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In recent studies, researchers have developed various computation offloading frameworks for bringing cloud services closer to the user via edge networks. Specifically, an edge device needs to offload computationally intensive tasks because…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Andrew Crutcher , Caleb Koch , Kyle Coleman , Jon Patman , Flavio Esposito , Prasad Calyam

Future vehicles will have rich computing resources to support autonomous driving and be connected by wireless technologies. Vehicular fog networks (VeFN) have thus emerged to enable computing resource sharing via computation task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sheng Zhou , Yuxuan Sun , Zhiyuan Jiang , Zhisheng Niu

Combining an energy-efficient drone with a high-capacity truck for last-mile package delivery can benefit operators and customers by reducing delivery times and environmental impact. However, directly integrating drone flight dynamics into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Yineng Sun , Armin Fügenschuh , Vikrant Vaze

In recent years, cloud and edge architectures have gained tremendous focus for offloading computationally heavy applications. From machine learning and Internet of Thing (IOT) to industrial procedures and robotics, cloud computing have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Achilleas Santi Seisa , Sumeet Gajanan Satpute , George Nikolakopoulos

In this paper, we consider the mobile edge offloading scenario consisting of one mobile device (MD) with multiple independent tasks and various remote edge devices. In order to save energy, the user's device can offload the tasks to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Minh Hoang Ly , Thinh Quang Dinh , Ha Hoang Kha

Mobile edge computing (MEC) technology can reduce user latency and energy consumption by offloading computationally intensive tasks to the edge servers. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hongjiang Lei , Mingxu Yang , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan

Emerging applications such as autonomous driving pose the challenge of efficient cost-driven offloading in edge-cloud environments. This involves assigning tasks to edge and cloud servers for separate execution, with the goal of minimizing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Longkun Guo , Jiawei Lin , Xuanming Xu , Peng Li

Efficient data processing and computation are essential for the industrial Internet of things (IIoT) to empower various applications, which yet can be significantly bottlenecked by the limited energy capacity and computation capability of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Xiao Tang , Hongrui Zhang , Ruonan Zhang , Deyun Zhou , Yan Zhang , Zhu Han

This paper presents a new approach for formulating the delivery problem by drones with general energy consumption models where the drones visit a set of places to deliver parcels to customers. Drones can perform multiple trips that start…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Amir Ahmadi-Javid , Mahla Meskar

This paper studies high-speed online planning in dynamic environments. The problem requires finding time-optimal trajectories that conform to system dynamics, meeting computational constraints for real-time adaptation, and accounting for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Gilhyun Ryou , Lukas Lao Beyer , Sertac Karaman

Fog computing has emerged as a computing paradigm aimed at addressing the issues of latency, bandwidth and privacy when mobile devices are communicating with remote cloud services. The concept is to offload compute services closer to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Ayesha Abdul Majeed , Peter Kilpatrick , Ivor Spence , Blesson Varghese

After the advent of the Internet of Things and 5G networks, edge computing became the center of attraction. The tasks demanding high computation are generally offloaded to the cloud since the edge is resource-limited. The Edge Cloud is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hassan Asghar , Eun-Sung Jung

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

In this paper we develop a computational offloading strategy with graceful degradation for executing Model Predictive Control using the cloud. Backed up by previous work we simulate the control of a cyber-physical-system at high frequency…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Per Skarin , Johan Eker , Maria Kihl , Karl-Erik Årzén

Fog computing is an emerging distributed computing model for the Internet of Things (IoT). It extends computing and caching functions to the edge of wireless networks. Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide adequate support for fog…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Shuaijun Liu , Jiaying Yin , Zishu Zeng , Jingjin Wu

Fog computing enables use cases where data produced in end devices are stored, processed, and acted on directly at the edges of the network, yet computation can be offloaded to more powerful instances through the edge to cloud continuum.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Román Sosa , Csaba Kiraly , Juan D. Parra Rodriguez

Mobile edge computing and fog computing are promising techniques providing computation service closer to users to achieve lower latency. In this work, we study the optimal offloading strategy in the three-tier federated computation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ren-Hung Hwang , Yuan-Cheng Lai , Ying-Dar Lin

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) as an emerging paradigm utilizing cloudlet or fog nodes to extend remote cloud computing to the edge of the network, is foreseen as a key technology towards next generation wireless networks. By offloading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Long Chen , Jigang Wu , Xin Long , Zikai Zhang

In the edge computing paradigm, mobile devices offload the computational tasks to an edge server by routing the required data over the wireless network. The full potential of edge computing becomes realized only if a smart device selects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Saeed Ghoorchian , Setareh Maghsudi

We investigate the problem of computation offloading in a mobile edge computing architecture, where multiple energy-constrained users compete to offload their computational tasks to multiple servers through a shared wireless medium. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Navid Naderializadeh , Morteza Hashemi