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Metaverse and Digital Twin (DT) have attracted much academic and industrial attraction to approach the future digital world. This paper introduces the advantages of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in assisting Metaverse system-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Tam Ninh Thi-Thanh , Trinh Van Chien , Hung Tran , Nguyen Hoai Son , Van Nhan Vo

Fog and Edge computing extend cloud services to the proximity of end users, allowing many Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, particularly latency-critical applications. Smart devices, such as traffic and surveillance cameras, often do not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mohammad Goudarzi , Maria A. Rodriguez , Majid Sarvi , Rajkumar Buyya

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is one of the promising solutions to process computational-intensive tasks for the emerging time-critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) use cases, e.g., virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), autonomous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Jianhui Liu , Qi Zhang

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

Soft real-time applications are becoming increasingly complex, posing significant challenges for scheduling offloaded tasks in edge computing environments while meeting task timing constraints. Moreover, the exponential growth of the search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Amin Avan , Akramul Azim , Qusay Mahmoud

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 the field of multi-access edge computing (MEC), efficient computation offloading is crucial for improving resource utilization and reducing latency in dynamically changing environments. This paper introduces a new approach, termed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Runxin Han , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chau Yuen

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

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) enables latency-sensitive vehicular applications by offloading computation-intensive tasks to nearby edge servers. However, real-world vehicular workloads are typically modeled as heterogeneous directed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yaorong Huang , Jingtao Luo , Xuechao Wang

Cloud computing is a reliable solution to provide distributed computation power. However, real-time response is still challenging regarding the enormous amount of data generated by the IoT devices in 5G and 6G networks. Thus, multi-access…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Anahita Mazloomi , Hani Sami , Jamal Bentahar , Hadi Otrok , Azzam Mourad

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) techniques have been successfully applied for solving complex decision-making and control tasks in multiple fields including robotics, autonomous driving, healthcare and natural language processing. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Amanda Jayanetti , Saman Halgamuge , Rajkumar Buyya

The empowering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively used in providing intelligence such as target tracking. In our field experiments, a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) is deployed at the UAV to identify a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Chau Yuen , Lijun Qian

The imminent rise of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is revolutionizing the future of transport. The Vehicular Fog Computing (VFC) paradigm has emerged to alleviate the load of compute-intensive and delay-sensitive AV programs via task offloading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mohammad Parsa Toopchinezhad , Mahmood Ahmadi

While mobile edge computing (MEC) alleviates the computation and power limitations of mobile devices, additional latency is incurred when offloading tasks to remote MEC servers. In this work, the power-delay tradeoff in the context of task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , H. Vincent Poor

Computation offloading and resource allocation are critical in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to handle the massive and complex requirements of applications restricted by limited resources. In a multi-user multi-server MEC network, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Tianyi Shi , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Rong Huang , Yapeng Wang

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

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

Graph analytics powers modern intelligent systems such as smart cities, cyber-physical infrastructure, IoT security, and large-scale social networks. As these workloads scale in complexity, their execution in heterogeneous edge-cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 P. Ramicetty , H. Moore , S. Qi , A. Islam , M. Ghose , D. Milojicic , C. Bash , S. Pasricha

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a cost-effective paradigm to enhance the computing capability of hardware-constrained wireless devices (WDs). In this paper, we first consider a two-user MEC network, where each WD has a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Meixia Tao

With the rapid development of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), various real-time applications have been deployed to benefit people's daily lives. The performance of these applications relies heavily on the freshness of collected environmental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Xingqiu He , Chaoqun You , Tony Q. S. Quek