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As an emerging technique, mobile edge computing (MEC) introduces a new processing scheme for various distributed communication-computing systems such as industrial Internet of Things (IoT), vehicular communication, smart city, etc. In this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zheqi Zhu , Shuo Wan , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

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 this paper, we investigate the scheduling design of a mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where active mobile devices with computation tasks randomly appear in a cell. Every task can be computed at either the mobile device or the MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Shanfeng Huang , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang , Kaibin Huang

Real-time status updating applications increasingly rely on networks of devices and edge nodes to maintain data freshness, as quantified by the age of information (AoI) metric. Given that edge computing nodes exhibit uncertain and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mengqiu Zhou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Meng Zhang

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

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

To overcome devices' limitations in performing computation-intense applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) enables users to offload tasks to proximal MEC servers for faster task computation. However, current MEC system design is based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

Recently, the integration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology has given rise to a new area called mobile edge generation and computing (MEGC), which offers mobile users heterogeneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Yinyu Wu , Xuhui Zhang , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

The freshness or timeliness of data at server is a significant key performance indicator of sensor networks, especially in tolerance critical applications such as factory automation. As an effective and intuitive measurement to data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Zhiyuan Jiang , Yulin hu , Hans D. Schotten

Modern sensing systems generate heterogeneous updates ranging from small status packets to large data objects. We study a single-hop wireless uplink network where sensors generate updates at will, each consisting of a sensor dependent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aniket Mukherjee , Joy Kuri , Chandramani Singh

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered as an efficient method to relieve the computation burden of mobile devices. In order to reduce the energy consumption and time delay of mobile devices (MDs) in MEC, multiple users multiple input and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Changfeng Ding , Jun-Bo Wang , Ming Cheng , Chuanwen Chang , Jin-Yuan Wang , Min Lin

User experience on mobile devices is constrained by limited battery capacity and processing power, but 6G technology advancements are diving rapidly into mobile technical evolution. Mobile edge computing (MEC) offers a solution, offloading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Minh-Tuan Tran

We propose and evaluate age of information (AoI)-aware multiple access mechanisms for the Internet of Things (IoT) in multi-relay two-hop networks. The network considered comprises end devices (EDs) communicating with a set of relays in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Gabriel Martins de Jesus , Felippe Moraes Pereira , João Luiz Rebelatto , Richard Demo Souza , Onel Alcaraz López

To cope with the unprecedented surge in demand for data computing for the applications, the promising concept of multi-access edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the network edges to provide closer data processing for mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Qiqi Ren , Jian Chen , Omid Abbasi , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Halim Yanikomeroglu , F. Richard Yu

There is a surge of need for fresh information with the overwhelming proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. To characterize the information freshness perceived by the destination, the age of information (AoI) has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xijun Wang , Shuying Gan , Yanzhi Huang , Xiaoyu Zhao , Chao Xu , Xiang Chen

The rapid growth of mobile devices and the increasing complexity of tasks have made energy efficiency a critical challenge in Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) systems. This paper explores energy-efficient offloading strategies in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ling Hou , Shi Li , Zhishu Shen , Jing Fu , Jingjin Wu , Jiong Jin

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that mobile devices can offload the computation-intensive or latency-critical tasks to the nearby MEC servers, so as to save energy and extend battery life. Unlike the cloud server, MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Kang Cheng , Yinglei Teng , Weiqi Sun , An Liu , Xianbin Wang

Age of Information (AoI), which measures the time elapsed since the generation of the last received packet at the destination, is a new metric for real-time status update tracking applications. In this paper, we consider a status-update…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

Mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) offloads intensive mobile computation to clouds located at the edges of cellular networks. Thereby, MECO is envisioned as a promising technique for prolonging the battery lives and enhancing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang

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