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Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper studies a wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system with device-to-device (D2D)-enabled task offloading. In this system, a set of distributed multi-antenna energy transmitters (ETs) use collaborative energy beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Dixiao Wu , Feng Wang , Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu

To realize cooperative computation and communication in a relay mobile edge computing system, we develop a hybrid relay forward protocol, where we seek to balance the execution delay and network energy consumption. The problem is formulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Xihan Chen , Qingjiang Shi , Yunlong Cai , Minjian Zhao , Mingjie Zhao

Edge computing (EC) is a promising paradigm providing a distributed computing solution for users at the edge of the network. Preserving satisfactory quality of experience (QoE) for users when offloading their computation to EC is a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Weibin Ma , Lena Mashayekhy

In this paper, we investigate and analyze full-duplex-based backscatter communications with multiple backscatter devices (BDs). Different from previous works where only the energy from the energy source is harvested, BDs are also allowed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Gu Bowen , Li Dong , Xu Yongjun , Li Chunguo , Sun Sumei

This paper studies a multi-user cooperative mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, in which a local mobile user can offload intensive computation tasks to multiple nearby edge devices serving as helpers for remote execution. We focus on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-21 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Jie Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper investigates an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based mobile-edge computing (MEC) network. Our objective is to minimize the total energy consumption of all users including transmission energy and local computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-18 Zhaohui Yang , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

This paper studies a wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system with fluctuating channels and dynamic task arrivals over time. We jointly optimize the transmission energy allocation at the energy transmitter (ET) for WPT and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Shuguang Cui

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

This letter considers a multi-access mobile edge computing (MEC) network consisting of multiple users, multiple base stations, and a malicious eavesdropper. Specifically, the users adopt the partial offloading strategy by partitioning the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mingxiong Zhao , Huiqi Bao , Li Yin , Jianping Yao , Tony Q. S. Quek

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a prominent technology to liberate mobile devices from computationally intensive workloads, by offloading them to the proximate MEC server. To make offloading effective, the radio and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

In the evolving landscape of mobile edge computing (MEC), enhancing communication reliability and computation efficiency to support increasingly stringent low-latency services remains a fundamental challenge. Rotatable antenna (RA) is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qiyao Wang , Beixiong Zheng , Xue Xiong , Weidong Mei , Changsheng You , Qingqing Wu , Jie Tang

We consider a mobile edge computing problem, in which mobile users offload their computation tasks to computing nodes (e.g., base stations) at the network edge. The edge nodes compute the requested functions and communicate the computed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Collaborative edge computing (CEC) is an emerging paradigm where heterogeneous edge devices (stakeholders) collaborate to fulfill computation tasks, such as model training or video processing, by sharing communication and computation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jinkun Zhang , Yuezhou Liu , Edmund Yeh

In this paper, we consider a multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) network powered by wireless power transfer (WPT), where each energy-harvesting WD follows a binary computation offloading policy, i.e., data set of a task has to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

This paper considers an energy harvesting (EH) based multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where each user utilizes the harvested energy from renewable energy sources to execute its computation tasks via computation offloading and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Zhifei Lin , Feng Wang , Licheng Liu

The rapid growth of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices demands communication systems that are both spectrally efficient and energy frugal. Backscatter communication (BackCom) is an attractive low-power paradigm, but its spectral efficiency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hajar El Hassani , Mikael Gidlund

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

Mobile edge caching (MEC) has received much attention as a promising technique to overcome the stringent latency and data hungry requirements in the future generation wireless networks. Meanwhile, full-duplex (FD) transmission can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Anh Vu Trinh

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