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Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides low-latency offloading solutions for computationally intensive tasks, effectively improving the computing efficiency and battery life of mobile devices. However, for data-intensive tasks or scenarios…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xuyang Chen , Daquan Feng , Wei Jiang , Qu Luo , Gaojie Chen , Yao Sun

An increasing number of mobile applications rely on Machine Learning (ML) routines for analyzing data. Executing such tasks at the user devices saves the energy spent on transmitting and processing large data volumes at distant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Apostolos Galanopoulos , George Iosifidis , Theodoros Salonidis , Douglas J. Leith

Nowadays, the convergence of mobile edge computing (MEC) and vehicular networks has emerged as a vital enabler for the ever-increasing intelligent onboard applications. This paper proposes a multi-tier task offloading mechanism for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yufei Ye , Shijian Gao , Xinhu Zheng , Liuqing Yang

This letter investigates computation offloading and transmit precoding co-design for multi-access edge computing (MEC), where multiple MEC users (MUs) equipped with multiple antennas access the MEC server in a non-orthogonal multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Deyou Zhang , Meng Wang , Shuo Shi , Ming Xiao

Energy efficiency and security are two critical issues for mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. With stochastic task arrivals, time-varying dynamic environment, and passive existing attackers, it is very challenging to offload computation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Qun Wang , Han Hu , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are mainstream in embodied intelligence but face high inference costs. Edge-Cloud Collaborative (ECC) deployment offers an effective fix by easing edge-device computing pressure to meet real-time needs.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zihao Zheng , Hangyu Cao , Jiayu Chen , Sicheng Tian , Chenyue Li , Maoliang Li , Xinhao Sun , Guojie Luo , Xiang Chen

Edge computing (EC), positioned near end devices, holds significant potential for delivering low-latency, energy-efficient, and secure services. This makes it a crucial component of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, the increasing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yang Li , Xing Zhang , Bo Lei , Qianying Zhao , Min Wei , Zheyan Qu , Wenbo Wang

Rare events, despite their infrequency, often carry critical information and require immediate attentions in mission-critical applications such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and industrial automation. The data-intensive nature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 You Zhou , Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang

We study joint optimization of service placement, request routing, and CPU sizing in a cooperative MEC system. The problem is considered from the perspective of the service provider (SP), which delivers heterogeneous MEC-enabled…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Naeimeh Omidvar , Mahdieh Ahmadi , Seyed Mohammad Hosseini

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

Hierarchical edge-cloud computing-aided Internet of Things (IoT) networks offer low-latency and cost-efficient services to a growing number of data-intensive IoT devices. However, optimizing service placement, which involves determining the…

Next-generation wireless networks will provide users ubiquitous low-latency computing services using devices at the network edge, called mobile edge computing (MEC). The key operation of MEC, mobile computation offloading (MCO), is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Seung-Woo Ko , Kaifeng Han , Kaibin Huang

This paper proposes a novel class of distributed continuous-time coordination algorithms to solve network optimization problems whose cost function is a sum of local cost functions associated to the individual agents. We establish the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Solmaz S. Kia , Jorge Cortes , Sonia Martinez

Network function Virtualization (NFV) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are promising 5G technologies to support resource-demanding mobile applications. In NFV, one must process the service function chain (SFC) in which a set of network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Phuong-Duy Nguyen , Long Bao Le

Scavenging the idling computation resources at the enormous number of mobile devices can provide a powerful platform for local mobile cloud computing. The vision can be realized by peer-to-peer cooperative computing between edge devices,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang

Fuel cost contributes to a significant portion of operating cost in cargo transportation. Though classic routing models usually treat fuel cost as input data, fuel consumption heavily depends on the travel speed, which has led to the study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Ricardo Fukasawa , Qie He , Fernando Santos , Yongjia Song

This paper studies a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which one base station (BS) serves multiple users with intensive computation tasks. We exploit the multi-antenna non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Zhiguo Ding

This paper introduces a novel computational approach for offloading sensor data processing tasks to servers in edge networks for better accuracy and makespan. A task is assigned with one of several offloading options, each comprises a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Negar Erfaniantaghvayi , Zhongyuan Zhao , Kevin Chan , Ananthram Swami , Santiago Segarra

This paper introduces REDC, a comprehensive strategy for offloading computational tasks within mobile Edge Networks (EN) to Distributed Computing (DC) after Rateless Encoding (RE). Despite the efficiency, reliability, and scalability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhongfu Guo , Xinsheng Ji , Wei You , Yu Zhao , Bai Yi , Lingwei Wang

This paper considers an energy harvesting (EH) based multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where each user utilizes the harvested energy from renewable energy sources to execute its computation tasks via computation offloading and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Zhifei Lin , Feng Wang , Licheng Liu