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Mobile-edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) have been recognized as promising techniques in the Internet of Things (IoT) era to provide massive low-power wireless devices with enhanced computation capability and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Xin Wang , Shuguang Cui

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is expected to act as the enabler for the integration of 5G (and future 6G) communication technologies with cloud-computing-based capabilities at the edge of the network. This will enable low-latency and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Alessandro Noferi , Giovanni Nardini , Giovanni Stea , Antonio Virdis

Wireless charging coupled with computation offloading in edge networks offers a promising solution for realizing power-hungry and computation intensive applications on user devices. We consider a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems face critical challenges in coordinating trajectory planning, task offloading, and resource allocation while ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhiyu Wang , Suman Raj , Rajkumar Buyya

Edge computing is projected to become the dominant form of cloud computing in the future because of the significant advantages it brings to both users (less latency, higher throughput) and telecom operators (less Internet traffic, more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Chiara Caiazza , Claudio Cicconetti , Valerio Luconi , Alessio Vecchio

Network virtualization and SDN-based routing allow carriers to flexibly configure their networks in response to demand and unexpected network disruptions. However, cellular networks, by nature, pose some unique challenges because of user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Russell Ford , Ashwin Sridharan , Robert Margolies , Rittwik Jana , Sundeep Rangan

Departing from the classic paradigm of data-centric designs, the 6G networks for supporting edge AI features task-oriented techniques that focus on effective and efficient execution of AI task. Targeting end-to-end system performance, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Dingzhu Wen , Xiang Jiao , Peixi Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Kaibin Huang

This paper considers a wireless powered multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a multi-antenna access point (AP) employs the radio-frequency (RF) signal based wireless power transfer (WPT) to charge a number of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Feng Wang , Hong Xing , Jie Xu

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for energy-efficient, low-latency dynamic mobile edge computing (MEC), in the context of beyond 5G networks endowed with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). In our setting, new computing…

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

This paper investigates an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based mobile-edge computing (MEC) network. Our objective is to minimize the total energy consumption of all users including transmission energy and local computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-18 Zhaohui Yang , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Extreme Edge Computing (EEC) pushes computing even closer to end users than traditional Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), harnessing the idle resources of Extreme Edge Devices (EEDs) to enable low-latency, distributed processing. However,…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yasser Nabil , Mahmoud Abdelhadi , Sameh Sorour , Hesham ElSawy , Sara A. Elsayed , Hossam S. Hassanein

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play significant roles in multiple fields, which brings great challenges for the airspace safety. In order to achieve efficient surveillance and break the limitation of application scenarios caused by single…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Chao Dong , Yiyang Liao , Ziye Jia , Qihui Wu , Lei Zhang

In this paper, we study a mobile edge computing (MEC) system with the mobile device aided by multiple relay nodes for offloading data to an edge server. Specifically, the modes of decode-and-forward (DF) with time-division-multiple-access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Xiang Li , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Xianfu Chen

In virtualized computing platforms, energy consumption is related to the computing-plus-communication processes. However, most of the proposed energy consumption models and energy saving solutions found in literature consider only the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Thembelihle Dlamini , Ángel Fernandez Gambın

The cache and transcoding of the multi-access edge computing (MEC) server and wireless resource allocation in eNodeB interact and determine the quality of experience (QoE) of dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) clients in MEC…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Xinyu Huang , Lijun He , Liejun Wang , Fan Li

The number of satellites, especially those operating in low-earth orbit (LEO), is exploding in recent years. Additionally, the use of COTS hardware into those satellites enables a new paradigm of computing: orbital edge computing (OEC). OEC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Changhao Wu , Yuanchun Li , Mengwei Xu , Chongbin Guo , Zengshan Yin , Weiwei Gao , Chuanxiu Chi

In this paper, we propose a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing, communication, and computation network. Specifically, the treble-functional UAVs are capable of offering communication and edge computing services…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sicong Peng , Bin Li , Lei Liu , Zesong Fei , Dusit Niyato

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is viewed as an integral part of future wireless networks to support new applications with stringent service reliability and latency requirements. However, guaranteeing ultra-reliable and low-latency MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Arian Ahmadi , Omid Semiari , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Recently, the integration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology has given rise to a new area called mobile edge generation and computing (MEGC), which offers mobile users heterogeneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Yinyu Wu , Xuhui Zhang , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

The energy sustainability of multi-access edge computing (MEC) platforms is here addressed by developing Energy-Aware job Scheduling at the Edge (EASE), a computing resource scheduler for edge servers co-powered by renewable energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Giovanni Perin , Francesca Meneghello , Ruggero Carli , Luca Schenato , Michele Rossi