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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) broadens the scope of computation and storage beyond the central network, incorporating edge nodes close to end devices. This expansion facilitates the implementation of large-scale "connected things" within edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ning Yang , Shuo Chen , Haijun Zhang , Randall Berry

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables low-latency applications by bringing computation closer to the user, but dynamic task arrivals and communication threats like jamming complicate reliable task offloading and resource allocation. In this…

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

In recent years, multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a key enabler for handling the massive expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) applications and services. However, energy consumption of a MEC network depends on volatile tasks that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-07 Md. Shirajum Munir , Sarder Fakhrul Abedin , Nguyen H. Tran , Zhu Han , Eui-Nam Huh , Choong Seon Hong

Nowadays, model-free reinforcement learning algorithms have achieved remarkable performance on many decision making and control tasks, but high sample complexity and low sample efficiency still hinder the wide use of model-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jingbin Liu , Xinyang Gu , Shuai Liu

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

Edge caching plays an increasingly important role in boosting user content retrieval performance while reducing redundant network traffic. The effectiveness of caching ultimately hinges on the accuracy of predicting content popularity in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Chen Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Tongyu Zong , Houwei Cao , Yong Liu

Exploiting quantum computing at the mobile edge holds immense potential for facilitating large-scale network design, processing multimodal data, optimizing resource management, and enhancing network security. In this paper, we propose a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Mingzhe Chen , Dong In Kim , Xuemin , Shen

In mobile edge computing systems, base stations (BSs) equipped with edge servers can provide computing services to users to reduce their task execution time. However, there is always a conflict of interest between the BS and users. The BS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yiming Chen , Xingyuan Hu , Bo Gu , Shimin Gong , Zhou Su

A deep reinforcement learning approach is applied, for the first time, to solve the routing, modulation, spectrum and core allocation (RMSCA) problem in dynamic multicore fiber elastic optical networks (MCF-EONs). To do so, a new…

This paper presents a cooperative multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) approach for unmmaned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. An UAV with computing capability can provide task offlaoding services…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Mintae Kim , Hoon Lee , Sangwon Hwang , Merouane Debbah , Inkyu Lee

In the traditional cellular-based mobile edge computing (MEC), users at the edge of the cell are prone to suffer severe inter-cell interference and signal attenuation, leading to low throughput even transmission interruptions. Such edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Langtian Qin , Hancheng Lu , Yuang Chen , Baolin Chong , Feng Wu

Collaborative Edge Computing (CEC) is an effective method that improves the performance of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems by offloading computation tasks from busy edge servers (ESs) to idle ones. However, ESs usually belong to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xingqiu He , Yuhang Shen , Hongxi Zhu , Sheng Wang , Chaoqun You , Tony Q. S. Quek

In edge computing systems, autonomous agents must make fast local decisions while competing for shared resources. Existing MARL methods often resume to centralized critics or frequent communication, which fail under limited observability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Andrea Fox , Francesco De Pellegrini , Eitan Altman

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables the provision of high-reliability and low-latency applications by offering computation and storage resources in close proximity to end-users. Different from traditional computation task offloading in MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Rong Huang

Highly automated assembly lines enable significant productivity gains in the manufacturing industry, particularly in mass production condition. Nonetheless, challenges persist in job scheduling for make-to-job and mass customization,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Lele Li , Liyong Lin

Ultra-dense edge computing (UDEC) has great potential, especially in the 5G era, but it still faces challenges in its current solutions, such as the lack of: i) efficient utilization of multiple 5G resources (e.g., computation,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Shuai Yu , Xu Chen , Zhi Zhou , Xiaowen Gong , Di Wu

In this paper, we jointly consider communication, caching and computation in a multi-user cache-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system, consisting of one base station (BS) of caching and computing capabilities and multiple users with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Ying Cui , Wen He , Chun Ni , Chengjun Guo , Zhi Liu

Robust Reinforcement Learning aims to derive optimal behavior that accounts for model uncertainty in dynamical systems. However, previous studies have shown that by considering the worst case scenario, robust policies can be overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Esther Derman , Daniel J. Mankowitz , Timothy A. Mann , Shie Mannor

Congestion Control (CC), as the core networking task to efficiently utilize network capacity, received great attention and widely used in various Internet communication applications such as 5G, Internet-of-Things, UAN, and more. Various CC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jianing Bai , Tianhao Zhang , Guangming Xie

This letter investigates a cache-enabled multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system with dynamic task arrivals, taking into account the impact of proactive cache placement on the system's overall energy consumption. We consider that an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jingxuan Liang , Hong Xing , Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau