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In this paper, we investigate mobile edge computing (MEC) networks for intelligent internet of things (IoT), where multiple users have some computational tasks assisted by multiple computational access points (CAPs). By offloading some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Rui Zhao , Xinjie Wang , Junjuan Xia , Liseng Fan

Mobile edge computing (MEC) emerges recently as a promising solution to relieve resource-limited mobile devices from computation-intensive tasks, which enables devices to offload workloads to nearby MEC servers and improve the quality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zhao Chen , Xiaodong Wang

Collaborative edge computing uses edge nodes in different locations to execute tasks, necessitating dynamic task offloading decisions to maintain low latency and high reliability, especially under unpredictable node failures. Although deep…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hao Guo , Kaixiang Xv , Ziwu Ge , Lei Yang

The huge amount of data generated by the Internet of things (IoT) devices needs the computational power and storage capacity provided by cloud, edge, and fog computing paradigms. Each of these computing paradigms has its own pros and cons.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Binayak Kar , Widhi Yahya , Ying-Dar Lin , Asad Ali

This study addresses the challenge of resource scheduling optimization in edge-cloud collaborative computing using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). The proposed DRL-based approach improves task processing efficiency, reduces overall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yuqing Wang , Xiao Yang

The fog radio access network (F-RAN) is a promising technology in which the user mobile devices (MDs) can offload computation tasks to the nearby fog access points (F-APs). Due to the limited resource of F-APs, it is important to design an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Lingling Zhang , Yanxiang Jiang , Fu-Chun Zheng , Mehdi Bennis , Xiaohu You

The Internet of Things (IoT) establishes connectivity between billions of heterogeneous devices that provide a variety of essential everyday services. The IoT faces several challenges, including energy efficiency and scalability, that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mohamed Ali Zormati , Hicham Lakhlef , Sofiane Ouni

Task offloading is a widely used technology in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which declines the completion time of user task with the help of resourceful edge servers. Existing works mainly focus on the case that the computation density of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Zequn Cao , Xiaoheng Deng

With the rapid development of the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), mobile edge computing (MEC) becomes an essential technology underpinning AIoT applications. However, multi-angle resource constraints, multi-user task competition,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Weixi Li , Rongzuo Guo , Yuning Wang , Fangying Chen

The surge in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and data generation highlights the limitations of traditional cloud computing in meeting demands for immediacy, Quality of Service, and location-aware services. Fog computing emerges as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Amir Pakmehr

Edge computing has been an efficient way to provide prompt and near-data computing services for resource-and-delay sensitive IoT applications via computation offloading. Effective computation offloading strategies need to comprehensively…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Sheng Yue , Ju Ren , Nan Qiao , Yongmin Zhang , Hongbo Jiang , Yaoxue Zhang , Yuanyuan Yang

For current and future Internet of Things (IoT) networks, mobile edge-cloud computation offloading (MECCO) has been regarded as a promising means to support delay-sensitive IoT applications. However, offloading mobile tasks to the cloud is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-23 Dinh C. Nguyen , Pubudu N. Pathirana , Ming Ding , Aruna Seneviratne

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

In this paper, we consider a mobile-edge computing system, where an access point assists a mobile device (MD) to execute an application consisting of multiple tasks following a general task call graph. The objective is to jointly determine…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

An increasing number of mobile applications rely on Machine Learning (ML) routines for analyzing data. Executing such tasks at the user devices saves the energy spent on transmitting and processing large data volumes at distant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Apostolos Galanopoulos , George Iosifidis , Theodoros Salonidis , Douglas J. Leith

In this paper, we propose a federated deep reinforcement learning framework to solve a multi-objective optimization problem, where we consider minimizing the expected long-term task completion delay and energy consumption of IoT devices.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Sheyda Zarandi , Hina Tabassum

Fog/Edge computing is a novel computing paradigm supporting resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices by the placement of their tasks on the edge and/or cloud servers. Recently, several Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mohammad Goudarzi , Marimuthu Palaniswami , Rajkumar Buyya

Resource-constrained IoT devices, such as sensors and actuators, have become ubiquitous in recent years. This has led to the generation of large quantities of data in real-time, which is an appealing target for AI systems. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 M. G. Sarwar Murshed , Christopher Murphy , Daqing Hou , Nazar Khan , Ganesh Ananthanarayanan , Faraz Hussain

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

Owing to the resource-constrained feature of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, offloading tasks from IoT devices to the nearby mobile edge computing (MEC) servers can not only save the energy of IoT devices but also reduce the response time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zeinab Akhavan , Mona Esmaeili , Babak Badnava , Mohammad Yousefi , Xiang Sun , Michael Devetsikiotis , Payman Zarkesh-Ha