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Yuan Ai , Xidong Mu , Pengbo Si , Yuanwei Liu

Distributed fog and edge applications communicate over unreliable networks and are subject to high communication delays. This makes using existing distributed coordination technologies from cloud applications infeasible, as they are built…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tobias Pfandzelter , Trever Schirmer , David Bermbach

Fog computing becomes a promising technology to process user's requests near the proximity of users to reduce response time for latency-sensitive requests. Despite its advantages, the properties such as resource heterogeneity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Muhammad Fahimullah , Shohreh Ahvar , Maria Trocan

Future vehicles will have rich computing resources to support autonomous driving and be connected by wireless technologies. Vehicular fog networks (VeFN) have thus emerged to enable computing resource sharing via computation task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sheng Zhou , Yuxuan Sun , Zhiyuan Jiang , Zhisheng Niu

Field-deployable edge computing nodes form a network and are used to complete scientific tasks for remote sensing and monitoring. The networked nodes collectively decide which scientific applications to run while they are constrained by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Henry Abrahamson , Yongho Kim , Seongha Park , Ermin Wei

This paper is concerned with the resource allocation in a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided network for providing enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services for user equipments. Different from most of the existing network resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xing Xi , Xianbin Cao , Peng Yang , Jingxuan Chen , Dapeng Wu

Edge computing has become a very popular service that enables mobile devices to run complex tasks with the help of network-based computing resources. However, edge clouds are often resource-constrained, which makes resource allocation a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Caroline Rublein , Fidan Mehmeti , Mark Mahon , Thomas F. La Porta