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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) reduces the computational burden on terminal devices by shortening the distance between these devices and computing nodes. Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with enhanced MEC networks can leverage the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhiying Wang , Tianxi Wei , Gang Sun , Xinyue Liu , Hongfang Yu , Dusit Niyato

In cloud-edge-device (CED) collaborative query (CQ) processing, by leveraging CED collaboration, the advantages of both cloud computing and edge resources can be fully integrated. However, it is difficult to implement collaborative…

In Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) networks, users covered by a mobile network can exploit edge clouds (ECs), computational resources located at the network's edge, to execute virtual network functions (VNFs). ECs are particularly useful…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Federico Giarrè , Holger Karl

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

In Edge Computing (EC), containers have been increasingly used to deploy applications to provide mobile users services. Each container must run based on a container image file that exists locally. However, it has been conspicuously…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Fangyi Mou , Zhiqing Tang , Jiong Lou , Jianxiong Guo , Wenhua Wang , Tian Wang

Task scheduling is a well-studied problem in the context of optimizing the Quality of Service (QoS) of cloud computing environments. In order to sustain the rapid growth of computational demands, one of the most important QoS metrics for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shreshth Tuli , Giuliano Casale , Nicholas R. Jennings

This paper studies task-oriented edge networks where multiple edge internet-of-things nodes execute machine learning tasks with the help of powerful deep neural networks (DNNs) at a network cloud. Separate edge nodes (ENs) result in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hoon Lee , Seung-Wook Kim

The convergence of mobile edge computing (MEC) and blockchain is transforming the current computing services in mobile networks, by offering task offloading solutions with security enhancement empowered by blockchain mining. Nevertheless,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Dinh C. Nguyen , Ming Ding , Pubudu N. Pathirana , Aruna Seneviratne , Jun Li , H. Vincent Poor

Edge computing has been developed to utilize multiple tiers of resources for privacy, cost and Quality of Service (QoS) reasons. Edge workloads have the characteristics of data-driven and latency-sensitive. Because of this, edge systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Qirui Yang , Runyu Jin , Nabil Gandhi , Xiongzi Ge , Hoda Aghaei Khouzani , Ming Zhao

Modern applications increasingly span across cloud, fog, and edge environments, demanding orchestration systems that can adapt to diverse deployment contexts while meeting Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements. Standard Kubernetes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haci Ismail Aslan , Syed Muhammad Mahmudul Haque , Joel Witzke , Odej Kao

The Metaverse can be considered the extension of the present-day web, which integrates the physical and virtual worlds, delivering hyper-realistic user experiences. The inception of the Metaverse brings forth many ecosystem services such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Terence Jie Chua , Wenhan Yu , Jun Zhao

As an emerging computing paradigm, mobile edge computing (MEC) provides processing capabilities at the network edge, aiming to reduce latency and improve user experience. Meanwhile, the advancement of containerization technology facilitates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Xinlei Ge , Yang Li , Xing Zhang , Yukun Sun , Yunji Zhao

The demand for low-power inference and training of deep neural networks (DNNs) on edge devices has intensified the need for algorithms that are both scalable and energy-efficient. While spiking neural networks (SNNs) allow for efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Marco Paul E. Apolinario , Kaushik Roy , Charlotte Frenkel

Edge computing has emerged as a pivotal technology, offering significant advantages such as low latency, enhanced data security, and reduced reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. These benefits are crucial for applications requiring…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Tomasz Szydlo , Viacheslav Horbanov , Devki Nandan Jha , Shashikant Ilager , Aleksander Slominski , Rajiv Ranjan

Pure Edge computing (PEC) aims to bring cloud applications and services to the edge of the network to support the growing user demand for time-sensitive applications and data-driven computing. However, mobility and limited computational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Zahra Safavifar , Charafeddine Mechalikh , Fatemeh Golpayegani

Collaborative Edge Computing (CEC) is an effective method that improves the performance of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems by offloading computation tasks from busy edge servers (ESs) to idle ones. However, ESs usually belong to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xingqiu He , Yuhang Shen , Hongxi Zhu , Sheng Wang , Chaoqun You , Tony Q. S. Quek

Nowadays a wide range of applications is constrained by low-latency requirements that cloud infrastructures cannot meet. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been proposed as the reference architecture for executing applications closer to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Luciano Baresi , Davide Yi Xian Hu , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Luca Terracciano

This paper considers a cloud-RAN architecture with cache-enabled multi-antenna Edge Nodes (ENs) that deliver content to cache-enabled end-users. The ENs are connected to a central server via limited-capacity fronthaul links, and, based on…

This position paper introduces Urgent Edge Computing (UEC) as a paradigm shift addressing the evolving demands of time-sensitive applications in distributed edge environments, in time-critical scenarios. With a focus on ultra-low latency,…

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging communication scheme that aims at reducing latency. In this paper, we investigate a green MEC system under the existence of an eavesdropper. We use computation efficiency, which is defined as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Haijian Sun , Qun Wang , Xiang Ma , Yongjun Xu , Rose Qingyang Hu