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Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is one of the enabling technologies for high-performance computing at the edge of the 6 G networks, supporting high data rates and ultra-low service latency. Although MEC is a remedy to meet the growing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ummy Habiba , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to enable real-time information transmission and computing by offloading computation tasks from wireless devices to network edge.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Mengyu Liu , Yuan Liu

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

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) emerges as an essential part of the upcoming Fifth Generation (5G) and future beyond-5G mobile communication systems. It adds computational power towards the edge of cellular networks, much closer to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bin Han , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Yihua Xu , Di Feng , Hans D. Schotten

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enhances the performance of 5G networks by enabling low-latency, high-speed services through deploying data units of the base station on edge servers located near mobile users. However, determining the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yunyi Wu , Yongbing Zhang

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) promises to enable latency-critical applications by bringing computational power closer to mobile devices, but our measurements on commercial MEC deployments reveal frequent SLO violations due to high tail…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiao Zhang , Daehyeok Kim

Ubiquity in network coverage is one of the main features of 5G and is expected to be extended to the computing domain in 6G. In order to provide this holistic approach of ubiquity in communication and computation, an integration of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jörg von Mankowski , Emre Durmaz , Arled Papa , Hansini Vijayaraghavan , Wolfgang Kellerer

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that pushes resources for sensing, communications, computing, storage and intelligence (SCCSI) to the premises closer to the end users, i.e., the edge, so that they could leverage…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Guangyu Zhu , Yuguang Fang , Zhigang Chen , Xiaoheng Deng

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm to accommodate the increasingly prosperous delay-sensitive and computation-intensive applications in 5G systems. To achieve optimum computation performance in a dynamic MEC environment,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xian Li , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

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

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) delivers low-latency services by hosting applications near end-users. To promote sustainability, these systems are increasingly integrated with renewable Energy Harvesting (EH) technologies, enabling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuyi Chen , Panagiotis Oikonomou , Zhengchang Hua , Nikos Tziritas , Karim Djemame , Nan Zhang , Georgios Theodoropoulos

Network virtualization and SDN-based routing allow carriers to flexibly configure their networks in response to demand and unexpected network disruptions. However, cellular networks, by nature, pose some unique challenges because of user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Russell Ford , Ashwin Sridharan , Robert Margolies , Rittwik Jana , Sundeep Rangan

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

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…

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Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a 5G-enabling solution that aims to bring cloud-computing capabilities closer to the end-users. This paper focuses on mitigation techniques against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Marian Gusatu , Ruxandra F. Olimid

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a type of network architecture that provides cloud computing capabilities at the edge of the network. We consider the use case of video surveillance for an university campus running on a 5G-MEC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ricardo N. Boing , Hugo Vaz Sampaio , Fernando Koch , Rene N. S. Cruz , Carlos B. Westphall

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

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

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

This paper presents the concept, architectural design, and performance evaluation of a 5G Mobile Cell (MC) used to provide 5G wireless connectivity to User Equipment (UE) in areas with limited fixed 5G infrastructures or subject to adverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-08 José Ruela , Ivan Cojocaru , André Coelho , Rui Campos , Manuel Ricardo