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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) technology has been introduced to enable could computing at the edge of the network in order to help resource limited mobile devices with time sensitive data processing tasks. In this paradigm, mobile devices can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mohsen Sahraei Ardakani , Hong Wan , Rui Song

We consider a network of smart sensors for an edge computing application that sample a time-varying signal and send updates to a base station for remote global monitoring. Sensors are equipped with sensing and compute, and can either send…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Luca Ballotta , Giovanni Peserico , Francesco Zanini , Paolo Dini

Edge computing hosts applications close to the end users and enables low-latency real-time applications. Modern applications inturn have adopted the microservices architecture which composes applications as loosely coupled smaller…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Dhruv Garg , Nanjangud C. Narendra , Selome Tesfatsion

With the popularity of mobile devices and development of computationally intensive applications, researchers are focusing on offloading computation to Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) server due to its high computational efficiency and low…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yuwei Li , Bo Yang , Hao Wu , Qiaoni Han , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

Large language model (LLM) agents at the network edge offer low-latency execution for routine queries. In contrast, complex requests often require the superior capability of cloud models, incurring higher latency and cost. To navigate this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuxuan Chen , Rongpeng Li , Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Chenghui Peng , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

The increasing complexity of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has led to significant interest in computational offloading to external infrastructures such as edge servers, vehicular nodes, and UAVs. These dynamic and heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ashab Uddin , Ahmed Hamdi Sakr , Ning Zhang

Existing works on task offloading in mobile edge computing (MEC) networks often assume a task is executed once at a single edge node (EN). Downloading the computed result from the EN back to the mobile user may suffer long delay if the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Kuikui Li , Meixia Tao , Zhiyong Chen

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

Edge computing allows for reduced latency and operational costs compared to centralized cloud systems. In this context, serverless functions are emerging as a lightweight and effective paradigm for managing computational tasks on edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Prakhar Jain , Prakhar Singhal , Divyansh Pandey , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Karthik Vaidhyanathan

The continuous evolution of future mobile communication systems is heading towards the integration of communication and computing, with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) emerging as a crucial means of implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Xinyang Du , Xuming Fang

The Mobile Network Operator (MNO) must select how to delegate Mobile Device (MD) queries to its Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) server in order to maximize the overall benefit of admitted requests with varying latency needs. Unmanned Aerial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Asrar Ahmed Baktayan , Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Baltah

As the amount of data collected for crowdsensing applications increases rapidly due to improved sensing capabilities and the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the cloud server is no longer able to handle the large-scale…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jer Shyuan Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Sahil Garg , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Mohsen Guizani , Cyril Leung

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

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

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

Wireless charging coupled with computation offloading in edge networks offers a promising solution for realizing power-hungry and computation intensive applications on user devices. We consider a mutil-access edge computing (MEC) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

Edge computing is a promising approach for localized data processing for many edge applications and systems including Internet of Things (IoT), where computationally intensive tasks in IoT devices could be divided into sub-tasks and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Yuxuan Xing , Hulya Seferoglu

It is a big challenge for resource-limited mobile devices (MDs) to execute various complex and energy-consumed mobile applications. Fortunately, as a novel computing paradigm, edge computing (MEC) can provide abundant computing resources to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Binbin Huang , Zhongjin Lia , Peng Tang , Shangguang Wang , Jun Zhao , Haiyang Hua , Wanqing Lia , Victor Chang

Edge computing has emerged as a distributed computing paradigm to overcome practical scalability limits of cloud computing. The main principle of edge computing is to leverage on computational resources outside of the cloud for performing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-07 João Leitão , Pedro Ákos Costa , Maria Cecília Gomes , Nuno Preguiça

This paper studies a wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a dedicated energy transmitter (ET) uses the radio-frequency (RF) signal enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) to charge wireless devices for sustainable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Dixiao Wu , Feng Wang , Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu