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Caching at mobile devices and leveraging device-to-device (D2D) communication are two promising approaches to support massive content delivery over wireless networks. The analysis of such D2D caching networks based on a physical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-15 Ramy Amer , Hesham Elsawy , M. Majid Butt , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Mehdi Bennis , Nicola Marchetti

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling Internet of Things (IoT) devices to handle computation-intensive jobs. Due to the imperfect parallelization of algorithms for job processing on servers and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chuanchao Gao , Niraj Kumar , Arvind Easwaran

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology is a promising solution to assist power-constrained IoT devices by providing additional computing resources for time-sensitive tasks. In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , Tamer Başar

Edge computing enables latency-critical applications to process data close to end devices, yet task heterogeneity and limited resources pose significant challenges to efficient orchestration. This paper presents a measurement-driven,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yongmin Zhang , Pengyu Huang , Mingyi Dong , Jing Yao

Caching of popular contents at cellular base stations, i.e., edge caching, in order to eliminate duplicate transmission through the backhaul can reduce the latency of data delivery in $5$G networks. However, since caching can only reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Tachporn Sanguanpuak , Sudarshan Guruacharya , Ekram Hossain , Dusit Niyato , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimizing the freshness of status updates that are sent from a large number of low-power source nodes to a common access point. The source nodes utilize carrier sensing to reduce collisions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Ahmed M. Bedewy , Yin Sun , Rahul Singh , Ness B. Shroff

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables web data caching in close geographic proximity to end users. Popular data can be cached on edge servers located less than hundreds of meters away from end users. This ensures bounded latency guarantees…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Bo Li , Qiang He , Feifei Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Athman Bouguettaya , Yun Yang

Hybrid networks consisting of MANET nodes and cellular infrastructure have been recently proposed to improve the performance of military networks. Prior work has demonstrated the benefits of in-network content caching in a wired, Internet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Mostafa Dehghan , Anand Seetharam , Ting He , Theodoros Salonidis , Jim Kurose , Don Towsley

Intelligent edge network is maturing to enable smart and efficient transportation systems. In this letter, we consider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted vehicular networks where UAVs provide caching and computing services in complement…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Nan Hu , Xiaoqi Qin , Nan Ma , Yiming Liu , Yuanyuan Yao , Ping Zhang

This paper proposes a novel joint computation and communication cooperation approach in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems, which enables user cooperation in both computation and communication for improving the MEC performance. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Xiaowen Cao , Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is expected to provide low-latency computation service for wireless devices (WDs). However, when WDs are located at cell edge or communication links between base stations (BSs) and WDs are blocked, the offloading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Nana Li , Wanming Hao , Fuhui Zhou , Shouyi Yang , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Motivated by the recent trend of integrating artificial intelligence into the Internet-of-Things (IoT), we consider the problem of scheduling packets from multiple sensing sources to a central controller over a wireless network. Here,…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Bin Li

We investigate the fundamental information theoretic limits of cache-aided wireless networks, in which edge nodes (or transmitters) are endowed with caches that can store popular content, such as multimedia files. This architecture aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Avik Sengupta , Ravi Tandon , Osvaldo Simeone

The freshness of information in real-time monitoring systems has received increasing attention, with Age of Information (AoI) emerging as a novel metric for measuring information freshness. In many applications, update packets need to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jianhang Zhu , Jie Gong

Age of Information is a newly introduced metric, getting vivid attention for measuring the freshness of information in real-time networks. This parameter has evolved to guarantee the reception of timely information from the latest status…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Devarpita Sinha , Rajarshi Roy

In this paper, the fundamental problem of distribution and proactive caching of computing tasks in fog networks is studied under latency and reliability constraints. In the proposed scenario, computing can be executed either locally at the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Mohammed S. Elbamby , Mehdi Bennis , Walid Saad

To overcome the limited coverage in traditional wireless sensor networks, \emph{mobile crowd sensing} (MCS) has emerged as a new sensing paradigm. To achieve longer battery lives of user devices and incentive human involvement, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Xiaoyang Li , Changsheng You , Sergey Andreev , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang

To overcome devices' limitations in performing computation-intense applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) enables users to offload tasks to proximal MEC servers for faster task computation. However, current MEC system design is based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

Next-generation mobile networks are expected to facilitate fast AI model downloading to end users. By caching models on edge servers, mobile networks can deliver models to end users with low latency, resulting in a paradigm of edge model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Guanqiao Qu , Zheng Lin , Qian Chen , Jian Li , Fangming Liu , Xianhao Chen , Kaibin Huang

This paper considers a wireless powered multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which a multi-antenna hybrid access point (AP) wirelessly charges multiple users, and each user relies on the harvested energy to execute computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Feng Wang , Hong Xing , Jie Xu