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Under a dramatic increase in mobile data traffic, a promising solution for edge computing systems to maintain their local service is the task migration that may be implemented by means of Autonomous mobile agents (AMA). In designing an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Khai Doan , Wesley Araujo , Evangelos Kranakis , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yannis Viniotis , Wonjae Shin

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm enabling vehicles to handle computation-intensive and time-sensitive applications for intelligent transportation. Due to the limited resources in MEC, effective resource…

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5G communication brings substantial improvements in the quality of service provided to various applications by achieving higher throughput and lower latency. However, interactive multimedia applications (e.g., ultra high definition video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Muhammad Asif Khan , Emna Baccour , Zina Chkirbene , Aiman Erbad , Ridha Hamila , Mounir Hamdi , Moncef Gabbouj

Incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) in the Internet of Things (IoT) enables resource-limited IoT devices to offload their computation tasks to a nearby edge server. In this paper, we investigate an IoT system assisted by the MEC…

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User experience on mobile devices is constrained by limited battery capacity and processing power, but 6G technology advancements are diving rapidly into mobile technical evolution. Mobile edge computing (MEC) offers a solution, offloading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Minh-Tuan Tran

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) enables computation and energy-constrained devices to offload and execute their tasks on powerful servers. Due to the scarce nature of the spectral and computation resources, it is important to jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Mustafa Emara , Hesham ElSawy , Miltiades C. Filippou , Gerhard Bauch

Incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) in Internet of Things (IoT) enables resource-limited IoT devices to offload their computation tasks to a nearby edge server. In this paper, we investigate an IoT system assisted by the MEC technique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Saman Atapattu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

In this paper, we analyze the average age of information (AoI) and the average peak AoI (PAoI) of a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system where a base station (BS) generates and transmits computation-intensive packets to user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhifeng Tang , Zhuo Sun , Nan Yang , Xiangyun Zhou

Edge computing is deemed a promising technique to execute latency-sensitive applications by offloading computation-intensive tasks to edge servers. Extensive research has been conducted in the field of end-device to edge server task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiang Li , Mustafa Abdallah , Yuan-Yao Lou , Mung Chiang , Kwang Taik Kim , Saurabh Bagchi

A smart city improves operational efficiency and comfort of living by harnessing techniques such as the Internet of Things (IoT) to collect and process data for decision making. To better support smart cities, data collected by IoT should…

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Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to enhance the quality of service, particularly for low-latency services, by enabling computing offloading to edge servers (ESs) in close proximity. To avoid network congestion,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yiqin Deng , Haixia Zhang , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

In this paper, a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which multiple IoT devices must transmit timely updates on the status information of a common underlying physical process to a common destination. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

In this article, we evaluate the first experience of computation offloading from drones to real fifth-generation (5G) operator systems, including commercial and private carrier-grade 5G networks. A follow-me drone service was implemented as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-01 David Candal-Ventureira , Francisco Javier González-Castaño , Felipe Gil-Castiñeira , Pablo Fondo-Ferreiro

The recent drastic increase in mobile data traffic has pushed the mobile edge computing systems to the limit of their capacity. A promising solution to this problem is the task migration provided by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Khai Doan , Wesley Araujo , Evangelos Kranakis , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yannis Viniotis

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that mobile devices can offload the computation-intensive or latency-critical tasks to the nearby MEC servers, so as to save energy and extend battery life. Unlike the cloud server, MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Kang Cheng , Yinglei Teng , Weiqi Sun , An Liu , Xianbin Wang

This paper investigates an information update system in which a mobile device monitors a physical process and sends status updates to an access point (AP). A fundamental trade-off arises between the timeliness of the information maintained…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yu-Pin Hsu , Yi-Hsuan Tseng

We study a wireless edge-computing system which allows multiple users to simultaneously offload computation-intensive tasks to multiple massive-MIMO access points, each with a collocated multi-access edge computing (MEC) server.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

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