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In the realm of emerging real-time networked applications such as cyber-physical systems (CPS), the Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a pivotal metric for evaluating timeliness. To meet the high computational demands, such as those in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Lyudong Jin , Ming Tang , Jiayu Pan , Meng Zhang , Hao Wang

In this paper, we investigate the scheduling design of a mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where active mobile devices with computation tasks randomly appear in a cell. Every task can be computed at either the mobile device or the MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Shanfeng Huang , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang , Kaibin Huang

Leveraging recent advances on mobile edge computing (MEC), edge intelligence has emerged as a promising paradigm to support mobile artificial intelligence (AI) applications at the network edge. In this paper, we consider the AI service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Zehong Lin , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

There is a surge of need for fresh information with the overwhelming proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. To characterize the information freshness perceived by the destination, the age of information (AoI) has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xijun Wang , Shuying Gan , Yanzhi Huang , Xiaoyu Zhao , Chao Xu , Xiang Chen

To mitigate computational power gap between the network core and edges, mobile edge computing (MEC) is poised to play a fundamental role in future generations of wireless networks. In this letter, we consider a non-orthogonal multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Vaibhav Kumar , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology in the 5G era. It is deemed an effective paradigm to support computation-intensive and delay critical applications even at energy-constrained and computation-limited…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Han Hu , Weiwei Song , Qun Wang , Rose Qingyang Hu , Hongbo Zhu

The age of information (AoI) performance analysis is essential for evaluating the information freshness in the large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) networks. This work proposes the earliest analysis of the mean AoI (MAoI) performance of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Ying Dong , Hang Xiao , Haonan Hu , Jiliang Zhang , Qianbin Chen , Jie Zhang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising approach for enhancing the quality-of-service (QoS) of AI-enabled applications in the B5G/6G era, by bringing computation capability closer to end-users at the network edge. In this work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Huaizhe Liu , Jiaqi Wu , Zhizongkai Wang , Bin Cao , Lin Gao

We consider the problem of intelligent and efficient task allocation mechanism in large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC), which can reduce delay and energy consumption in a parallel and distributed optimization. In this paper, we study the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaoxiong Zhong , Xinghan Wang , Yuanyuan Yang , Yang Qin , Xiaoke Ma , Tingting Yang

Modern sensing systems generate heterogeneous updates ranging from small status packets to large data objects. We study a single-hop wireless uplink network where sensors generate updates at will, each consisting of a sensor dependent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aniket Mukherjee , Joy Kuri , Chandramani Singh

Driven by great demands on low-latency services of the edge devices (EDs), mobile edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to enable the computing capacities at the edge of the radio access network. However, conventional MEC servers suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-29 Pengfei Wang , Zijie Zheng , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

We design efficient online scheduling policies to maximize the freshness of information delivered to the users in a cellular network under both adversarial and stochastic channel and mobility assumptions. The information freshness achieved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Abhishek Sinha , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee

The freshness or timeliness of data at server is a significant key performance indicator of sensor networks, especially in tolerance critical applications such as factory automation. As an effective and intuitive measurement to data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Zhiyuan Jiang , Yulin hu , Hans D. Schotten

Mobile edge computing (MEC) enhances the performance of 5G networks by enabling low-latency, high-speed services through deploying data units of the base station on edge servers located near mobile users. However, determining the optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yunyi Wu , Yongbing Zhang

We consider the problem of task offloading in multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems constituting $N$ devices assisted by an edge server (ES), where the devices can split task execution between a local processor and the ES. Since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , Tamer Başar

In this paper, we investigate the scheduling design of a mobile-edge computing (MEC) system, where the random arrival of mobile devices with computation tasks in both spatial and temporal domains is considered. The binary computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Shanfeng Huang , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang

The rapid growth of mobile devices and the increasing complexity of tasks have made energy efficiency a critical challenge in Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) systems. This paper explores energy-efficient offloading strategies in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ling Hou , Shi Li , Zhishu Shen , Jing Fu , Jingjin Wu , Jiong Jin

Age-of-Information (AoI) is a performance metric for scheduling systems that measures the freshness of the data available at the intended destination. AoI is formally defined as the time elapsed since the destination received the recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Archiki Prasad , Vishal Jain , Sharayu Moharir

As Internet of Things (IoT) systems scale and device heterogeneity grows, multimodal data have become ubiquitous. Meanwhile, evaluating the freshness of multimodal data is essential, as stale updates would delay task execution, degrade…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ying Liu , Yifan Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Chao Yang , Kandaraj Piamrat , Stephan Sigg , Zheng Changr , Yusheng Ji

In this paper, a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which the IoT devices are scheduled to sample underlying physical processes and send the status updates to a common destination. In a real-world IoT, due…

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