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Resource allocation is investigated for offloading computational-intensive tasks in multi-hop mobile edge computing (MEC) system. The envisioned system has both the cooperative access points (AP) with the computing capability and the MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Md. Zoheb Hassan , Md. Jahangir Hossain

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) enable powerful cross-modal reasoning capabilities but impose substantial computational and latency burdens, posing critical challenges for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zheming Yang , Qi Guo , Jun Wan , Jiarui Ruan , Yunqing Hu , Chang Zhao , Xiangyang Li

The next generation of mobile networks, namely 5G, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have brought a large number of delay sensitive services. In this context Cloud services are migrating to the edge of the networks to reduce latency. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Nader Daneshfar , Nikolaos Pappas , Valentin Polishchuk , Vangelis Angelakis

Fog computing extends the cloud to the edge of the network, close to the end-users enabling the deployment of some application component in the fog while others in the cloud. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) decouples the network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Seyedeh Negar Afrasiabi , Somayeh Kianpisheh , Carla Mouradian , Roch H. Glitho , Ashok Moghe

The demand for MEC has increased with the rise of data-intensive applications and 5G networks, while conventional cloud models struggle to satisfy low-latency requirements. While task offloading is crucial for minimizing latency on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Parisa Fard Moshiri , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci

In multi-tiered fog computing systems, to accelerate the processing of computation-intensive tasks for real-time IoT applications, resource-limited IoT devices can offload part of their workloads to nearby fog nodes, whereafter such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Xin Gao , Xi Huang , Simeng Bian , Ziyu Shao , Yang Yang

Fog computing is a promising computing paradigm in which IoT data can be processed near the edge to support time-sensitive applications. However, the availability of the resources in the computation device is not stable since they may not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Ranesh Kumar Naha , Saurabh Garg

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

Smart mobility management would be an important prerequisite for future fog computing systems. In this research, we propose a learning-based handover optimization for the Internet of Vehicles that would assist the smooth transition of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Salman Memon , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology that provides cloud and IT services within the proximity of the mobile user. With the increasing number of mobile applications, mobile devices (MD) encounter limitations of their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Mahla Rahati-Quchani , Saeid Abrishami , Mehdi Feizi

Task offloading is a promising technology to exploit the benefits of fog computing. An effective task offloading strategy is needed to utilize the computational resources efficiently. In this paper, we endeavor to seek an online task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Zhaowei Zhu , Ting Liu , Shengda Jin , Xiliang Luo

Mobile edge computing (a.k.a. fog computing) has recently emerged to enable \emph{in-situ} processing of delay-sensitive applications at the edge of mobile networks. Providing grid power supply in support of mobile edge computing, however,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Jie Xu , Shaolei Ren

In this article, we consider the problem of relay assisted computation offloading (RACO), in which user A aims to share the results of computational tasks with another user B through wireless exchange over a relay platform equipped with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xihan Chen , Yunlong Cai , Qingjiang Shi , Min-Jian Zhao , Benoit Champage , Lajos Hanzo

Multi-tier computing can enhance the task computation by multi-tier computing nodes. In this paper, we propose a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aided computing system by deploying multi-tier computing nodes to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Kunlun Wang , Dusit Niyato , Wen Chen , Arumugam Nallanathan

The development of mobile services has impacted a variety of computation-intensive and time-sensitive applications, such as recommendation systems and daily payment methods. However, computing task competition involving limited resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Honghao Gao , Xuejie Wang , Xiaojin Ma , Wei Wei , Shahid Mumtaz

Mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) offloads intensive mobile computation to clouds located at the edges of cellular networks. Thereby, MECO is envisioned as a promising technique for prolonging the battery lives and enhancing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang , Hyukjin Chae , Byoung-Hoon Kim

The surge in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and data generation highlights the limitations of traditional cloud computing in meeting demands for immediacy, Quality of Service, and location-aware services. Fog computing emerges as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Amir Pakmehr

With the high flexibility of supporting resource-intensive and time-sensitive applications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed as an innovational paradigm to support the mobile users (MUs). As a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Wenshuai Liu , Bin Li , Wancheng Xie , Yueyue Dai , Zesong Fei

Fog computing emerged as a crucial platform for the deployment of IoT applications. The complexity of such applications requires methods that handle the resource diversity and network structure of Fog devices while maximizing the service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Zahra Najafabadi Samani , Nishant Saurabh , Radu Prodan

Vehicular fog computing (VFC) has emerged as a promising paradigm, which leverages the idle computational resources of nearby fog vehicles (FVs) to complement the computing capabilities of conventional vehicular edge computing. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Geng Sun , Siyi Chen , Zemin Sun , Long He , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Dong In Kim