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With the fast development of mobile edge computing (MEC), there is an increasing demand for running complex applications on the edge. These complex applications can be represented as workflows where task dependencies are explicitly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xuejun Li , Tianxiang Chen , Dong Yuan , Jia Xu , Xiao Liu

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising approach to deal with explosive computation requirements by enabling cloud computing capabilities at the edge of networks. Existing models of MEC impose some strong assumptions on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Tao Deng , Zhanwei Yu , Di Yuan

This letter studies an ultra-reliable low latency communication problem focusing on a vehicular edge computing network in which vehicles either fetch and synthesize images recorded by surveillance cameras or acquire the synthesized image…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Sadeep Batewela , Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , Himal A. Suraweera , Choong Seon Hong

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers low-latency and high-bandwidth support for Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) applications. However, due to high vehicle mobility and finite communication coverage of base stations, it is hard to maintain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Zheyi Chen , Sijin Huang , Geyong Min , Zhaolong Ning , Jie Li , Yan Zhang

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

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jianhui Liu , Qi Zhang

Semantic Communication (SC) combined with Vehicular edge computing (VEC) provides an efficient edge task processing paradigm for Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Focusing on highway scenarios, this paper proposes a Tripartite Cooperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jingbo Zhang , Maoxin Ji , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Kezhi Wang , Wen Chen

Given the limited computing capabilities on autonomous vehicles, onboard processing of large volumes of latency-sensitive tasks presents significant challenges. While vehicular edge computing (VEC) has emerged as a solution, offloading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yanan Ma , Zhengru Fang , Longzhi Yuan , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

In this paper, we focus on improving autonomous driving safety via task offloading from cellular vehicles (CVs), using vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) links, to an multi-access edge computing (MEC) server. Considering that the frequencies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Bo Yang , Xueyao Zhang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yan Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

This paper studies a wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system with device-to-device (D2D)-enabled task offloading. In this system, a set of distributed multi-antenna energy transmitters (ETs) use collaborative energy beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Dixiao Wu , Feng Wang , Xiaowen Cao , Jie Xu

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is one of the enabling technologies for high-performance computing at the edge of the 6 G networks, supporting high data rates and ultra-low service latency. Although MEC is a remedy to meet the growing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ummy Habiba , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

Internet of Things (IoT) systems require highly scalable infrastructure to adaptively provide services to meet various performance requirements. Combining Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with Mobile Edge Cloud (MEC) technology brings more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Beiran Chen , Marco Ruffini

Resource allocation has a direct and profound impact on the performance of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks. Considering the dynamic nature of vehicular environments, it is appealing to devise a decentralized strategy to perform…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Liang Wang , Hao Ye , Le Liang , Geoffrey Ye Li

New paradigm shifts and 6G technological revolution in vehicular services have emerged toward unmanned driving, automated transportation, and self-driving vehicles. As the technology for autonomous vehicles becomes mature, real challenges…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Shih-Chun Lin , Kwang-Cheng Chen , Ali Karimoddini

In this paper, a novel proximity and load-aware resource allocation for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is proposed. The proposed approach exploits the spatio-temporal traffic patterns, in terms of load and vehicles' physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Muhammad Ikram Ashraf , Mehdi Bennis , Cristina Perfecto , Walid Saad

Containers are used by an increasing number of Internet service providers to deploy their applications in multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems. Although container-based virtualization technologies significantly increase application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Ao Liu , Shaoshi Yang , Jingsheng Tan , Zongze Liang , Jiasen Sun , Tao Wen , Hongyan Yan

This paper considers a wireless powered multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where a multi-antenna access point (AP) employs the radio-frequency (RF) signal based wireless power transfer (WPT) to charge a number of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Feng Wang , Hong Xing , Jie Xu

In this paper, we investigate a mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture with the assistance of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV acts as a computing server to help the user equipment (UEs) compute their tasks as well as a relay to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-10 Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang , Zhongbin Zheng

The increasing complexity of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has led to significant interest in computational offloading to external infrastructures such as edge servers, vehicular nodes, and UAVs. These dynamic and heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ashab Uddin , Ahmed Hamdi Sakr , Ning Zhang

This paper investigates distributed processing in Vehicular Edge Cloud (VECs), where a group of vehicles in a car park, at a charging station or at a road traffic intersection, cluster and form a temporary vehicular cloud by combining their…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Amal A. Alahmadi , T. E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

This paper studies the problem of securing task offloading transmissions from ground users against ground eavesdropping threats. Our study introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mobile edge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Vuk Marojevic