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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a new paradigm that provides cloud computing services at the edge of networks. To achieve better performance with limited computing resources, peer offloading between cooperative edge servers (e.g. MEC-…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Xingqiu He , Sheng Wang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) pushes computing resources to the edge of the network and distributes them at the edge of the mobile network. Offloading computing tasks to the edge instead of the cloud can reduce computing latency and backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Run Yang , Hui He , Weizhe Zhang

Improving efficiency of healthcare systems is a top national interest worldwide. However, the need of delivering scalable healthcare services to the patients while reducing costs is a challenging issue. Among the most promising approaches…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Amr Mohamed , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Mounira Tlili , Aiman Erbad

Accommodating digital twins (DTs) in the metaverse is essential to achieving digital reality. This need for integrating DTs into the metaverse while operating them at the network edge has increased the demand for a decentralized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Omar Hashash , Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu

Network softwarization triggered a new wave of innovation in modern network design. The next generation of mobile networks embraces this trend. Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is a key part of emerging mobile networks that enables ultra-low…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ashkan Aghdai , Yang Xu , Mark Huang , David H. Dai , H. Jonathan Chao

As a key technology in the 5G era, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has developed rapidly in recent years. MEC aims to reduce the service delay of mobile users, while alleviating the processing pressure on the core network. MEC can be regarded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Minxian Xu , Qiheng Zhou , Huaming Wu , Weiwei Lin , Kejiang Ye , Chengzhong Xu

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) will enable context-aware services for users of mobile 4G/5G networks. MEC application developers need tools to aid the design and the performance evaluation of their apps. During the early stages of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Alessandro Noferi , Giovanni Nardini , Giovanni Stea , Antonio Virdis

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising approach for enabling cloud-computing capabilities at the edge of cellular networks. Nonetheless, security is becoming an increasingly important issue in MEC-based applications. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Yuanfang Chen , Yan Zhang , Sabita Maharjan

This article provides an overview of mobile edge computing (MEC) and artificial intelligence (AI) and discusses the mutually-beneficial relationship between them. AI provides revolutionary solutions in nearly every important aspect of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Ahmed A. Al-habob , Octavia A. Dobre

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is being considered as an enabling technology for sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. The key idea of RIS-assisted communication is to enhance the capacity, coverage,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Mithun Mukherjee , Vikas Kumar , Mian Guo , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Ertugrul Basar , Zhiguo Ding

Two enablers of the 5th Generation (5G) of mobile communication systems are the high data rates achievable with millimeter-wave radio signals and the cloudification of the network's mobile edge, made possible also by Multi-access Edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Nicola di Pietro , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

The metaverse has awakened users' expectations of an immersive interaction that fuses the virtual digital world and the physical world across space and time. However, the metaverse is still in its infancy, typically expanding multi-player…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yakun Huang , Xiuquan Qiao , Haowen Wang , Xiang Su , Schahram Dustdar , Ping Zhang

Network slicing is one of the most critical 5G pillars. It allows for sharing a 5G infrastructure among different tenants leading to improved service customisation and increased operators' revenues. Concurrently, introducing the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Simone Bolettieri , Dinh Thai Bui , Raffaele Bruno

Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is a key enabling technology for Fifth Generation (5G) mobile networks. MEC facilitates distributed cloud computing capabilities and information technology service environment for applications and services…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Jude Okwuibe , Juuso Haavisto , Erkki Harjula , Ijaz Ahmad , Mika Ylianttila

The proliferation of innovative mobile services such as augmented reality, networked gaming, and autonomous driving has spurred a growing need for low-latency access to computing resources that cannot be met solely by existing centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Konstantinos Poularakis , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Ian Taylor , Leandros Tassiulas

Owing to the large volume of sensed data from the enormous number of IoT devices in operation today, centralized machine learning algorithms operating on such data incur an unbearable training time, and thus cannot satisfy the requirements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Shashank Jere , Qiang Fan , Bodong Shang , Lianjun Li , Lingjia Liu

This article introduces a comprehensive metaverse framework, which is designed for the simulation, emulation, and interaction with wireless systems. The proposed framework integrates core metaverse technologies such as extended reality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ilias Chrysovergis , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Dusit Niyato

Edge Computing is a promising technology to provide new capabilities in technological fields that require instantaneous data processing. Researchers in areas such as machine and deep learning use extensively edge and cloud computing for…

All the content consumed by mobile users, be it a web page or a live stream, undergoes some processing along the way; as an example, web pages and videos are transcoded to fit each device's screen. The recent multi-access edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Francesco Malandrino , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Giuseppe Avino , Marco Malinverno , Scott Kirkpatrick

Driven by the visions of Internet of Things (IoT), there is an ever-increasing demand for computation resources of IoT users to support diverse applications. Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been deemed a promising solution to settle the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Zhengyu Song , Xintong Qin , Yuanyuan Hao , Tianwei Hou , Jun Wang , Xin Sun