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Mobile-edge computing (MEC) emerges as a promising paradigm to improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices. Nevertheless, the design of computation task scheduling policies for MEC systems inevitably encounters a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Juan Liu , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging network paradigm that provides cloud and IT services at the point of access of the network. Such proximity to the end user translates into ultra-low latency and high bandwidth, while, at the same…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Giuseppe Avino , Marco Malinverno , Francesco Malandrino , Claudio Casetti , Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini

Processing computer vision applications (CVA) on mobile devices is challenging due to limited battery life and computing power. While cloud-based remote processing of CVA offers abundant computational resources, it introduces latency issues…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Marcelo V. B. da Silva , Maria Barbosa , Anderson Queiroz , Kelvin L. Dias

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

Task offloading and scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are vital for meeting the low-latency demands of modern IoT and dynamic task scheduling scenarios. MEC reduces the processing burden on resource-constrained devices by enabling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Arild Yonkeu , Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci

The current trend in end-user devices' advancements in computing and communication capabilities makes edge computing an attractive solution to pave the way for the coveted ultra-low latency services. The success of the edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Sam Aleyadeh , Abdallah Moubayed , Abdallah Shami

Experimentation in practical, end-to-end (E2E) next-generation networks deployments is becoming increasingly prevalent and significant in the realm of modern networking and wireless communications research. The prevalence of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Ali Chouman , Dimitrios Michael Manias , Abdallah Shami

The future 5G transport networks are envisioned to support a variety of vertical services through network slicing and efficient orchestration over multiple administrative domains. In this paper, we propose an orchestrator architecture to…

In this work, we propose a cross-layer framework for optimizing user association, packet offloading rates, and bandwidth allocation for Mission-Critical Internet-of-Things (MC-IoT) services with short packets in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Changyang She , Yifan Duan , Guodong Zhao , Tony Q. S. Quek , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Platooning strategy is an important part of autonomous driving technology. Due to the limited resource of autonomous vehicles in platoons, mobile edge computing (MEC) is usually used to assist vehicles in platoons to obtain useful…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qiong Wu , Ziyang Wan , Qiang Fan , Pingyi Fan , Jiangzhou Wang

5G communication brings substantial improvements in the quality of service provided to various applications by achieving higher throughput and lower latency. However, interactive multimedia applications (e.g., ultra high definition video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Muhammad Asif Khan , Emna Baccour , Zina Chkirbene , Aiman Erbad , Ridha Hamila , Mounir Hamdi , Moncef Gabbouj

In 5G networks, slicing allows partitioning of network resources to meet stringent end-to-end service requirements across multiple network segments, from access to transport. These requirements are shaping technical evolution in each of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Nashid Shahriar , Sepehr Taeb , Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury , Mubeen Zulfiqar , Massimo Tornatore , Raouf Boutaba , Jeebak Mitra , Mahdi Hemmati

Drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs]) are expected to be an important component of fifth generation (5G)/beyond 5G (B5G) cellular architectures that can potentially facilitate wireless broadcast or point-to-multipoint transmissions.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Silvia Sekander , Hina Tabassum , Ekram Hossain

With the evolution from 5G to 6G, ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) faces increasingly stringent performance requirements. Lower latency constraints demand shorter channel coding lengths, which can severely degrade decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yaqi Li , Xiaohu You , Jiamin Li , Chen Ji , Bin Sheng

The decoupling of data and control planes, as proposed for 5G networks, will enable the efficient implementation of multitier networks where user equipment (UE) nodes obtain coverage and connectivity through the top-tier macro-cells, and,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Giuseppe Caire , Ratheesh K. Mungara , Haralabos C. Papadopoulos , Chenwei Wang

Digital twins (DTs) are envisioned as a key enabler of the cyber-physical continuum in future wireless networks. However, efficient deployment and synchronization of DTs in dynamic multi-access edge computing (MEC) environments remains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Hossam Farag , Cedomir Stefanovic

Multicast enables efficient one-to-many communications. Several applications benefit from its scalability properties, e.g., live-streaming and large-scale software updates. Historically, multicast applications have used specialized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Louis Navarre , Olivier Pereira , Olivier Bonaventure

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication networks are promising in the fifth and beyond wireless communication systems. In this paper, we shed light on three UAV-enabled mobile edge computing (MEC) architectures. Those…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu , Zan Li , Yuhao Wang

Two-way relaying can significantly improve performance of next generation wireless networks. However, due to its dependence on multi-node cooperation and transmission coordination, applying this technique to a wireless network in an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-27 Wenguang Mao , Xudong Wang

Multipath QUIC is a transport protocol that allows for the use of multiple network interfaces for a single connection. It thereby offers, on the one hand, the possibility to gather a higher throughput, while, on the other hand, multiple…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Mahsa Noroozi , Flavio Gallistl , Majid Noroozi