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This work considers a parallel task execution strategy in vehicular edge computing (VEC) networks, where edge servers are deployed along the roadside to process offloaded computational tasks of vehicular users. To minimize the overall…

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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…

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To mitigate computational power gap between the network core and edges, mobile edge computing (MEC) is poised to play a fundamental role in future generations of wireless networks. In this letter, we consider a non-orthogonal multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Vaibhav Kumar , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

Many robotic applications that are critical for robot performance require immediate feedback, hence execution time is a critical concern. Furthermore, it is common that robots come with a fixed quantity of hardware resources; if an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Manoj Penmetcha , Shyam Sundar Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

This paper proposes a novel multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) framework, where the computing tasks of terminal devices (TDs) can be decomposed into serial or parallel sub-tasks and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhenyu Zhao , Xiaoxia Xu , Tiankui Zhang , Junjie Li , Yuanwei Liu

Scavenging the idling computation resources at the enormous number of mobile devices can provide a powerful platform for local mobile cloud computing. The vision can be realized by peer-to-peer cooperative computing between edge devices,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang

Mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) has been recognized as a promising solution to alleviate the burden of resource-limited Internet of Thing (IoT) devices by offloading computation tasks to the edge of cellular networks (also known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Xiangyu He , Hong Xing , Yue Chen , Arumugam Nallanathan

Modern web services rely on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to efficiently deliver contents to end users. In order to minimize the experienced communication cost, it is necessary to send the end user's requests to the nearest servers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Hamid Ghasemi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Saeed Hadadan

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables the provision of high-reliability and low-latency applications by offering computation and storage resources in close proximity to end-users. Different from traditional computation task offloading in MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Rong Huang

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the birth of various new IoT devices, the capacity of massive IoT devices is facing challenges. Fortunately, edge computing can optimize problems such as delay and connectivity by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Shihao Shen , Yiwen Han , Xiaofei Wang , Yan Wang

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

In this paper, we revisit the communication vs. distributed computing trade-off, studied within the framework of MapReduce in [1]. An implicit assumption in the aforementioned work is that each server performs all possible computations on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Mohammed Karmoose , Christina Fragouli

This study investigates the trade-off between system stability and offloading cost in collaborative edge computing. While collaborative offloading among multiple edge servers enhances resource utilization, existing methods often overlook…

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Channel estimation in mmWave and THz-range wireless communications (producing Gb/Tb-range of data) is critical to configuring system parameters related to transmission signal quality, and yet it remains a daunting challenge both in software…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Zied Ennaceur , Anna Engelmann , Admela Jukan

With the development of intelligent applications (e.g., self-driving, real-time emotion recognition, etc), there are higher requirements for the cloud intelligence. However, cloud intelligence depends on the multi-modal data collected by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Min Chen , Yixue Hao , Kai Lin , Zhiyong Yuan , Long Hu

This letter investigates computation offloading and transmit precoding co-design for multi-access edge computing (MEC), where multiple MEC users (MUs) equipped with multiple antennas access the MEC server in a non-orthogonal multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Deyou Zhang , Meng Wang , Shuo Shi , Ming Xiao

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

To circumvent persistent connectivity to the cloud infrastructure, the current emphasis on computing at network edge devices in the multi-robot domain is a promising enabler for delay-sensitive jobs, yet its adoption is rife with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Nazish Tahir , Ramviyas Parasuraman

With the emergence of compute-intensive and delay-sensitive applications in vehicular networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising complement for vehicular edge computing due to the high mobility and flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hongbao Li , Ziye Jia , Sijie He , Kun Guo , Qihui Wu

Load balancing plays a critical role in efficiently dispatching jobs in parallel-server systems such as cloud networks and data centers. A fundamental challenge in the design of load balancing algorithms is to achieve an optimal trade-off…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Mark van der Boor , Sem Borst , Johan van Leeuwaarden