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Moving beyond just interconnected devices, the increasing interplay between communication and computation has fed the vision of real-time networked control systems. To obtain timely situational awareness, IoT devices continuously sample…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Xiaoqi Qin , Yanlin Li , Xianxin Song , Nan Ma , Chuan Huang , Ping Zhang

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology is a promising solution to assist power-constrained IoT devices by providing additional computing resources for time-sensitive tasks. In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , Tamer Başar

As a key technology in the 5G era, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has developed rapidly in recent years. MEC aims to reduce the service delay of mobile users, while alleviating the processing pressure on the core network. MEC can be regarded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Minxian Xu , Qiheng Zhou , Huaming Wu , Weiwei Lin , Kejiang Ye , Chengzhong Xu

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a type of network architecture that provides cloud computing capabilities at the edge of the network. We consider the use case of video surveillance for an university campus running on a 5G-MEC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ricardo N. Boing , Hugo Vaz Sampaio , Fernando Koch , Rene N. S. Cruz , Carlos B. Westphall

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

In Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), Internet of Things (IoT) devices offload computationally-intensive tasks to edge nodes, where they are executed within containers, reducing the reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. Frequent upgrades…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Jiong Lou , Weijia Jia

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

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

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as the enabling platform for a variety of promising applications, such as smart transportation and smart city, where massive devices are interconnected for data collection and processing. These IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Laha Ale , Ning Zhang , Xiaojie Fang , Xianfu Chen , Shaohua Wu , Longzhuang Li

We develop a novel framework for fully decentralized offloading policy design in multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems. The system comprises $N$ power-constrained user equipments (UEs) assisted by an edge server (ES) to process incoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Shubham Aggarwal , Melih Bastopcu , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Tamer Başar , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

Task offloading to mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a key technology to alleviate the computation workloads of mobile devices and decrease service latency for the computation-intensive applications. Device battery consumption is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Siqi Zhang , Na Yi , Yi Ma

To deploy machine learning-based algorithms for real-time applications with strict latency constraints, we consider an edge-computing setting where a subset of inputs are offloaded to the edge for processing by an accurate but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Ayan Chakrabarti , Roch Guérin , Chenyang Lu , Jiangnan Liu

While mobile edge computing (MEC) alleviates the computation and power limitations of mobile devices, additional latency is incurred when offloading tasks to remote MEC servers. In this work, the power-delay tradeoff in the context of task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , H. Vincent Poor

Code offloading is promising to accelerate mobile applications and save energy of mobile devices by shifting some computation to cloud. However, existing code offloading systems suffer from a long communication delay between mobile devices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Li Lin , Xiaofei Liao

IoT devices recently are utilized to detect the state transition in the surrounding environment and then transmit the status updates to the base station for future system operations. To satisfy the stringent timeliness requirement of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yi Chen , Zheng Chang , Geyong Min , Shiwen Mao , Timo Hämäläinen

Task offloading and scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are vital for meeting the low-latency demands of modern IoT and dynamic task scheduling scenarios. MEC reduces the processing burden on resource-constrained devices by enabling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Arild Yonkeu , 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

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

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

This letter investigates a cache-enabled multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system with dynamic task arrivals, taking into account the impact of proactive cache placement on the system's overall energy consumption. We consider that an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jingxuan Liang , Hong Xing , Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau