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The vast data deluge at the network's edge is raising multiple challenges for the edge computing community. One of them is identifying edge storage servers where data from edge devices/sensors have to be stored to ensure low latency access…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-10 N. Sreekumar , A. Chandra , J. B. Weissman

Edge computing hosts applications close to the end users and enables low-latency real-time applications. Modern applications inturn have adopted the microservices architecture which composes applications as loosely coupled smaller…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Dhruv Garg , Nanjangud C. Narendra , Selome Tesfatsion

Shared e-mobility services have been widely tested and piloted in cities across the globe, and already woven into the fabric of modern urban planning. This paper studies a practical yet important problem in those systems: how to deploy and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Man Luo , Bowen Du , Konstantin Klemmer , Hongming Zhu , Hongkai Wen

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising approach to deal with explosive computation requirements by enabling cloud computing capabilities at the edge of networks. Existing models of MEC impose some strong assumptions on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Tao Deng , Zhanwei Yu , Di Yuan

We study an edge demand response problem where, based on historical edge workload demands, an edge provider needs to dispatch moving computing units, e.g. truck-carried modular data centers, in response to emerging hotspots within service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Fangtong Zhou , Ruozhou Yu

Edge computing is an emerging concept based on distributing computing, storage, and control services closer to end network nodes. Edge computing lies at the heart of the fifth generation (5G) wireless systems and beyond. While current…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Mohammed S. Elbamby , Cristina Perfecto , Chen-Feng Liu , Jihong Park , Sumudu Samarakoon , Xianfu Chen , Mehdi Bennis

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) emerges as a promising paradigm to improve the quality of computation experience for mobile devices. Nevertheless, the design of computation task scheduling policies for MEC systems inevitably encounters a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Juan Liu , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Mobile edge computing (MEC) emerges as a promising solution for servicing delay-sensitive tasks at the edge network. A body of recent literature started to focus on cost-efficient service placement and request scheduling. This work…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Lina Su , Ne Wang , Ruiting Zhou , Zongpeng Li

Next-generation cellular networks will play a key role in the evolution of different vertical industries. Low latency will be a major requirement in many related uses cases. This requirement is specially challenging in scenarios with high…

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

As a key technology in the 5G era, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has developed rapidly in recent years. MEC aims to reduce the service delay of mobile users, while alleviating the processing pressure on the core network. MEC can be regarded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Minxian Xu , Qiheng Zhou , Huaming Wu , Weiwei Lin , Kejiang Ye , Chengzhong Xu

Edge computing is the practice of placing computing resources at the edges of the Internet in close proximity to devices and information sources. This, much like a cache on a CPU, increases bandwidth and reduces latency for applications but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Paul Wood , Heng Zhang , Muhammad-Bilal Siddiqui , Saurabh Bagchi

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a key player in low latency 5G networks with the task to resolve the conflict between computationally-intensive mobile applications and resource-limited mobile devices (MDs). As such, there has been intense…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Yao Shi , Emad Alsusa , Mohammed W. Baidas

Serverless computing adopts a pay-as-you-go billing model where applications are executed in stateless and shortlived containers triggered by events, resulting in a reduction of monetary costs and resource utilization. However, existing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Chen Chen , Peiyuan Guan , Ziru Chen , Amir Taherkordi , Fen Hou , Lin X. Cai

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is booming as a promising paradigm to push the computation and communication resources from cloud to the network edge to provide services and to perform computations. With container technologies, mobile…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Hailiang Zhao , Shuiguang Deng , Zijie Liu , Jianwei Yin , Schahram Dustdar

Merging mobile edge computing with the dense deployment of small cell base stations promises enormous benefits such as a real proximity, ultra-low latency access to cloud functionalities. However, the envisioned integration creates many new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Jie Xu , Yuxuan Sun , Lixing Chen , Sheng Zhou

Computation offloading is indispensable for mobile edge computing (MEC). It uses edge resources to enable intensive computations and save energy for resource-constrained devices. Existing works generally impose strong assumptions on radio…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Tianxi Ji , Changqing Luo , Lixing Yu , Qianlong Wang , Siheng Chen , Arun Thapa , Pan Li

As users in small cell networks increasingly rely on computation-intensive services, cloud-based access often results in high latency. Multi-access edge computing (MEC) mitigates this by bringing computational resources closer to end users,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Mariam Yahya , Aydin Sezgin , Setareh Maghsudi

In this paper, we consider a goal-oriented communication problem for edge server monitoring, where jobs arrive intermittently at multiple dispatchers and must be assigned to shared edge servers with finite queues and time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Samuel Chamoun , Christian McDowell , Robin Buchanan , Kevin Chan , Eric Graves , Yin Sun