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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that provides computing, storage, and networking resources within the edge of the mobile Radio Access Network (RAN). MEC servers are deployed on generic computing platform within the RAN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Tuyen X. Tran , Abolfazl Hajisami , Parul Pandey , Dario Pompili

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology for enhancing the computation capacities and features of mobile users by offloading complex computation tasks to the edge servers. However, mobility poses great challenges on delivering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zezu Liang , Yuan Liu , Tat-Ming Lok , Kaibin Huang

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Laha Ale , Ning Zhang , Scott A. King , Jose Guardiola

Smart-city services are typically developed as closed systems within each city's vertical, communicating and interacting with cloud services while remaining isolated within each provider's domain. With the emergence of 5G private domains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Rodrigo Rosmaninho , Duarte Raposo , Pedro Rito , Susana Sargento

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 been gaining significant interest from first responders and tactical teams, primarily because they can employ handheld mobile devices to form a computing cluster (for computing tasks like face/scene…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-26 S. Bhunia , R. Stoleru , M. Sagor , A. Haroon , A. Altaweel , M. Chao , M. Maurice , R. Blalock

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising paradigm to accommodate the increasingly prosperous delay-sensitive and computation-intensive applications in 5G systems. To achieve optimum computation performance in a dynamic MEC environment,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xian Li , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Computing at the edge is increasingly important as Internet of Things (IoT) devices at the edge generate massive amounts of data and pose challenges in transporting all that data to the Cloud where they can be analyzed. On the other hand,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Christian Makaya , Keith Grueneberg , Bongjun Ko , David Wood , Nirmit Desai , Xiping Wang

The evolution of smart cities demands scalable, secure, and energy-efficient architectures for real-time data processing. With the number of IoT devices expected to exceed 40 billion by 2030, traditional cloud-based systems are increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Debasish Jana , Pinakpani Pal , Pawan Kumar

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

To meet the growing local and distributed computing needs, the cloud is now descending to the network edge and sometimes to user equipments. This approach aims at distributing computing, data processing, and networking services closer to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Mathieu Bouet , Vania Conan , Hicham Khalife , Kevin Phemius , Jawad Seddar

Edge computing provides a cloud-like architecture where small-scale resources are distributed near the network edge, enabling applications on resource-constrained devices to offload latency-critical computations to these resources. While…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Muhammad Danish Waseem , Ahmed Ali-Eldin

To overcome long propagation delays for data exchange between the remote cloud data center and end devices in Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC), Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is merging to push mobile computing, network control and storage to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zhenhua Duan , Cong Tian , Nan Zhang , Mengchu Zhou , Bin Yu , Xiaobing Wang , Jiangen Guo , Ying Wu

Machine learning algorithms, in conjunction with user data, hold the promise of revolutionizing the way we interact with our phones, and indeed their widespread adoption in the design of apps bear testimony to this promise. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Jorge Ortiz , Chien-Chin Huang , Supriyo Chakraborty

A growing number of critical workflow applications leverage a streamlined edge-hub-cloud architecture, which diverges from the conventional edge computing paradigm. An edge device, in collaboration with a hub device and a cloud server,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Andreas Kouloumpris , Georgios L. Stavrinides , Maria K. Michael , Theocharis Theocharides

Computation offloading becomes useful for users of limited computing power and mobile edge computing (MEC) can help mobile users perform their tasks more effectively. In this paper, we consider MEC when users perform tasks with local data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinho Choi

An increasing amount of data is being injected into the network from IoT (Internet of Things) applications. Many of these applications, developed to improve society's quality of life, are latency-critical and inject large amounts of data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Patricia Arroba , Rajkumar Buyya , Román Cárdenas , José L. Risco-Martín , José M. Moya

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to meet the increasing demands and computing limitations of complex Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, implementing MEC in urban environments can be challenging due to factors…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Subhrajit Barick , Chetna Singhal

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

As the explosive growth of smart devices and the advent of many new applications, traffic volume has been growing exponentially. The traditional centralized network architecture cannot accommodate such user demands due to heavy burden on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Shuo Wang , Xing Zhang , Yan Zhang , Lin Wang , Juwo Yang , Wenbo Wang