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Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising approach to deal with explosive computation requirements by enabling cloud computing capabilities at the edge of networks. Existing models of MEC impose some strong assumptions on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Tao Deng , Zhanwei Yu , Di Yuan

With the growing demand for latency-critical and computation-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) services, the IoT-oriented network architecture, mobile edge computing (MEC), has emerged as a promising technique to reinforce the computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jiechen Chen , Hong Xing , Xiaohui Lin , Arumugam Nallanathan , Suzhi Bi

In Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), Internet of Things (IoT) devices offload computationally-intensive tasks to edge nodes, where they are executed within containers, reducing the reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. Frequent upgrades…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Jiong Lou , Weijia Jia

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 mobile edge computing (MEC) systems, edge service caching refers to pre-storing the necessary programs for executing computation tasks at MEC servers. At resource-constrained edge servers, service caching placement is in general a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Suzhi Bi , Liang Huang , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising approach for enhancing the quality-of-service (QoS) of AI-enabled applications in the B5G/6G era, by bringing computation capability closer to end-users at the network edge. In this work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Huaizhe Liu , Jiaqi Wu , Zhizongkai Wang , Bin Cao , Lin Gao

With the advent of the modern mobile traffic, e.g., online gaming, augmented reality delivery and etc., a novel bidirectional computation task model where the input data of each task consists of two parts, one generated at the mobile device…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yaping Sun , Lyutianyang Zhang , Zhiyong Chen , Sumit Roy

Collaborative edge computing addresses the resource constraints of individual edge nodes by enabling resource sharing and task co-processing across multiple nodes. To fully leverage the advantages of collaborative edge computing, joint…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yang Li , Xing Zhang , Yunji Zhao , Wenbo Wang

The demand for stringent interactive quality-of-service has intensified in both mobile edge computing (MEC) and cloud systems, driven by the imperative to improve user experiences. As a result, the processing of computation-intensive tasks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ngoc Hung Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Anh Tuan Nguyen , Nguyen Van Thieu , Hoang Nam Nguyen , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this paper, the problem of joint user scheduling and computing resource allocation in asynchronous mobile edge computing (MEC) networks is studied. In such networks, edge devices will offload their computational tasks to an MEC server,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Yihan Cang , Ming Chen , Yijin Pan , Zhaohui Yang , Ye Hu , Haijian Sun , Mingzhe Chen

We propose integrating the edge-computing paradigm into the multi-robot collaborative scheduling to maximize resource utilization for complex collaborative tasks, which many robots must perform together. Examples include collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Nazish Tahir , Ramviyas Parasuraman

In this paper, the cooperative jobs dispatching problem in an edge computing network with multiple access points (APs) and edge servers is considered. Due to the uncertain traffic in the network between APs and edge servers, the job…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Bojie Lv , Yuncong Hong , Haisheng Tan , Zhenhua Han , Rui Wang

Lightweight containers provide an efficient approach for deploying computation-intensive applications in network edge. The layered storage structure of container images can further reduce the deployment cost and container startup time.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhiqing Tang , Wentao Peng , Jianxiong Guo , Jiong Lou , Hanshuai Cui , Tian Wang , Yuan Wu , Weijia Jia

The containerized services allocated in the mobile edge clouds bring up the opportunity for large-scale and real-time applications to have low latency responses. Meanwhile, live container migration is introduced to support dynamic resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-18 TianZhang He , Adel N Toosi , Rajkumar Buyya

This paper tackles the growing issue of excessive data transmission in networks. With increasing traffic, backhaul links and core networks are under significant traffic, leading to the investigation of caching solutions at edge routers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Farnaz Niknia , Ping Wang , Zixu Wang , Aakash Agarwal , Adib S. Rezaei

Mobile edge caching (MEC) has been introduced to support ever-growing end-users' needs. To reduce the backhaul traffic demand and content delivery latency, cache-enabled edge servers at base stations (BSs) are employed to provision popular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Susanna Mosleh , Qiang Fan , Lingjia Liu , Jonathan D. Ashdown , Erik Perrins , Kurt Turck

Caching popular files in small base stations (SBSs) has been proved to be an effective way to reduce bandwidth pressure on the backhaul links of dense small cell networks (DSCNs). Many existing studies on cache-enabled DSCNs attempt to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Hao Wu , Hancheng Lu

Edge computing enables latency-critical applications to process data close to end devices, yet task heterogeneity and limited resources pose significant challenges to efficient orchestration. This paper presents a measurement-driven,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yongmin Zhang , Pengyu Huang , Mingyi Dong , Jing Yao

In mobile edge computing, local edge servers can host cloud-based services, which reduces network overhead and latency but requires service migrations as users move to new locations. It is challenging to make migration decisions optimally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shiqiang Wang , Rahul Urgaonkar , Murtaza Zafer , Ting He , Kevin Chan , Kin K. Leung

With files proactively stored at base stations (BSs), mobile edge caching enables direct content delivery without remote file fetching, which can reduce the end-to-end delay while relieving backhaul pressure. To effectively utilize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Shan Zhang , Peter He , Katsuya Suto , Peng Yang , Lian Zhao , Xuemin , Shen