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Dubbed "the successor to the mobile Internet", the concept of the Metaverse has recently exploded in popularity. While there exists lite versions of the Metaverse today, we are still far from realizing the vision of a seamless, shardless,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Xianbin Cao , Chunyan Miao , Sumei Sun , Qiang Yang

The concept of the Metaverse aims to bring a fully-fledged extended reality environment to provide next generation applications and services. Development of the Metaverse is backed by many technologies, including, 5G, artificial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Bartlomiej Siniarski , Chamitha De Alwis , Gokul Yenduri , Thien Huynh-The , GÜrkan GÜr , Thippa Reddy Gadekallu , Madhusanka Liyanage

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is commonly recognized as a key supporting technology for the emerging 5G systems. When deployed in fully virtualized networks, i.e., following the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, it will…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Miltiades C. Filippou , Dario Sabella , Vincenzo Riccobene

Augmented reality (AR) has drawn great attention in recent years. However, current AR devices have drawbacks, e.g., weak computation ability and large power consumption. To solve the problem, mobile edge computing (MEC) can be introduced as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Yue Wang , Tao Yu , Kei Sakaguchi

Nowadays, we are witnessing the advent of the Internet of Things (EC) with numerous devices performing interactions between them or with end users. The huge number of devices leads to huge volumes of collected data that demand the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Panagiotis Oikonomou , Anna Karanika , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Kostas Kolomvatsos

The Metaverse is a virtual environment where users are represented by avatars to navigate a virtual world, which has strong links with the physical one. State-of-the-art Metaverse architectures rely on a cloud-based approach for avatar…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Sahraoui Dhelim , Tahar Kechadi , Liming Chen , Nyothiri Aung , Huansheng Ning , Luigi Atzori

In order to mitigate the long processing delay and high energy consumption of mobile augmented reality (AR) applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) has been recently proposed and is envisioned as a promising means to deliver better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Jinke Ren , Yinghui He , Guan Huang , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai , Zhaoyang Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is expected to be an effective solution to deliver 360-degree virtual reality (VR) videos over wireless networks. In contrast to previous computation-constrained MEC framework, which reduces the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Xiao Yang , Zhiyong Chen , Kuikui Li , Yaping Sun , Hongming Zheng

The mobile edge computing (MEC) has been introduced for providing computing capabilities at the edge of networks to improve the latency performance of wireless networks. In this paper, we provide the novel framework for MEC-enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Chanwon Park , Jemin Lee

The concept of the Metaverse has garnered growing interest from both academic and industry circles. The decentralization of both the integrity and security of digital items has spurred the popularity of play-to-earn (P2E) games, where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Chang Liu , Terence Jie Chua , Jun Zhao

By pushing computation, cache, and network control to the edge, mobile edge computing (MEC) is expected to play a leading role in fifth generation (5G) and future sixth generation (6G). Nevertheless, facing ubiquitous fast-growing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Zhen Qin , Hai Wang , Yuben Qu , Haipeng Dai , Zhenhua Wei

The concept of multi-access edge computing (MEC) has been recently introduced to supplement cloud computing by deploying MEC servers to the network edge so as to reduce the network delay and alleviate the load on cloud data centers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Anselme Ndikumana , Nguyen H. Tran , Tai Manh Ho , Zhu Han , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , Choong Seon Hong

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

Future mobile networks supporting Internet of Things are expected to provide both high throughput and low latency to user-specific services. One way to overcome this challenge is to adopt network function virtualization and Multi-access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Qi Liao , Manuel Stein , Nikolaos Pappas

Virtual reality (VR) over wireless is emerging as an important use case of 5G networks. Immersive VR experience requires the delivery of huge data at ultra-low latency, thus demanding ultra-high transmission rate. This challenge can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Hui Liu

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is an essential technology for the fifth generation (5G) of mobile networks. MEC enables low-latency services by bringing computing resources close to the end-users. The integration of 5G and MEC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Thilina Pathirana , Gianfranco Nencioni , Ruxandra F. Olimid

Mobile edge clouds (MECs) bring the benefits of the cloud closer to the user, by installing small cloud infrastructures at the network edge. This enables a new breed of real-time applications, such as instantaneous object recognition and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Andrew Machen , Shiqiang Wang , Kin K. Leung , Bong Jun Ko , Theodoros Salonidis

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered a novel paradigm for computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks in fifth generation (5G) networks and beyond. However, its uncertainty, referred to as dynamic and randomness, from the mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Peng Wei , Kun Guo , Ye Li , Jue Wang , Wei Feng , Shi Jin , Ning Ge , Ying-Chang Liang

Edge computing is an emerging concept based on distributing computing, storage, and control services closer to end network nodes. Edge computing lies at the heart of the fifth generation (5G) wireless systems and beyond. While current…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Mohammed S. Elbamby , Cristina Perfecto , Chen-Feng Liu , Jihong Park , Sumudu Samarakoon , Xianfu Chen , Mehdi Bennis

Driven by great demands on low-latency services of the edge devices (EDs), mobile edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the computing capacities at the edge of the radio access network. However, conventional MEC servers suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Pengfei Wang , Zijie Zheng , Boya Di , Lingyang Song