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An edge computing environment features multiple edge servers and multiple service clients. In this environment, mobile service providers can offload client-side computation tasks from service clients' devices onto edge servers to reduce…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Wei Du , Tao Lei , Qiang He , Wei Liu , Qiwang Lei , Hailiang Zhao , Wei Wang

This paper considers a practical mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where edge server does not pre-install the program required to perform user offloaded computing tasks. A partial program offloading (PPO) scheme is proposed, which can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Taizhou Yi , Guopeng Zhang , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang

In this paper, we consider a mobile edge computing system that provides computing services by cloud server and edge server collaboratively. The mobile edge computing can both reduce service delay and ease the load on the core network. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Qizhen Li

Both the Mobile edge computing (MEC)-based and fog computing (FC)-aided Internet of Vehicles (IoV) constitute promising paradigms of meeting the demands of low-latency pervasive computing. To this end, we construct a dynamic NOMA-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Dongsheng Zheng , Yingyang Chen , Lai Wei , Bingli Jiao , Lajos Hanzo

According to the pay-per-use model adopted in clouds, the more the resources consumed by an application running in a cloud computing environment, the greater the amount of money the owner of the corresponding application will be charged.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-28 Nikos Tziritas , Samee Ullah Khan , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Jue Hong

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) system is conceived, where each device's computational task can be divided into two parts for local computing and offloading to mobile edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Lajos Hanzo

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to liberate mobile devices from increasingly intensive computation workloads, as well as to improve the quality of computation experience. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Technological evolution of mobile user equipments (UEs), such as smartphones or laptops, goes hand-in-hand with evolution of new mobile applications. However, running computationally demanding applications at the UEs is constrained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Pavel Mach , Zdenek Becvar

Energy efficiency and security are two critical issues for mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. With stochastic task arrivals, time-varying dynamic environment, and passive existing attackers, it is very challenging to offload computation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Qun Wang , Han Hu , Haijian Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu

In this paper, we aim to address the challenge of hybrid mobile edge-quantum computing (MEQC) for sustainable task offloading scheduling in mobile networks. We develop cost-effective designs for both task offloading mode selection and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Ziqiang Ye , Yulan Gao , Yue Xiao , Minrui Xu , Han Yu , Dusit Niyato

In many practical sequential decision-making problems, tracking the state of the environment incurs a sensing/communication/computation cost. In these settings, the agent's interaction with its environment includes the additional component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Vansh Kapoor , Jayakrishnan Nair

We consider a hierarchical edge-cloud architecture in which services are provided to mobile users as chains of virtual network functions. Each service has specific computation requirements and target delay performance, which require placing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Itamar Cohen , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Paolo Giaccone , Gabriel Scalosub

Roadside units (RSUs), which have strong computing capability and are close to vehicle nodes, have been widely used to process delay- and computation-intensive tasks of vehicle nodes. However, due to their high mobility, vehicles may drive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Haipeng Wang , Tiejun Lv , Zhipeng Lin , Jie Zeng

This work considers a parallel task execution strategy in vehicular edge computing (VEC) networks, where edge servers are deployed along the roadside to process offloaded computational tasks of vehicular users. To minimize the overall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sungho Cho , Sung Il Choi , Seung Hyun Oh , Ian P. Roberts , Sang Hyun Lee

It is a big challenge for resource-limited mobile devices (MDs) to execute various complex and energy-consumed mobile applications. Fortunately, as a novel computing paradigm, edge computing (MEC) can provide abundant computing resources to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Binbin Huang , Zhongjin Lia , Peng Tang , Shangguang Wang , Jun Zhao , Haiyang Hua , Wanqing Lia , Victor Chang

In recent years, edge computing, as an important pillar for future networks, has been developed rapidly. Task offloading is a key part of edge computing that can provide computing resources for resource-constrained devices to run…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Liangjun Song , Gang Sun , Hongfang Yu , Mohsen Guizani

Edge Computing (EC) is about remodeling the way data is handled, processed, and delivered within a vast heterogeneous network. One of the fundamental concepts of EC is to push the data processing near the edge by exploiting front-end…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Raby Hamadi , Abdullah Khanfor , Hakim Ghazzai , Yehia Massoud

By offering shared computational facilities to which mobile devices can offload their computational tasks, the mobile edge computing framework is expanding the scope of applications that can be provided on resource-constrained devices. When…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mahsa Salmani , Timothy N. Davidson

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

We consider a simple computation offloading model where jobs can either be fully processed in the cloud or be partially processed at a local server before being sent to the cloud to complete processing. Our goal is to design a policy for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Darin Jeff , Eytan Modiano