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We present a framework for performance optimization in serverless edge-cloud platforms using dynamic task placement. We focus on applications for smart edge devices, for example, smart cameras or speakers, that need to perform processing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Anirban Das , Shigeru Imai , Mike P. Wittie , Stacy Patterson

We consider a network of smart sensors for an edge computing application that sample a time-varying signal and send updates to a base station for remote global monitoring. Sensors are equipped with sensing and compute, and can either send…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Luca Ballotta , Giovanni Peserico , Francesco Zanini , Paolo Dini

The Fifth Generation (5G) of mobile networks offers new and advanced services with stricter requirements. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a key technology that enables these new services by deploying multiple devices with computing and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Gianfranco Nencioni , Rosario G. Garroppo , Ruxandra F. Olimid

Edge computing is promoted to meet increasing performance needs of data-driven services using computational and storage resources close to the end devices, at the edge of the current network. To achieve higher performance in this new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Klervie Toczé , Simin Nadjm-Tehrani

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

The needs of emerging applications, such as augmented and virtual reality, federated machine learning, and autonomous driving, have motivated edge computing--the push of computation capabilities to the edge. Various edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Reza Tourani , Srikathyayani Srikanteswara , Satyajayant Misra , Richard Chow , Lily Yang , Xiruo Liu , Yi Zhang

As the explosive growth of smart devices and the advent of many new applications, traffic volume has been growing exponentially. The traditional centralized network architecture cannot accommodate such user demands due to heavy burden on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Shuo Wang , Xing Zhang , Yan Zhang , Lin Wang , Juwo Yang , Wenbo Wang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging network paradigm that provides cloud and IT services at the point of access of the network. Such proximity to the end user translates into ultra-low latency and high bandwidth, while, at the same…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Giuseppe Avino , Marco Malinverno , Francesco Malandrino , Claudio Casetti , Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini

As we are moving towards the Internet of Things (IoT) era, the number of connected physical devices is increasing at a rapid pace. Mobile edge computing is emerging to handle the sheer volume of produced data and reach the latency demand of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Jianbing Ni , Xiaodong Lin , Xuemin , Shen

With the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the wide penetration of wireless networks, the surging demand for data communications and computing calls for the emerging edge computing paradigm. By moving the services and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Quyuan Luo , Shihong Hu , Changle Li , Guanghui Li , Weisong Shi

Edge-cloud collaborative computing (ECCC) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for addressing the computational demands of modern intelligent applications, integrating cloud resources with edge devices to enable efficient, low-latency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jing Liu , Yao Du , Kun Yang , Jiaqi Wu , Yan Wang , Xiping Hu , Zehua Wang , Yang Liu , Peng Sun , Azzedine Boukerche , Victor C. M. Leung

The concept of multi-access edge computing (MEC) has been recently introduced to supplement cloud computing by deploying MEC servers to the network edge so as to reduce the network delay and alleviate the load on cloud data centers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Anselme Ndikumana , Nguyen H. Tran , Tai Manh Ho , Zhu Han , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , Choong Seon Hong

In the future, computing will be immersed in the world around us -- from augmented reality to autonomous vehicles to the Internet of Things. Many of these smart devices will offer services that respond in real time to their physical…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Yuxin Ren , Vlad Nitu , Guyue Liu , Gabriel Parmer , Timothy Wood , Alain Tchana , Riley Kennedy

Edge computing has emerged as a distributed computing paradigm to overcome practical scalability limits of cloud computing. The main principle of edge computing is to leverage on computational resources outside of the cloud for performing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-07 João Leitão , Pedro Ákos Costa , Maria Cecília Gomes , Nuno Preguiça

Owing to the large volume of sensed data from the enormous number of IoT devices in operation today, centralized machine learning algorithms operating on such data incur an unbearable training time, and thus cannot satisfy the requirements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Shashank Jere , Qiang Fan , Bodong Shang , Lianjun Li , Lingjia Liu

Future mobile networks supporting Internet of Things are expected to provide both high throughput and low latency to user-specific services. One way to overcome this challenge is to adopt network function virtualization and Multi-access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Qi Liao , Manuel Stein , Nikolaos Pappas

Improving efficiency of healthcare systems is a top national interest worldwide. However, the need of delivering scalable healthcare services to the patients while reducing costs is a challenging issue. Among the most promising approaches…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Amr Mohamed , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Mounira Tlili , Aiman Erbad

The current trend in end-user devices' advancements in computing and communication capabilities makes edge computing an attractive solution to pave the way for the coveted ultra-low latency services. The success of the edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Sam Aleyadeh , Abdallah Moubayed , Abdallah Shami

By pushing computation, cache, and network control to the edge, mobile edge computing (MEC) is expected to play a leading role in fifth generation (5G) and future sixth generation (6G). Nevertheless, facing ubiquitous fast-growing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Zhen Qin , Hai Wang , Yuben Qu , Haipeng Dai , Zhenhua Wei

Facing a vast amount of connections, huge performance demands, and the need for reliable connectivity, the sixth generation of communication networks (6G) is envisioned to implement disruptive technologies that jointly spur connectivity,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Robert-Jeron Reifert , Hayssam Dahrouj , Basem Shihada , Aydin Sezgin , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini