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Multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology is a promising solution to assist power-constrained IoT devices by providing additional computing resources for time-sensitive tasks. In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal task…

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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that mobile devices can offload the computation-intensive or latency-critical tasks to the nearby MEC servers, so as to save energy and extend battery life. Unlike the cloud server, MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Kang Cheng , Yinglei Teng , Weiqi Sun , An Liu , Xianbin Wang

Edge computing has evolved to be a promising avenue to enhance the system computing capability by offloading processing tasks from the cloud to edge devices. In this paper, we propose a multi-layer edge computing framework called EdgeFlow.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Chao Yao , Xiaoyang Wang , Zijie Zheng , Guangyu Sun , Lingyang Song

As billions of devices get connected to the Internet, it will not be sustainable to use the cloud as a centralised server. The way forward is to decentralise computations away from the cloud towards the edge of the network closer to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Blesson Varghese , Nan Wang , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos , Rajkumar Buyya

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

The Internet of Things (IoT) requires a new processing paradigm that inherits the scalability of the cloud while minimizing network latency using resources closer to the network edge. Building up such flexibility within the edge-to-cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Zeinab Nezami , Kamran Zamanifar , Karim Djemame , Evangelos Pournaras

In this paper, we jointly optimize computation offloading and resource allocation to minimize the weighted sum of energy consumption of all mobile users in a backhaul limited cooperative MEC system with multiple fog servers. Considering the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Phuong-Duy Nguyen , Vu Nguyen Ha , Long Bao Le

With the high flexibility of supporting resource-intensive and time-sensitive applications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed as an innovational paradigm to support the mobile users (MUs). As a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Wenshuai Liu , Bin Li , Wancheng Xie , Yueyue Dai , Zesong Fei

Computational offloading is a promising approach for overcoming resource constraints on client devices by moving some or all of an application's computations to remote servers. With the advent of specialized hardware accelerators, client…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Nathan Ng , David Irwin , Ananthram Swami , Don Towsley , Prashant Shenoy

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides users with a high quality experience (QoE) by placing servers with rich services close to the end users. Compared with local computing, MEC can contribute to energy saving, but results in increased…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-24 JunJie Yu , Han Wang , Mingxiong Zhao , WenTao Li , HuiQi Bao , Li Yin , Mi Wu

Edge-cloud collaborative computing (ECCC) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for addressing the computational demands of modern intelligent applications, integrating cloud resources with edge devices to enable efficient, low-latency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jing Liu , Yao Du , Kun Yang , Jiaqi Wu , Yan Wang , Xiping Hu , Zehua Wang , Yang Liu , Peng Sun , Azzedine Boukerche , Victor C. M. Leung

In the realm of mobile edge computing (MEC), efficient computation task offloading plays a pivotal role in ensuring a seamless quality of experience (QoE) for users. Maintaining a high QoE is paramount in today's interconnected world, where…

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With the rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and a wide range of mobile devices, the conventional cloud computing paradigm faces significant challenges (high latency, bandwidth cost, etc.). Motivated by those constraints and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Thong Vo , Pranjal Dave , Gaurav Bajpai , Rasha Kashef

In Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), Internet of Things (IoT) devices offload computationally-intensive tasks to edge nodes, where they are executed within containers, reducing the reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. Frequent upgrades…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Jiong Lou , Weijia Jia

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…

Technological evolution of mobile user equipments (UEs), such as smartphones or laptops, goes hand-in-hand with evolution of new mobile applications. However, running computationally demanding applications at the UEs is constrained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Pavel Mach , Zdenek Becvar

Motivated by applications such as on-device collaborative neural network inference, this work investigates edge-facilitated collaborative fog computing - in which edge-devices collaborate with each other and with the edge of the network to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Antoine Paris , Hamed Mirghasemi , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

Emerging applications in healthcare, autonomous vehicles, and wearable assistance require interactive and low-latency data analysis services. Unfortunately, cloud-centric architectures cannot fulfill the low-latency demands of these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Niloofar Gholipour , Marcos Dias de Assuncao , Pranav Agarwal , julien gascon-samson , Rajkumar Buyya

Edge computing provides a cloud-like architecture where small-scale resources are distributed near the network edge, enabling applications on resource-constrained devices to offload latency-critical computations to these resources. While…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Muhammad Danish Waseem , Ahmed Ali-Eldin

The growing need for low-latency access to computing resources has motivated the introduction of edge computing, where resources are strategically placed at the access networks. Unfortunately, edge computing infrastructures like fogs and…

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