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Recent trends in communication networks have focused on Quality of Service (QoS) requirements expressed through timing metrics such as latency or Age of Information (AoI). A possible way to achieve this is coded multipath communication:…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Federico Chiariotti , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

Multi-Access edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm where users offload computationally intensive jobs to the Access Point (AP). Given that the AP's resources are shared by selfish users, pricing is a useful tool for incentivising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Lingxiang Li , Marie Siew , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhi Chen

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

Wireless powered mobile edge computing has been envisioned as a promising paradigm to enhance the computation capability of low-power wireless devices in Industrial Internet of Things. An efficient resource scheduling method is critical yet…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Hao Wu , Hui Tian , Shaoshuai Fan , Jiazhi Ren

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology for enhancing the computation capacities and features of mobile users by offloading complex computation tasks to the edge servers. However, mobility poses great challenges on delivering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zezu Liang , Yuan Liu , Tat-Ming Lok , Kaibin Huang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged for reducing energy consumption and latency by allowing mobile users to offload computationally intensive tasks to the MEC server. Due to the spectrum reuse in small cell network, the inter-cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Jianen Yan , Ning Li , Zhaoxin Zhang , Alex X. Liu , Jose Fernan Martinez , Xin Yuan

In this paper, we consider the cellular Internet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), where UAVs sense data for multiple tasks and transmit the data to the base station (BS). To quantify the "freshness" of the data at the BS, we bring in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Next-generation mobile networks are expected to facilitate fast AI model downloading to end users. By caching models on edge servers, mobile networks can deliver models to end users with low latency, resulting in a paradigm called edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Guanqiao Qu , Zheng Lin , Fangming Liu , Xianhao Chen , Kaibin Huang

We study a two-sided market, wherein, price-sensitive heterogeneous customers and servers arrive and join their respective queues. A compatible customer-server pair can then be matched by the platform, at which point, they leave the system.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Zixian Yang , Sushil Mahavir Varma , Lei Ying

The integration of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) and Wireless Power Transfer (WPT), which is usually referred to as Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing (WP-MEC), has been recognized as a promising technique to enhance the lifetime and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Xingqiu He , Yuhang Shen , Xiong Wang , Sheng Wang , Shizhong Xu , Jing Ren

In device-to-device (D2D)-enabled caching cellular networks, the user terminals (UTs) collaboratively store and share a large volume of popular contents from the base station (BS) for traffic offloading and delivery delay reduction. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Tiankui Zhang , Xinyuan Fang , Yuanwei Liu , Geoffrey Ye Li , Wenjun Xu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising approach to deal with explosive computation requirements by enabling cloud computing capabilities at the edge of networks. Existing models of MEC impose some strong assumptions on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Tao Deng , Zhanwei Yu , Di Yuan

By offloading intensive computation tasks to the edge cloud located at the cellular base stations, mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) has been regarded as a promising means to accomplish the ambitious millisecond-scale end-to-end…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Jinke Ren , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai , Yinghui He

This paper characterizes the fundamental trade-off between throughput and Age of Information (AoI) in wireless networks where multiple devices transmit status updates to a central base station over unreliable channels. To address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Lin Wang , I-Hong Hou

In compute-first networking, maintaining fresh and accurate status information at the network edge is crucial for effective access to remote services. This process typically involves three phases: Status updating, user accessing, and user…

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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

An emerging trend of next generation communication systems is to provide network edges with additional capabilities such as storage resources in the form of caches to reduce file delivery latency. To investigate this aspect, we study the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Jaber Kakar , Alaa Alameer , Anas Chaaban , Aydin Sezgin , Arogyaswami Paulraj

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a new computing paradigm that enables cloud computing and information technology (IT) services to be delivered at the network's edge. By shifting the load of cloud computing to individual local servers, MEC…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Cheng Wang , Zenghui Yuan , Pan Zhou , Zichuan Xu , Ruixuan Li , Dapeng Oliver Wu

Age of Information (AoI) is a critical metric for several Internet of Things (IoT) applications, where sensors keep track of the environment by sending updates that need to be as fresh as possible. The development of edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Federico Chiariotti , Olga Vikhrova , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

As software may be used by multiple users, caching popular software at the wireless edge has been considered to save computation and communications resources for mobile edge computing (MEC). However, fetching uncached software from the core…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Wanli Wen , Ying Cui , Tony Q. S. Quek , Fu-Chun Zheng , Shi Jin