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Cache-enabled coordinated mobile edge network is an emerging network architecture, wherein serving nodes located at the network edge have the capabilities of baseband signal processing and caching files at their local cache. The main goals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Shiwen He , Wei Huang , Jiaheng Wang , Ju Ren , Yongming Huang , Yaoxue Zhang

With the growing demand for latency-critical and computation-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) services, the IoT-oriented network architecture, mobile edge computing (MEC), has emerged as a promising technique to reinforce the computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jiechen Chen , Hong Xing , Xiaohui Lin , Arumugam Nallanathan , Suzhi Bi

Edge nodes (ENs) in Internet of Things commonly serve as gateways to cache sensing data while providing accessing services for data consumers. This paper considers multiple ENs that cache sensing data under the coordination of the cloud.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Xiongwei Wu , Xiuhua Li , Jun Li , P. C. Ching , Victor C. M. Leung , H. Vincent Poor

The notion of age of information (AoI) has become an important performance metric in network and control systems. Information freshness, represented by AoI, naturally arises in the context of caching. We address optimal scheduling of cache…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

As software may be used by multiple users, caching popular software at the wireless edge has been considered to save computation and communications resources for mobile edge computing (MEC). However, fetching uncached software from the core…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Wanli Wen , Ying Cui , Tony Q. S. Quek , Fu-Chun Zheng , Shi Jin

The proliferation of innovative mobile services such as augmented reality, networked gaming, and autonomous driving has spurred a growing need for low-latency access to computing resources that cannot be met solely by existing centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Konstantinos Poularakis , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Ian Taylor , Leandros Tassiulas

Content caching at the network edge has been considered an effective way of mitigating backhaul load and improving user experience. Caching efficiency can be enhanced by content recommendation and by keeping the information fresh. To the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan

The recent advance of edge computing technology enables significant sensing performance improvement of Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In particular, an edge server (ES) is responsible for gathering sensing data from distributed sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Huawei Hou , Suzhi Bi , Xian Li , Shuoyao Wang , Liping Qian , Zhi Quan

Recently, the integration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology has given rise to a new area called mobile edge generation and computing (MEGC), which offers mobile users heterogeneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Yinyu Wu , Xuhui Zhang , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables low-latency and high-bandwidth applications by bringing computation and data storage closer to end-users. Intelligent computing is an important application of MEC, where computing resources are used to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Jonathan Loo , Yapeng Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

The increasing demand for sensing, collecting, transmitting, and processing vast amounts of data poses significant challenges for resource-constrained mobile users, thereby impacting the performance of wireless networks. In this regard,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yaoqi Yang , Hongyang Du , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Abbas Jamalipour , Zhu Han

We consider a resource-constrained IoT network, where multiple users make on-demand requests to a cache-enabled edge node to send status updates about various random processes, each monitored by an energy harvesting sensor. The edge node…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Mohammad Hatami , Markus Leinonen , Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Marian Codreanu

With files proactively stored at base stations (BSs), mobile edge caching enables direct content delivery without remote file fetching, which can reduce the end-to-end delay while relieving backhaul pressure. To effectively utilize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Shan Zhang , Peter He , Katsuya Suto , Peng Yang , Lian Zhao , Xuemin , Shen

The demand for stringent interactive quality-of-service has intensified in both mobile edge computing (MEC) and cloud systems, driven by the imperative to improve user experiences. As a result, the processing of computation-intensive tasks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ngoc Hung Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Anh Tuan Nguyen , Nguyen Van Thieu , Hoang Nam Nguyen , Symeon Chatzinotas

Caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours by storing some content at the users' local caches. For the shared-link network with end-user-caches, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida

Mobile edge computing (MEC) networks bring computing and storage capabilities closer to edge devices, which reduces latency and improves network performance. However, to further reduce transmission and computation costs while satisfying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Xiangyu Gao , Yaping Sun , Hao Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Shuguang Cui

To support emerging real-time monitoring and control applications, the timeliness of computation results is of critical importance to mobile-edge computing (MEC) systems. We propose a performance metric called age of task (AoT) based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-29 Xianxin Song , Xiaoqi Qin , Yunzheng Tao , Baoling Liu , Ping Zhang

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has been envisioned as a promising paradigm to meet ever-increasing resource demands of mobile users, prolong battery lives of mobile devices, and shorten request response delays experienced by users. An MEC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Zhuang Wang , Weifa Liang , Meitian Huang , Yu Ma

In this paper, we present a novel mobile edge computing (MEC) model where the MEC server has the input and output data of all computation tasks and communicates with multiple caching-and-computing-enabled mobile devices via a shared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Hui Liu

In this paper, we study the problem of optimal scheduling of content placement along time in a base station with limited cache capacity, taking into account jointly the offloading effect and freshness of information. We model offloading…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Ghafour Ahani , Di Yuan