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We consider a multi-user multi-server mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which users arrive on a network randomly over time and generate computation tasks, which will be computed either locally on their own computing devices or be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Muhammad Sohaib , Sang-Woon Jeon , Wei Yu

Ultra-dense edge computing (UDEC) has great potential, especially in the 5G era, but it still faces challenges in its current solutions, such as the lack of: i) efficient utilization of multiple 5G resources (e.g., computation,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Shuai Yu , Xu Chen , Zhi Zhou , Xiaowen Gong , Di Wu

Tactile Internet is an emerging concept that focuses on supporting high-fidelity, ultra-responsive, and widely available human-to-machine interactions. To reduce the transmission latency and alleviate Internet congestion, fog computing has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Yong Xiao , Marwan Krunz

As Internet of Things (IoT) technology advances, end devices like sensors and smartphones are progressively equipped with AI models tailored to their local memory and computational constraints. Local inference reduces communication costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Caelin Kaplan , Angelo Rodio , Tareq Si Salem , Chuan Xu , Giovanni Neglia

By provisioning inference offloading services, edge inference drives the rapid growth of AI applications at network edge. However, how to reduce the inference latency remains a significant challenge. To address this issue, we develop a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Guanqiao Qu , Qian Chen , Xianhao Chen , Kaibin Huang , Yuguang Fang

With the rapid development of the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), mobile edge computing (MEC) becomes an essential technology underpinning AIoT applications. However, multi-angle resource constraints, multi-user task competition,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Weixi Li , Rongzuo Guo , Yuning Wang , Fangying Chen

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides low-latency offloading solutions for computationally intensive tasks, effectively improving the computing efficiency and battery life of mobile devices. However, for data-intensive tasks or scenarios…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xuyang Chen , Daquan Feng , Wei Jiang , Qu Luo , Gaojie Chen , Yao Sun

This paper addresses the computational offloading of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to nearby devices with similar processing capabilities, to avoid the larger communication delays incurred for cloud offloading. We present a preemption aware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jamie Cotter , Ignacio Castineiras , Donna O'Shea , Victor Cionca

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has empowered mobile devices (MDs) in supporting artificial intelligence (AI) applications through collaborative efforts with proximal MEC servers. Unfortunately, despite the great promise of device-edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Wenhao Zhuang , Yuyi Mao

The ubiquitous use of IoT and machine learning applications is creating large amounts of data that require accurate and real-time processing. Although edge-based smart data processing can be enabled by deploying pretrained models, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yinghan Long , Indranil Chakraborty , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Kaushik Roy

Facing the trend of merging wireless communications and multi-access edge computing (MEC), this article studies computation offloading in the beyond fifth-generation networks. To address the technical challenges originating from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Zhi Liu , Ning Zhang , Yusheng Ji

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is a promising technique towards 6G networks, and generative foundation models such as large language models (LLMs) have attracted considerable interest from academia and telecom industry. This work…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Hao Zhou , Chengming Hu , Dun Yuan , Ye Yuan , Di Wu , Xue Liu , Zhu Han , Charlie Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is one of the promising solutions to process computational-intensive tasks for the emerging time-critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) use cases, e.g., virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), autonomous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Jianhui Liu , Qi Zhang

Edge-device co-inference, which concerns the cooperation between edge devices and an edge server for completing inference tasks over wireless networks, has been a promising technique for enabling various kinds of intelligent services at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiang Jiao , Dingzhu Wen , Guangxu Zhu , Wei Jiang , Wu Luo , Yuanming Shi

The limited capabilities of user equipment restrict the local implementation of computation-intensive applications. Edge computing, especially the edge intelligence system, enables local users to offload the computation tasks to the edge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Zelin Ji , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Han Zhu

To support on-device inference, the next-generation mobile networks are expected to support real-time model downloading services to mobile users. However, powerful AI models typically have large model sizes, resulting in excessive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Guanqiao Qu , Tao Li , Qian Chen , Xianhao Chen , Sheng Zhou

Motivated by applications such as on-device collaborative neural network inference, this work investigates edge-facilitated collaborative fog computing - in which edge-devices collaborate with each other and with the edge of the network to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Antoine Paris , Hamed Mirghasemi , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

Since emerging edge applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) analytics and augmented reality have tight latency constraints, hardware AI accelerators have been recently proposed to speed up deep neural network (DNN) inference run by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Qianlin Liang , Walid A. Hanafy , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

In recent years, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites have witnessed rapid development, with inference based on Deep Neural Network (DNN) models emerging as the prevailing technology for remote sensing satellite image recognition. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yijie Chen , Qiyang Zhang , Yiran Zhang , Xiao Ma , Ao Zhou