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Future networks (including 6G) are poised to accelerate the realisation of Internet of Everything. However, it will result in a high demand for computing resources to support new services. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yuelin Liu , Haiyuan Li , Xenofon Vasilakos , Rasheed Hussain , Dimitra Simeonidou

This paper investigates task-oriented communication for multi-device cooperative edge inference, where a group of distributed low-end edge devices transmit the extracted features of local samples to a powerful edge server for inference.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

A growing number of critical workflow applications leverage a streamlined edge-hub-cloud architecture, which diverges from the conventional edge computing paradigm. An edge device, in collaboration with a hub device and a cloud server,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Andreas Kouloumpris , Georgios L. Stavrinides , Maria K. Michael , Theocharis Theocharides

Edge intelligence (EI) allows resource-constrained edge devices (EDs) to offload computation-intensive AI tasks (e.g., visual object detection) to edge servers (ESs) for fast execution. However, transmitting high-volume raw task data (e.g.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xian Li , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides low-latency offloading solutions for computationally intensive tasks, effectively improving the computing efficiency and battery life of mobile devices. However, for data-intensive tasks or scenarios…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xuyang Chen , Daquan Feng , Wei Jiang , Qu Luo , Gaojie Chen , Yao Sun

Executing machine learning inference tasks on resource-constrained edge devices requires careful hardware-software co-design optimizations. Recent examples have shown how transformer-based deep neural network models such as ALBERT can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zirui Fu , Aleksandre Avaliani , Marco Donato

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) often collaborate by collecting and offloading sensing streams to an edge server, where a deep neural network (DNN) model performs cross-stream alignment, fusion, and inference. However, the coupling between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Yanan Du , Sai Xu , Yinbo Yu

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been increasingly used in our everyday lives as well as in numerous industrial applications. However, due to limitations in computing and power capabilities, IoT devices need to send their respective tasks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ziad Qais Al Abbasi , Khaled M. Rabie , Senior Member , Xingwang Li , Senior Member , Wali Ullah Khan , Asma Abu Samah

Upon the significant performance of the supervised deep neural networks, conventional procedures of developing ML system are \textit{task-centric}, which aims to maximize the task accuracy. However, we scrutinized this \textit{task-centric}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Kyung Ho Park , Hyunhee Chung , Soonwoo Kwon

The widespread adoption of large artificial intelligence (AI) models has enabled numerous applications of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, large AI models require substantial computational and memory resources, which exceed the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dailin Yang , Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables the provision of high-reliability and low-latency applications by offering computation and storage resources in close proximity to end-users. Different from traditional computation task offloading in MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Yuanpeng Zheng , Tiankui Zhang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Rong Huang

The empowering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively used in providing intelligence such as target tracking. In our field experiments, a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) is deployed at the UAV to identify a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Chau Yuen , Lijun Qian

With the emergence of edge computing, the problem of offloading jobs between an Edge Device (ED) and an Edge Server (ES) received significant attention in the past. Motivated by the fact that an increasing number of applications are using…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Andrea Fresa , Jaya Prakash Champati

Incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) in the Internet of Things (IoT) enables resource-limited IoT devices to offload their computation tasks to a nearby edge server. In this paper, we investigate an IoT system assisted by the MEC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Xuming An , Rongfei Fan , Han Hu , Ning Zhang , Saman Atapattu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

We investigate the problem of computation offloading in a mobile edge computing architecture, where multiple energy-constrained users compete to offload their computational tasks to multiple servers through a shared wireless medium. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Navid Naderializadeh , Morteza Hashemi

Opportunistic computation offloading is an effective method to improve the computation performance of mobile-edge computing (MEC) networks under dynamic edge environment. In this paper, we consider a multi-user MEC network with time-varying…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Suzhi Bi , Liang Huang , Hui Wang , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

The high computational complexity and energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms hinder their application in augmented reality (AR) systems. However, mobile edge computing (MEC) makes it possible to solve this problem.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Guangjin Pan , Heng Zhang , Shugong Xu , Shunqing Zhang , Xiaojing Chen

Deep-learning-based intelligent services have become prevalent in cyber-physical applications including smart cities and health-care. Collaborative end-edge-cloud computing for deep learning provides a range of performance and efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Sina Shahhosseini , Tianyi Hu , Dongjoo Seo , Anil Kanduri , Bryan Donyanavard , Amir M. Rahmani , Nikil Dutt

To support on-device inference, the next-generation mobile networks are expected to support real-time model downloading services to mobile users. However, powerful AI models typically have large model sizes, resulting in excessive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Guanqiao Qu , Tao Li , Qian Chen , Xianhao Chen , Sheng Zhou

In this paper, we propose a novel joint task offloading and user scheduling (JTO-US) framework for 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) systems under security threats from jamming attacks. The goal is to minimize the delay and the ratio of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci , Claude D'Amours , Melike Erol-Kantarci