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Mobile edge computing facilitates users to offload computation tasks to edge servers for meeting their stringent delay requirements. Previous works mainly explore task offloading when system-side information is given (e.g., server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xiong Wang , Jiancheng Ye , John C. S. Lui

In this paper, we investigate a multi-user offloading problem in the overlapping domain of a multi-server mobile edge computing system. We divide the original problem into two stages: the offloading decision making stage and the request…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Siyu Wang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Yan Zhang , Chau Yuen

We present a model for measuring the impact of offloading soft real-time jobs over multi-tier cloud infrastructures. The jobs originate in mobile devices and offloading strategies may choose to execute them locally, in neighbouring devices,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Joaquim Silva , Eduardo R. B. Marques , Luís M. B Lopes , Fernando Silva

The growth in artificial intelligence (AI) technology has attracted substantial interests in latency-aware task offloading of mobile edge computing (MEC)-namely, minimizing service latency. Additionally, the use of MEC systems poses an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Minwoo Kim , Jonggyu Jang , Youngchol Choi , Hyun Jong Yang

The emergence of 5G networks has enabled the deployment of a two-tier edge and vehicular-fog network. It comprises Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Vehicular-Fogs (VFs), strategically positioned closer to Internet of Things (IoT)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Frezer Guteta Wakgra , Binayak Kar , Seifu Birhanu Tadele , Shan-Hsiang Shen , Asif Uddin Khan

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to meet the increasing demands and computing limitations of complex Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, implementing MEC in urban environments can be challenging due to factors…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Subhrajit Barick , Chetna Singhal

Energy harvesting aided mobile edge computing (MEC) has gained much attention for its widespread application in the computation-intensive, latency-sensitive and energy-hungry scenario. In this paper, computation offloading from multi-MD to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Tian Zhang , Wei Chen

This letter considers a multi-access mobile edge computing (MEC) network consisting of multiple users, multiple base stations, and a malicious eavesdropper. Specifically, the users adopt the partial offloading strategy by partitioning the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mingxiong Zhao , Huiqi Bao , Li Yin , Jianping Yao , Tony Q. S. Quek

Mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) networks have been deemed a promising paradigm to support massive energy-constrained and computation-limited IoT devices. IoT with mobility has found tremendous new services in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Han Hu , Weiwei Song , Qun Wang , Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu

Merging Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which is an emerging paradigm to meet the increasing computation demands from mobile devices, with the dense deployment of Base Stations (BSs), is foreseen as a key step towards the next generation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Lixing Chen , Sheng Zhou , Jie Xu

In this paper, we investigate a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based mobile edge computing (MEC) network, in which two users may partially offload their respective tasks to a single MEC server through uplink NOMA. We propose a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Yinghui Ye , Guangyue Lu , Rose Qingyang Hu , Liqin Shi

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

Collaborative edge computing (CEC) is an emerging paradigm where heterogeneous edge devices (stakeholders) collaborate to fulfill computation tasks, such as model training or video processing, by sharing communication and computation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jinkun Zhang , Yuezhou Liu , Edmund Yeh

The vehicular edge computing (VEC) system integrates the computing resources of vehicles, and provides computing services for other vehicles and pedestrians with task offloading. However, the vehicular task offloading environment is dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Yuxuan Sun , Xueying Guo , Jinhui Song , Sheng Zhou , Zhiyuan Jiang , Xin Liu , Zhisheng Niu

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables low-latency applications by bringing computation closer to the user, but dynamic task arrivals and communication threats like jamming complicate reliable task offloading and resource allocation. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ghazal Asemian , Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables the provision of high-reliability and low-latency applications by offering computation and storage resources in close proximity to end-users. Different from traditional computation task offloading in MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Rong Huang

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

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising paradigm to reduce service latency for data processing in the Internet of Things, by provisioning computing resources at the network edge. In this work, we jointly optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Laha Ale , Scott A. King , Ning Zhang , Abdul Rahman Sattar , Janahan Skandaraniyam

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm to provide flexible computing services close to user devices (UDs). However, meeting the computation-hungry and delay-sensitive demands of UDs faces several challenges,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Geng Sun , Minghua Yuan , Zemin Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Dong In Kim

This paper studies the offloading service improvement of multi-access edge computing (MEC) based on backscatter communication (BackCom) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (BAC-NOMA). A hybrid BAC-NOMA protocol is proposed, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haodong Li