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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

We consider a hierarchical edge-cloud architecture in which services are provided to mobile users as chains of virtual network functions. Each service has specific computation requirements and target delay performance, which require placing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Itamar Cohen , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Paolo Giaccone , Gabriel Scalosub

The integration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies has recently emerged as an effective solution for extending battery life and increasing the computing power of wireless devices. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yuegui Chen , Suzhi Bi , Xian Li , Xiaohui Lin , Hui Wang

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a prominent technology to liberate mobile devices from computationally intensive workloads, by offloading them to the proximate MEC server. To make offloading effective, the radio and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Motivated by real-world applications such as rental and cloud computing services, we investigate pricing for reusable resources. We consider a system where a single resource with a fixed number of identical copies serves customers with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Santiago R. Balseiro , Will Ma , Wenxin Zhang

We investigate the problem of computation offloading in a mobile edge computing architecture, where multiple energy-constrained users compete to offload their computational tasks to multiple servers through a shared wireless medium. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Navid Naderializadeh , Morteza Hashemi

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 multi-access edge computing (MEC) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

We present a framework for performance optimization in serverless edge-cloud platforms using dynamic task placement. We focus on applications for smart edge devices, for example, smart cameras or speakers, that need to perform processing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Anirban Das , Shigeru Imai , Mike P. Wittie , Stacy Patterson

Multi-access edge computing provides localized resources within mobile networks to address the requirements of emerging latency-sensitive and computing-intensive applications. At the edge, dynamic requests necessitate sophisticated resource…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Haiyuan Li , Yuelin Liu , Hari Madhukumar , Amin Emami , Xueqing Zhou , Yulei Wu , Xenofon Vasilakos , Shuangyi Yan , Dimitra Simeonidou

In order to support communication and computation cooperation, we propose ME-RAN architecture, which consists of mobile edge cloud (ME) as the computation provision platform and radio access network (RAN) as the communication interface.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kezhi Wang , Pei-Qiu Huang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper studies a sequential task offloading problem for a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system. We consider a dynamic optimization approach, which embraces wireless channel fluctuations and random deep neural network (DNN) task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Feng Wang , Songfu Cai , Vincent K. N. Lau

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is emerging to support delay-sensitive 5G applications at the edge of mobile networks. When a user moves erratically among multiple MEC nodes, the challenge of how to dynamically migrate its service to maintain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Huirong Ma , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

With the continuous growth of mobile data and the unprecedented demand for computing power, resource-constrained edge devices cannot effectively meet the requirements of Internet of Things (IoT) applications and Deep Neural Network (DNN)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Guanjin Qu , Huaming Wu

By acquiring cloud-like capacities at the edge of a network, edge computing is expected to significantly improve user experience. In this paper, we formulate a hybrid edge-cloud computing system where an edge device with limited local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Thinh Quang Dinh , Ben Liang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Hyundong Shin

Various mobile applications that comprise dependent tasks are gaining widespread popularity and are increasingly complex. These applications often have low-latency requirements, resulting in a significant surge in demand for computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jiagang Liu , Yun Mi , Xinyu Zhang , Xiaocui Li

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged for reducing energy consumption and latency by allowing mobile users to offload computationally intensive tasks to the MEC server. Due to the spectrum reuse in small cell network, the inter-cell…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Jianen Yan , Ning Li , Zhaoxin Zhang , Alex X. Liu , Jose Fernan Martinez , Xin Yuan

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising approach to deal with explosive computation requirements by enabling cloud computing capabilities at the edge of networks. Existing models of MEC impose some strong assumptions on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Tao Deng , Zhanwei Yu , Di Yuan

This paper considers a practical mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where edge server does not pre-install the program required to perform user offloaded computing tasks. A partial program offloading (PPO) scheme is proposed, which can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Taizhou Yi , Guopeng Zhang , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang

Multi-access-Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising solution for computationally demanding rigorous applications, that can meet 6G network service requirements. However, edge servers incur high computation costs during task processing.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Asad Aftab , Semeen Rehman