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This paper studies a multi-user cooperative mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, in which a local mobile user can offload intensive computation tasks to multiple nearby edge devices serving as helpers for remote execution. We focus on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-21 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Jie Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

Due to the ever-increasing popularity of resource-hungry and delay-constrained mobile applications, the computation and storage capabilities of remote cloud has partially migrated towards the mobile edge, giving rise to the concept known as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Shermila Ranadheera , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

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 computation offloading (MECO) offloads intensive mobile computation to clouds located at the edges of cellular networks. Thereby, MECO is envisioned as a promising technique for prolonging the battery lives and enhancing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) pushes computing functionalities away from the centralized cloud to the network edge, thereby meeting the latency requirements of many emerging mobile applications and saving backhaul network bandwidth. Although…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Jie Xu , Lixing Chen , Pan Zhou

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) enhances the capacities and features of mobile devices by offloading computation-intensive tasks over wireless networks to edge servers. One challenge faced by the deployment of MEC in cellular networks is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Zezu Liang , Yuan Liu , Tat-Ming Lok , Kaibin Huang

With the proliferation of computation-extensive and latency-critical applications in the 5G and beyond networks, mobile-edge computing (MEC) or fog computing, which provides cloud-like computation and/or storage capabilities at the network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Hong Xing , Liang Liu , Jie Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

In order to support communication and computation cooperation, we propose ME-RAN architecture, which consists of mobile edge cloud (ME) as the computation provision platform and radio access network (RAN) as the communication interface.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kezhi Wang , Pei-Qiu Huang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we study a mobile edge computing (MEC) system in which the mobile device is assisted by a base station (BS) and a cooperative node. The mobile device has sequential tasks to complete, whereas the cooperative node assists the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Xiangg Li , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu

This paper proposes a novel multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) framework, where the computing tasks of terminal devices (TDs) can be decomposed into serial or parallel sub-tasks and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhenyu Zhao , Xiaoxia Xu , Tiankui Zhang , Junjie Li , Yuanwei Liu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) can enhance the computing capability of mobile devices, and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can provide high data rates. Combining these two technologies can effectively benefit the network with spectrum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Fang Fang , Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Chao Shen , Mugen Peng , George K. Karagiannidis

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has already shown the potential in enabling mobile devices to bear the computation-intensive applications by offloading some tasks to a nearby access point (AP) integrated with a MEC server (MES). However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Joshua Bassey , Xiangfang Li , Timothy Kroecker , Lijun Qian

Driven by great demands on low-latency services of the edge devices (EDs), mobile edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the computing capacities at the edge of the radio access network. However, conventional MEC servers suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Pengfei Wang , Zijie Zheng , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

We consider a multi-user multi-server mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which users arrive on a network randomly over time and generate computation tasks, which will be computed either locally on their own computing devices or be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Muhammad Sohaib , Sang-Woon Jeon , Wei Yu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables resource-limited IoT devices to complete computation-intensive or delay-sensitive task by offloading the task to adjacent edge server deployed at the base station (BS), thus becoming an important…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xiang Li , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Xiangming Li

By exploiting the superiority of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), NOMA-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) can provide scalable and low-latency computing services for the Internet of Things. However, given the prevalent stochasticity of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Meihui Hua , Hui Tian , Xinchen Lyu , Wanli Ni , Gaofeng Nie

This paper proposes a novel user cooperation approach in both computation and communication for mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to improve the energy efficiency for latency-constrained computation. We consider a basic three-node MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Xiaowen Cao , Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) assisted mobile edge computing systems have been exploited by researchers as a promising solution for providing computation services to mobile users outside of terrestrial infrastructure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Loc X. Nguyen , Yan Kyaw Tun , Tri Nguyen Dang , Yu Min Park , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong