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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 paper addresses the challenge of edge caching in dynamic environments, where rising traffic loads strain backhaul links and core networks. We propose a Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)-based caching strategy that fully incorporates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Farnaz Niknia , Ping Wang

We consider computation offloading for edge computing in a wireless network equipped with intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs). IRS is an emerging technology and has recently received great attention since they can improve the wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Yang Liu , Jun Zhao , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Chau Yuen , Cunhua Pan , Binbin Huang

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as key enablers of next-generation wireless communications, due to their capability of customizing the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we investigate power-efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

The growing demand for intelligent services on resource-constrained edge devices has spurred the development of collaborative inference systems that distribute workloads across end devices, edge servers, and the cloud. While most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Seohyeon Cha , Kevin Chan , Gustavo de Veciana , Haris Vikalo

In this paper, we consider a multi-user mobile-edge computing (MEC) network with time-varying wireless channels and stochastic user task data arrivals in sequential time frames. In particular, we aim to design an online computation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Suzhi Bi , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Massive internet of things microservices require integrating renewable energy harvesting into mobile edge computing (MEC) for sustainable eScience infrastructures. Spatiotemporal mismatches between stochastic task arrivals and intermittent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mubshra Zulfiqar , Muhammad Ayzed Mirza , Basit Qureshi

With the development of next-generation wireless networks, the Internet of Things (IoT) is evolving towards the intelligent IoT (iIoT), where intelligent applications usually have stringent delay and jitter requirements. In order to provide…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Kunlun Wang , Jiong Jin , Yang Yang , Tao Zhang , Arumugam Nallanathan , Chintha Tellambura , Bijan Jabbari

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as the enabling platform for a variety of promising applications, such as smart transportation and smart city, where massive devices are interconnected for data collection and processing. These IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Laha Ale , Ning Zhang , Xiaojie Fang , Xianfu Chen , Shaohua Wu , Longzhuang Li

With the high flexibility of supporting resource-intensive and time-sensitive applications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed as an innovational paradigm to support the mobile users (MUs). As a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Wenshuai Liu , Bin Li , Wancheng Xie , Yueyue Dai , Zesong Fei

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been increasingly used in our everyday lives as well as in numerous industrial applications. However, due to limitations in computing and power capabilities, IoT devices need to send their respective tasks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ziad Qais Al Abbasi , Khaled M. Rabie , Senior Member , Xingwang Li , Senior Member , Wali Ullah Khan , Asma Abu Samah

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the birth of various new IoT devices, the capacity of massive IoT devices is facing challenges. Fortunately, edge computing can optimize problems such as delay and connectivity by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Shihao Shen , Yiwen Han , Xiaofei Wang , Yan Wang

The integration of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) offers new opportunities for smart manufacturing, but it also introduces challenges related to computation-intensive tasks and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xin Wang , Xiao Huan Li , Xun Wang

Delay-sensitive Internet of Things (IoT) applications have drawn significant attention. Running many of these applications on IoT devices is challenging due to the limited processing resources of these devices and the need for real-time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Azadeh Pourkabirian , Amir Masoud Rahmani , Kai Li , Wei Ni

With the emergence of compute-intensive and delay-sensitive applications in vehicular networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising complement for vehicular edge computing due to the high mobility and flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hongbao Li , Ziye Jia , Sijie He , Kun Guo , Qihui Wu

Computation offloading at lower time and lower energy consumption is crucial for resource limited mobile devices. This paper proposes an offloading decision-making model using federated learning. Based on the task type and the user input,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Anwesha Mukherjee , Rajkumar Buyya

In recent years, edge computing, as an important pillar for future networks, has been developed rapidly. Task offloading is a key part of edge computing that can provide computing resources for resource-constrained devices to run…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Liangjun Song , Gang Sun , Hongfang Yu , Mohsen Guizani

With the rapid growth of Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), secure and efficient computation offloading from user equipment (UEs) to edge access points (APs) is critical. However, DISCO intelligent reflective surface-based fully-passive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Minghui Min , Peng Zhang , Jiayang Xiao , Ruixin Yang , Shiyin Li , Huan Huang , Hongliang Zhang , Zhu Han

We consider computation offloading for Internet-of-things (IoT) applications in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) cloud-radio-access-network (C-RAN). Due to the limited battery life and computational capability in the IoT devices…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Chandan Pradhan , Ang Li , Changyang She , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic