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Management and orchestration (MANO) of resources by virtual network functions (VNFs) represents one of the key challenges towards a fully virtualized network architecture as envisaged by 5G standards. Current threshold-based policies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Joan S Pujol Roig , David M. Gutierrez-Estevez , Deniz Gündüz

This paper proposes a novel multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) framework, where the computing tasks of terminal devices (TDs) can be decomposed into serial or parallel sub-tasks and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhenyu Zhao , Xiaoxia Xu , Tiankui Zhang , Junjie Li , Yuanwei Liu

By enabling spectrum sharing between radar and communication operations, the cell-free dual-functional radar-communication (CF-DFRC) system is a promising candidate to significantly improve spectrum efficiency in future sixth-generation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , You Li , Ran Yang , Phee Lep Yeoh , Wei Zhang , Guangyi Liu , Ning Wei

Computation offloading and resource allocation are critical in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to handle the massive and complex requirements of applications restricted by limited resources. In a multi-user multi-server MEC network, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianyi Shi , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Rong Huang , Yapeng Wang

Meeting the strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of terminals has imposed a signiffcant challenge on Multiaccess Edge Computing (MEC) systems, due to the limited multidimensional resources. To address this challenge, we propose a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Qianqian Liu , Haixia Zhang , Xin Zhang , Dongfeng Yuan

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) enables service providers to maximize the business profit via resource-efficient QoS provisioning for customer requested Service Function Chains (SFCs). In recent applications, end-to-end delay is one…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Fatemeh Yaghoubpour , Bahador Bakhshi , Fateme Seifi

Energy-efficient computation is an inevitable trend for mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. Resource allocation strategies for maximizing the computation efficiency are critically important. In this paper, computation efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu

Opportunistic computation offloading is an effective method to improve the computation performance of mobile-edge computing (MEC) networks under dynamic edge environment. In this paper, we consider a multi-user MEC network with time-varying…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Suzhi Bi , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Network function virtualization enables network operators to implement new services through a process called service function chain mapping. The concept of Service Function Chain (SFC) is introduced to provide complex services, which is an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Asghar Asgharian-Sardroud , Mohammad Hossein Izanlou , Amin Jabbari , Sepehr Mahmoodian Hamedani

High-quality Service Function Chaining (SFC) provisioning is provided by the timely execution of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in a defined sequence. Advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) solutions are utilized in many studies to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Murat Arda Onsu , Poonam Lohan , Burak Kantarci , Emil Janulewicz

Incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) in the 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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Saman Atapattu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

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

This paper proposes a vehicular edge federated learning (VEFL) solution, where an edge server leverages highly mobile connected vehicles' (CVs') onboard central processing units (CPUs) and local datasets to train a global model. Convergence…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Md Ferdous Pervej , Richeng Jin , Huaiyu Dai

We are interested in the optimal scheduling of a collection of multi-component application jobs in an edge computing system that consists of geo-distributed edge computing nodes connected through a wide area network. The scheduling and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Zhi Cao , Honggang Zhang , Yu Cao , Benyuan Liu

The increasing complexity of deep neural networks poses significant barriers to democratizing them to resource-limited edge devices. To address this challenge, split federated learning (SFL) has emerged as a promising solution by of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zheng Lin , Guanqiao Qu , Wei Wei , Xianhao Chen , Kin K. Leung

Federated Learning (FL) has been proposed as an appealing approach to handle data privacy issue of mobile devices compared to conventional machine learning at the remote cloud with raw user data uploading. By leveraging edge servers as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Siqi Luo , Xu Chen , Qiong Wu , Zhi Zhou , Shuai Yu

Federated Edge Learning (FEL), an emerging distributed Machine Learning (ML) paradigm, enables model training in a distributed environment while ensuring user privacy by using physical separation for each user data. However, with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jingbo Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Qiang Fan

As a promising technology, vehicular edge computing (VEC) can provide computing and caching services by deploying VEC servers near vehicles. However, VEC networks still face challenges such as high vehicle mobility. Digital twin (DT), an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yu Xie , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Jiangzhou Wang , Khaled B. Letaief

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

Massive internet of things microservices require integrating renewable energy harvesting into mobile edge computing (MEC) for sustainable eScience infrastructures. Spatiotemporal mismatches between stochastic task arrivals and intermittent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mubshra Zulfiqar , Muhammad Ayzed Mirza , Basit Qureshi