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Age of Information (AoI) has recently received much attention due to its relevance in IoT sensing and monitoring applications. In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the AoI in a system in which a set of sources are observed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm enabling vehicles to handle computation-intensive and time-sensitive applications for intelligent transportation. Due to the limited resources in MEC, effective resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Chuanchao Gao , Arvind Easwaran

As an emerging metric for the timeliness of information delivery, Age-of-Information (AoI) raises a special interest in the research area of tolerance-critical communications, wherein sufficiently short blocklength is usually adopted as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Zhiyuan Jiang , Yao Zhu , Hans D. Schotten

In this paper, a multi-vehicle multi-task nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system with passive eavesdropping vehicles is investigated. To heighten the performance of edge vehicles, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Ling He , Miaowen Wen , Yingyang Chen , Bingli Jiao

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables rich services in close proximity to the end users to provide high quality of experience (QoE) and contributes to energy conservation compared with local computing, but results in increased communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mingxiong Zhao , Jun-Jie Yu , Wen-Tao Li , Di Liu , Shaowen Yao , Wei Feng , Changyang She , Tony Q. S. Quek

As an emerging computing paradigm, mobile edge computing (MEC) provides processing capabilities at the network edge, aiming to reduce latency and improve user experience. Meanwhile, the advancement of containerization technology facilitates…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Xinlei Ge , Yang Li , Xing Zhang , Yukun Sun , Yunji Zhao

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

This paper investigates an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based mobile-edge computing (MEC) network. Our objective is to minimize a linear combination of the completion time of all users' tasks and the total energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Zhaohui Yang , Cunhua Pan , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Driven by the emergence of new compute-intensive applications and the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is foreseen that the emerging 5G network will face an unprecedented increase in traffic volume and computation demands.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Quoc-Viet Pham , Fang Fang , Vu Nguyen Ha , Md. Jalil Piran , Mai Le , Long Bao Le , Won-Joo Hwang , Zhiguo Ding

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 2016-04-12 Changsheng You , Kaibin Huang

The widespread adoption of edge computing has emerged as a prominent trend for alleviating task processing delays and reducing energy consumption. However, the dynamic nature of network conditions and the varying computation capacities of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Lin Wang , Jingjing Zhang

This paper focuses on the information freshness of finite-state Markov sources, using the uncertainty of information (UoI) as the performance metric. Measured by Shannon's entropy, UoI can capture not only the transition dynamics of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Gongpu Chen , Soung Chang Liew

Meta Computing is a new computing paradigm, which aims to solve the problem of computing islands in current edge computing paradigms and integrate all the resources on a network by incorporating cloud, edge, and particularly terminal-end…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yandi Li , Jianxiong Guo , Yupeng Li , Tian Wang , Weijia Jia

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables low-latency applications by bringing computation closer to the user, but dynamic task arrivals and communication threats like jamming complicate reliable task offloading and resource allocation. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ghazal Asemian , Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci

We consider a scenario that utilizes road side units (RSUs) as distributed caches in connected vehicular networks. The goal of the use of caches in our scenario is for rapidly providing contents to connected vehicles under various traffic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Soohyun Park , Soyi Jung , Minseok Choi , Joongheon Kim

Restless multi-armed bandits (RMABs) provide a scalable framework for sequential decision-making under uncertainty, but classical formulations assume binary actions and a single global budget. Real-world settings, such as healthcare, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Himadri S. Pandey , Kai Wang , Gian-Gabriel P. Garcia

In compute-first networking, maintaining fresh and accurate status information at the network edge is crucial for effective access to remote services. This process typically involves three phases: Status updating, user accessing, and user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Haosheng He , Jianpeng Qi , Chao Liu , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

There is a growing interest in analysing the freshness of data in networked systems. Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a popular metric to quantify this freshness at a given destination. There has been a significant research effort in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jaya Prakash Champati , Ramana R. Avula , Tobias J. Oechtering , James Gross

Real-time video analytics services aim to provide users with accurate recognition results timely. However, existing studies usually fall into the dilemma between reducing delay and improving accuracy. The edge computing scenario imposes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Xishuo Li , Shan Zhang , Yuejiao Huang , Xiao Ma , Zhiyuan Wang , Hongbin Luo

Ocean exploration places high demands on autonomous underwater vehicles, especially when there's observation delay. We propose age of information optimized Markov decision process (AoI-MDP) to enhance underwater tasks by modeling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yimian Ding , Jingzehua Xu , Yiyuan Yang , Guanwen Xie , Xinqi Wang , Shuai Zhang