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The combination of 5G and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) can significantly reduce application delay by lowering transmission delay and bringing computational capabilities closer to the end user. Therefore, 5G MEC could enable excellent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Pengyuan Zhou , Shuhao Fu , Benjamin Finley , Xuebing Li , Sasu Tarkoma , Jussi Kangasharju , Mostafa Ammar , Pan Hui

As a key technology in the 5G era, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has developed rapidly in recent years. MEC aims to reduce the service delay of mobile users, while alleviating the processing pressure on the core network. MEC can be regarded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Minxian Xu , Qiheng Zhou , Huaming Wu , Weiwei Lin , Kejiang Ye , Chengzhong Xu

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is commonly recognized as a key supporting technology for the emerging 5G systems. When deployed in fully virtualized networks, i.e., following the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm, it will…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Miltiades C. Filippou , Dario Sabella , Vincenzo Riccobene

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) reduces the computational burden on terminal devices by shortening the distance between these devices and computing nodes. Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with enhanced MEC networks can leverage the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhiying Wang , Tianxi Wei , Gang Sun , Xinyue Liu , Hongfang Yu , Dusit Niyato

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) emerges as an essential part of the upcoming Fifth Generation (5G) and future beyond-5G mobile communication systems. It adds computational power towards the edge of cellular networks, much closer to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Bin Han , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Yihua Xu , Di Feng , Hans D. Schotten

In this work, we propose a cross-layer framework for optimizing user association, packet offloading rates, and bandwidth allocation for Mission-Critical Internet-of-Things (MC-IoT) services with short packets in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Changyang She , Yifan Duan , Guodong Zhao , Tony Q. S. Quek , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a new paradigm that provides cloud computing services at the edge of networks. To achieve better performance with limited computing resources, peer offloading between cooperative edge servers (e.g. MEC-…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Xingqiu He , Sheng Wang

To improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices, mobile-edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm by providing computing capabilities within radio access networks in close proximity. Nevertheless, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xianfu Chen , Honggang Zhang , Celimuge Wu , Shiwen Mao , Yusheng Ji , Mehdi Bennis

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is expected to be an effective solution to deliver 360-degree virtual reality (VR) videos over wireless networks. In contrast to previous computation-constrained MEC framework, which reduces the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Xiao Yang , Zhiyong Chen , Kuikui Li , Yaping Sun , Hongming Zheng

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables rich services in close proximity to the end users to provide high quality of experience (QoE) and contributes to energy conservation compared with local computing, but results in increased communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mingxiong Zhao , Jun-Jie Yu , Wen-Tao Li , Di Liu , Shaowen Yao , Wei Feng , Changyang She , Tony Q. S. Quek

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is an emerging technology for enhancing the computational capabilities of mobile devices and reducing their energy consumption via offloading complex computation tasks to the nearby servers. Multiuser MEC at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Zezu Liang , Yuan Liu , Tat-Ming Lok , Kaibin Huang

For multiple Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles (UAVs) assisted Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) networks, we study the problem of combined computation and communication for user equipments deployed with multi-type tasks. Specifically, we consider that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Bin Li , Rongrong Yang , Lei Liu , Junyi Wang , Ning Zhang , Mianxiong Dong

With the emergence of diverse mobile applications (such as augmented reality), the quality of experience of mobile users is greatly limited by their computation capacity and finite battery lifetime. Mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-13 Fuhui Zhou , Yongpeng Wu , Haijian Sun , Zheng Chu

Improving efficiency of healthcare systems is a top national interest worldwide. However, the need of delivering scalable healthcare services to the patients while reducing costs is a challenging issue. Among the most promising approaches…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Amr Mohamed , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Mounira Tlili , Aiman Erbad

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is an essential technology for the fifth generation (5G) of mobile networks. MEC enables low-latency services by bringing computing resources close to the end-users. The integration of 5G and MEC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Thilina Pathirana , Gianfranco Nencioni , Ruxandra F. Olimid

To support the growing demand for data-intensive and low-latency IoT applications, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is emerging as an effective edge-computing approach enabling the execution of delay-sensitive processing tasks close to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Simone Bolettieri , Raffaele Bruno , Enzo Mingozzi

Two enablers of the 5th Generation (5G) of mobile communication systems are the high data rates achievable with millimeter-wave radio signals and the cloudification of the network's mobile edge, made possible also by Multi-access Edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Nicola di Pietro , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa

Multi-connectivity (MCo) is considered to be a key strategy for enabling reliable transmissions and enhanced data rates in fifth-generation mobile networks, as it provides multiple links from source to destination. In this work, we quantify…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Albrecht Wolf , Philipp Schulz , Meik Dörpinghaus , José Cândido Silveira Santos Filho , Gerhard Fettweis

The routing algorithms used by current operators aim at coping with the demanded QoS requirements while optimizing the use of their network resources. These algorithms rely on the optimal substructure property (OSP), which states that an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Amaury Van Bemten , Jochen W. Guck , Carmen Mas Machuca , Wolfgang Kellerer

In the evolving landscape of mobile edge computing (MEC), enhancing communication reliability and computation efficiency to support increasingly stringent low-latency services remains a fundamental challenge. Rotatable antenna (RA) is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qiyao Wang , Beixiong Zheng , Xue Xiong , Weidong Mei , Changsheng You , Qingqing Wu , Jie Tang