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Cloud computing is a reliable solution to provide distributed computation power. However, real-time response is still challenging regarding the enormous amount of data generated by the IoT devices in 5G and 6G networks. Thus, multi-access…

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Wireless network optimization has been becoming very challenging as the problem size and complexity increase tremendously, due to close couplings among network entities with heterogeneous service and resource requirements. By continuously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Shimin Gong , Yutong Xie , Jing Xu , Dusit Niyato , Ying-Chang Liang

By allowing a mobile device to offload computation-intensive tasks to a base station, mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for saving the mobile device's energy. In real applications, the offloading may span multiple fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Rongfei Fan , Fudong Li , Song Jin , Gongpu Wang , Hai Jiang , Shaohua Wu

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) and network function virtualization (NFV) are promising technologies to support emerging IoT applications, especially those computation-intensive. In NFV-enabled MEC environment, service function chain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Xinhan Wang , Huanlai Xing , Fuhong Song , Shouxi Luo , Penglin Dai , Bowen Zhao

Owing to the resource-constrained feature of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, offloading tasks from IoT devices to the nearby mobile edge computing (MEC) servers can not only save the energy of IoT devices but also reduce the response time…

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To overcome devices' limitations in performing computation-intense applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) enables users to offload tasks to proximal MEC servers for faster task computation. However, current MEC system design is based on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

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

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Jie Xu , Lixing Chen , Shaolei Ren

In edge computing systems, autonomous agents must make fast local decisions while competing for shared resources. Existing MARL methods often resume to centralized critics or frequent communication, which fail under limited observability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Andrea Fox , Francesco De Pellegrini , Eitan Altman

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

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) pushes computing functionalities away from the centralized cloud to the network edge, thereby meeting the latency requirements of many emerging mobile applications and saving backhaul network bandwidth. Although…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Jie Xu , Lixing Chen , Pan Zhou

Recently, there has been an explosion of mobile applications that perform computationally intensive tasks such as video streaming, data mining, virtual reality, augmented reality, image processing, video processing, face recognition, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Tesfay Zemuy Gebrekidan , Sebastian Stein , Timothy J. Norman

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is one of the promising solutions to process computational-intensive tasks for the emerging time-critical Internet-of-Things (IoT) use cases, e.g., virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), autonomous…

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Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) excels at handling rapidly changing preferences in tasks that involve multiple criteria, even for unseen preferences. However, previous dominating MORL methods typically generate a fixed policy…

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Mobile-edge computing (MEC) enhances the capacities and features of mobile devices by offloading computation-intensive tasks over wireless networks to edge servers. One challenge faced by the deployment of MEC in cellular networks is to…

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Exploiting quantum computing at the mobile edge holds immense potential for facilitating large-scale network design, processing multimodal data, optimizing resource management, and enhancing network security. In this paper, we propose a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Mingzhe Chen , Dong In Kim , Xuemin , Shen

Computation offloading has become a popular solution to support computationally intensive and latency-sensitive applications by transferring computing tasks to mobile edge servers (MESs) for execution, which is known as mobile/multi-access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a promising solution for providing the computational resources and low latency required by vehicular services such as autonomous driving. It enables cars to offload computationally intensive tasks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paniz Parastar , Giuseppe Caso , Jesus Alberto Omana Iglesias , Andra Lutu , Ozgu Alay

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,…

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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) broadens the scope of computation and storage beyond the central network, incorporating edge nodes close to end devices. This expansion facilitates the implementation of large-scale "connected things" within edge…

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