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The Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) system located close to the client allows mobile smart devices to offload their computations onto edge servers, enabling them to benefit from low-latency computing services. Both cloud service providers and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yanheng Guo , Yan Zhang , Linjie Wu , Mengxia Li , Xingjuan Cai , Jinjun Chen

The freshness of information in real-time monitoring systems has received increasing attention, with Age of Information (AoI) emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness. In many applications, update packets need to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology to release the tension between computation-intensive applications and resource-limited mobile terminals (MTs). In this paper, we study the delay-optimal computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Xianling Meng , Wei Wang , Yitu Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Zhaoyang Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) pushes computing resources to the edge of the network and distributes them at the edge of the mobile network. Offloading computing tasks to the edge instead of the cloud can reduce computing latency and backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Run Yang , Hui He , Weizhe Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is one of the promising solutions to process computational-intensive tasks for the emerging time-critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) use cases, e.g., virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), autonomous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Jianhui Liu , Qi Zhang

Virtually all of the rapidly increasing data traffic consumed by mobile users requires some kind of processing, normally performed at cloud servers. A recent thrust, {\em mobile edge computing}, moves such processing to servers {\em within}…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Francesco Malandrino , Scott Kirkpatrick , Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini

In this paper, we investigate the scheduling design of a mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, where the random arrival of mobile devices with computation tasks in both spatial and temporal domains is considered. The binary computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Shanfeng Huang , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang

The notion of timely status updating is investigated in the context of cloud computing. Measurements of a time-varying process of interest are acquired by a sensor node, and uploaded to a cloud server to undergo some required computations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Ahmed Arafa , Roy D. Yates , H. Vincent Poor

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

Age of Information (AoI) is emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness in real-time monitoring systems. For computation-intensive status data, the information is not revealed until being processed. We consider a status…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

We consider the problem of task offloading in multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems constituting $N$ devices assisted by an edge server (ES), where the devices can split task execution between a local processor and the ES. Since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , Tamer Başar

By allowing a mobile device to offload computation-intensive tasks to a base station, mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for saving the mobile device's energy. In real applications, the offloading may span multiple fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Rongfei Fan , Fudong Li , Song Jin , Gongpu Wang , Hai Jiang , Shaohua Wu

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to enable real-time information transmission and computing by offloading computation tasks from wireless devices to network edge.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Mengyu Liu , Yuan Liu

Mobile edge clouds (MECs) bring the benefits of the cloud closer to the user, by installing small cloud infrastructures at the network edge. This enables a new breed of real-time applications, such as instantaneous object recognition and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Andrew Machen , Shiqiang Wang , Kin K. Leung , Bong Jun Ko , Theodoros Salonidis

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has attracted great interests as a promising approach to augment computational capabilities of mobile devices. An important issue in the MEC paradigm is computation offloading. In this paper, we propose an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Chenmeng Wang , S. Hu

In this paper, we consider a task offloading problem in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) network, in which edge users can either use their local processing unit to compute their tasks or offload their tasks to a nearby edge server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Babak Badnava , Keenan Roach , Kenny Cheung , Morteza Hashemi , Ness B Shroff

Edge computing is an emerging technology which places computing at the edge of the network to provide an ultra-low latency. Computation offloading, a paradigm that migrates computing from mobile devices to remote servers, can now use the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Li Lin , Peng Li , Jinbo Xiong , Mingwei Lin

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology in the 5G era. It is deemed an effective paradigm to support computation-intensive and delay critical applications even at energy-constrained and computation-limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Han Hu , Weiwei Song , Qun Wang , Rose Qingyang Hu , Hongbo Zhu

The fifth generation (5G) mobile telecommunication network is expected to support Multi- Access Edge Computing (MEC), which intends to distribute computation tasks and services from the central cloud to the edge clouds. Towards…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Bin Han , Stan Wong , Christian Mannweiler , Marcos Rate Crippa , Hans D. Schotten

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