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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

In recent studies, researchers have developed various computation offloading frameworks for bringing cloud services closer to the user via edge networks. Specifically, an edge device needs to offload computationally intensive tasks because…

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By allowing a mobile device to offload computation-intensive tasks to a base station, mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for saving the mobile device's energy. In real applications, the offloading may span multiple fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Rongfei Fan , Fudong Li , Song Jin , Gongpu Wang , Hai Jiang , Shaohua Wu

Edge computing has become one of the key enablers for ultra-reliable and low-latency communications in the industrial Internet of Things in the fifth generation communication systems, and is also a promising technology in the future sixth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Xiaoyu Hao , Ruohai Zhao , Tao Yang , Yulin Hu , Bo Hu , Yuhe Qiu

Field-deployable edge computing nodes form a network and are used to complete scientific tasks for remote sensing and monitoring. The networked nodes collectively decide which scientific applications to run while they are constrained by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Henry Abrahamson , Yongho Kim , Seongha Park , Ermin Wei

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is considered as an efficient method to relieve the computation burden of mobile devices. In order to reduce the energy consumption and time delay of mobile devices (MDs) in MEC, multiple users multiple input and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Changfeng Ding , Jun-Bo Wang , Ming Cheng , Chuanwen Chang , Jin-Yuan Wang , Min Lin

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising architecture to provide low-latency applications for future Internet of Things (IoT)-based network systems. Together with the increasing scholarly attention on task offloading, the problem of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Zheng Xiao , Dan He , Yu Chen , Anthony Theodore Chronopoulos , Schahram Dustdar , Jiayi Du

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.…

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The continuous evolution of future mobile communication systems is heading towards the integration of communication and computing, with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) emerging as a crucial means of implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Xinyang Du , Xuming Fang

To accommodate exponentially increasing traffic demands of vehicle-based applications, operators are utilizing offloading as a promising technique to improve quality of service (QoS), which gives rise to the application of Mobile Edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Zhijie Chen , Bo Yang , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

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

In this paper, we investigate a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based mobile edge computing (MEC) network, in which two users may partially offload their respective tasks to a single MEC server through uplink NOMA. We propose a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Yinghui Ye , Guangyue Lu , Rose Qingyang Hu , Liqin Shi

Computational offloading has become an enabling component for edge intelligence in mobile and smart devices. Existing offloading schemes mainly focus on mobile devices and servers, while ignoring the potential network congestion caused by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhongyuan Zhao , Jake Perazzone , Gunjan Verma , Santiago Segarra

Emerging edge computing paradigms enable heterogeneous devices to collaborate on complex computation applications. However, for congestible links and computing units, delay-optimal forwarding and offloading for service chain tasks (e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jinkun Zhang , Yuezhou Liu , Edmund Yeh

Mobile edge computing (MEC)-assisted internet of vehicle (IoV) is emerging as a promising paradigm to provide computing services for vehicles. However, meeting the computing-sensitive and computation-intensive demands of vehicles poses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yanheng Liu , Dalin Li , Hao Wu , Zemin Sun , Weihong Qin , Jun Li , Hongyang Du , Geng Sun

The Internet of Things (IoT) requires a new processing paradigm that inherits the scalability of the cloud while minimizing network latency using resources closer to the network edge. Building up such flexibility within the edge-to-cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Zeinab Nezami , Kamran Zamanifar , Karim Djemame , Evangelos Pournaras

Mobile edge computing has become an effective and fundamental paradigm for futuristic autonomous vehicles to offload computing tasks. However, due to the high mobility of vehicles, the dynamics of the wireless conditions, and the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jinkai Zheng , Tom H. Luan , Longxiang Gao , Yao Zhang , Yuan Wu

Deploying mobile edge computing (MEC) server in the mobile blockchain-enabled Internet of things (IoT) system is a promising approach to improve the system performance, however, it imposes a significant challenge on the trust of MEC server.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Yiping Zuo , Shi Jin , Shengli Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) emerges as a promising solution for servicing delay-sensitive tasks at the edge network. A body of recent literature started to focus on cost-efficient service placement and request scheduling. This work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Lina Su , Ne Wang , Ruiting Zhou , Zongpeng Li

The rapid proliferation of latency-sensitive and battery-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications has intensified the need for intelligent workload placement mechanisms across the Edge-Cloud computing continuum. In such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Anastasios Giannopoulos , Sotirios Spantideas , Panagiotis Trakadas