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Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) techniques have been successfully applied for solving complex decision-making and control tasks in multiple fields including robotics, autonomous driving, healthcare and natural language processing. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Amanda Jayanetti , Saman Halgamuge , Rajkumar Buyya

Lightweight containers provide an efficient approach for deploying computation-intensive applications in network edge. The layered storage structure of container images can further reduce the deployment cost and container startup time.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhiqing Tang , Wentao Peng , Jianxiong Guo , Jiong Lou , Hanshuai Cui , Tian Wang , Yuan Wu , Weijia Jia

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key component of 6G networks, as it enables communication and computing services to adapt to end users' requirements and demand patterns. The management of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a meaningful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Maddalena Boscaro , Federico Mason , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella

In this paper, we aim to address the challenge of hybrid mobile edge-quantum computing (MEQC) for sustainable task offloading scheduling in mobile networks. We develop cost-effective designs for both task offloading mode selection and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Ziqiang Ye , Yulan Gao , Yue Xiao , Minrui Xu , Han Yu , Dusit Niyato

Balancing mutually diverging performance metrics, such as, processing latency, outcome accuracy, and end device energy consumption is a challenging undertaking for deep learning model inference in ad-hoc edge environments. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Motahare Mounesan , Xiaojie Zhang , Saptarshi Debroy

In this paper, we investigate the scheduling design of a mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where active mobile devices with computation tasks randomly appear in a cell. Every task can be computed at either the mobile device or the MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Shanfeng Huang , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang , Kaibin Huang

We consider the optimization of distributed resource scheduling to minimize the sum of task latency and energy consumption for all the Internet of things devices (IoTDs) in a large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) system. To address this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Feibo Jiang , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan

The paper presents an efficient real-time scheduling algorithm for intelligent real-time edge services, defined as those that perform machine intelligence tasks, such as voice recognition, LIDAR processing, or machine vision, on behalf of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Shuochao Yao , Yifan Hao , Yiran Zhao , Huajie Shao , Dongxin Liu , Shengzhong Liu , Tianshi Wang , Jinyang Li , Tarek Abdelzaher

Adaptive Mixed-Criticality (AMC) is a fixed-priority preemptive scheduling algorithm for mixed-criticality hard real-time systems. It dominates many other scheduling algorithms for mixed-criticality systems, but does so at the cost of…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Bruno Mendes , Pedro F. Souto , Pedro C. Diniz

As edge computing expands, serving multiple deep neural network (DNN) models on a single shared GPU has become a common yet challenging scenario, where each scheduling decision affects the tail latency of all concurrent queues. Existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiahe Cao , Xiaomeng Li , Qiang Liu , Tao Han , Ning Zhang , Weisong Shi

Metascheduling in time-triggered architectures has been crucial in adapting to dynamic and unpredictable environments, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of task execution. However, traditional approaches face significant challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Samer Alshaer , Ala Khalifeh , Roman Obermaisser

Workflow scheduling is a long-studied problem in parallel and distributed computing (PDC), aiming to efficiently utilize compute resources to meet user's service requirements. Recently proposed scheduling methods leverage the low response…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Shreshth Tuli , Giuliano Casale , Nicholas R. Jennings

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are being applied to a wide range of edge intelligent applications, it is critical for edge inference platforms to have both high-throughput and low-latency at the same time. Such edge platforms with multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Ziyang Zhang , Huan Li , Yang Zhao , Changyao Lin , Jie Liu

Multi-user delay constrained scheduling is important in many real-world applications including wireless communication, live streaming, and cloud computing. Yet, it poses a critical challenge since the scheduler needs to make real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pihe Hu , Ling Pan , Yu Chen , Zhixuan Fang , Longbo Huang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising paradigm to reduce service latency for data processing in the Internet of Things, by provisioning computing resources at the network edge. In this work, we jointly optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Laha Ale , Scott A. King , Ning Zhang , Abdul Rahman Sattar , Janahan Skandaraniyam

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered a novel paradigm for computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks in fifth generation (5G) networks and beyond. However, its uncertainty, referred to as dynamic and randomness, from the mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Peng Wei , Kun Guo , Ye Li , Jue Wang , Wei Feng , Shi Jin , Ning Ge , Ying-Chang Liang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm for real-time applications with intensive computational needs (e.g., autonomous driving), as it can reduce the processing delay. In this work, we focus on the timeliness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Lyudong Jin , Ming Tang , Meng Zhang , Hao Wang

Collaborative edge computing addresses the resource constraints of individual edge nodes by enabling resource sharing and task co-processing across multiple nodes. To fully leverage the advantages of collaborative edge computing, joint…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yang Li , Xing Zhang , Yunji Zhao , Wenbo Wang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is essential for next-generation mobile network applications that prioritize various performance metrics, including delays and energy consumption. However, conventional single-objective scheduling solutions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Ning Yang , Junrui Wen , Meng Zhang , Ming Tang

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