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In 5G smart cities, edge computing is employed to provide nearby computing services for end devices, and the large-scale models (e.g., GPT and LLaMA) can be deployed at the network edge to boost the service quality. However, due to the…

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In the realm of mobile edge computing (MEC), efficient computation task offloading plays a pivotal role in ensuring a seamless quality of experience (QoE) for users. Maintaining a high QoE is paramount in today's interconnected world, where…

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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…

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Multi-access edge computing (MEC) aims to extend cloud service to the network edge to reduce network traffic and service latency. A fundamental problem in MEC is how to efficiently offload heterogeneous tasks of mobile applications from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jin Wang , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Albert Y. Zomaya , Nektarios Georgalas

The Internet of Things (IoT) devices are highly reliant on cloud systems to meet their storage and computational demands. However, due to the remote location of cloud servers, IoT devices often suffer from intermittent Wide Area Network…

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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

In mobile edge computing systems, an edge node may have a high load when a large number of mobile devices offload their tasks to it. Those offloaded tasks may experience large processing delay or even be dropped when their deadlines expire.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Ming Tang , Vincent W. S. Wong

Computational offloading is a promising approach for overcoming resource constraints on client devices by moving some or all of an application's computations to remote servers. With the advent of specialized hardware accelerators, client…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Nathan Ng , David Irwin , Ananthram Swami , Don Towsley , Prashant Shenoy

Low-Latency IoT applications such as autonomous vehicles, augmented/virtual reality devices and security applications require high computation resources to make decisions on the fly. However, these kinds of applications cannot tolerate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Amine Abouaomar , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Zoubeir Mlika , Abdellatif Kobbane

With the mass deployment of computing-intensive applications and delay-sensitive applications on end devices, only adequate computing resources can meet differentiated services' delay requirements. By offloading tasks to cloud servers or…

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Vehicular Mobile Edge Computing (VEC) drives the future by enabling low-latency, high-efficiency data processing at the very edge of vehicular networks. This drives innovation in key areas such as autonomous driving, intelligent…

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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables rich services in close proximity to the end users to provide high quality of experience (QoE) and contributes to energy conservation compared with local computing, but results in increased communication…

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Various mobile applications that comprise dependent tasks are gaining widespread popularity and are increasingly complex. These applications often have low-latency requirements, resulting in a significant surge in demand for computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jiagang Liu , Yun Mi , Xinyu Zhang , Xiaocui Li

With the fast growing quantity of data generated by smart devices and the exponential surge of processing demand in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, the resource-rich cloud centres have been utilised to tackle these challenges. To relieve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Jiashu Wu , Hao Dai , Yang Wang , Shigen Shen , Chengzhong Xu

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications demand efficient task offloading to handle heavy data loads with minimal latency. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) brings computation closer to devices to reduce latency and server load, optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Minod Perera , Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah , Sajib Mistry , Aneesh Krishna

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…

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The proliferation of artificial intelligence applications on edge devices necessitates efficient transport protocols that leverage multi-homed connectivity across heterogeneous networks. While Multipath TCP enables bandwidth aggregation,…

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Human digital twin (HDT) is an emerging paradigm that bridges physical twins (PTs) with powerful virtual twins (VTs) for assisting complex task executions in human-centric services. In this paper, we study a two-timescale online…

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A vast and growing number of IoT applications connect physical devices, such as scientific instruments, technical equipment, machines, and cameras, across heterogenous infrastructure from the edge to the cloud to provide responsive,…

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