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Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology for enhancing the computation capacities and features of mobile users by offloading complex computation tasks to the edge servers. However, mobility poses great challenges on delivering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zezu Liang , Yuan Liu , Tat-Ming Lok , Kaibin Huang

With the fast development of mobile edge computing (MEC), there is an increasing demand for running complex applications on the edge. These complex applications can be represented as workflows where task dependencies are explicitly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xuejun Li , Tianxiang Chen , Dong Yuan , Jia Xu , Xiao Liu

Edge computing enables latency-critical applications to process data close to end devices, yet task heterogeneity and limited resources pose significant challenges to efficient orchestration. This paper presents a measurement-driven,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yongmin Zhang , Pengyu Huang , Mingyi Dong , Jing Yao

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is one of the enabling technologies for high-performance computing at the edge of the 6 G networks, supporting high data rates and ultra-low service latency. Although MEC is a remedy to meet the growing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ummy Habiba , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

Latency-sensitive embedded applications increasingly rely on edge computing, yet dynamic network congestion in multi-server architectures challenges proper edge server selection. This paper proposes a lightweight server-selection method for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jaime Sebastian Burbano , Arnova Abdullah , Eldiyar Zhantileuov , Mohan Liyanage , Rolf Schuster

Mobile edge computing provides users with a cloud environment close to the edge of the wireless network, supporting the computing intensive applications that have low latency requirements. The combination of offloading with the wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Ruoyun Chen , Hancheng Lu , Pengfei Ma

Although multi-access edge computing (MEC) has allowed for computation offloading at the network edge, weak wireless signals in the radio access network caused by obstacles and high network load are still preventing efficient edge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Elie El Haber , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine , Kim Khoa Nguyen

Nowadays a wide range of applications is constrained by low-latency requirements that cloud infrastructures cannot meet. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been proposed as the reference architecture for executing applications closer to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Luciano Baresi , Davide Yi Xian Hu , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Luca Terracciano

We investigate the problem of designing delay-aware joint flow control, routing, and scheduling algorithms in general multi-hop networks for maximizing network utilization. Since the end-to-end delay performance has a complex dependence on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Haozhi Xiong , Ruogu Li , Atilla Eryilmaz , Eylem Ekici

In this paper, we present a delay-optimal packet scheduler for processing the M2M uplink traffic at the M2M application server (AS). Due to the delay-heterogeneity in uplink traffic, we classify it broadly into delay-tolerant and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Akshay Kumar , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Charles Clancy

This letter investigates a cache-enabled multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system with dynamic task arrivals, taking into account the impact of proactive cache placement on the system's overall energy consumption. We consider that an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jingxuan Liang , Hong Xing , Feng Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a cost-effective paradigm to enhance the computing capability of hardware-constrained wireless devices (WDs). In this paper, we first consider a two-user MEC network, where each WD has a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Meixia Tao

In this paper, we propose a more refined video segment based Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enhanced cache update strategy, which takes into account the client's playback status and transmission state, MEC cache capacity and the popularity of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Xinyu Huang , Lijun He , Xin Chen , Fan Li , Guizhong Liu

Mobile edge computing facilitates users to offload computation tasks to edge servers for meeting their stringent delay requirements. Previous works mainly explore task offloading when system-side information is given (e.g., server…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xiong Wang , Jiancheng Ye , John C. S. Lui

The trend of massive connectivity pushes forward the explosive growth of end devices. The emergence of various applications has prompted a demand for pervasive connectivity and more efficient computing paradigms. On the other hand, the lack…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Zelin Ji , Zhijin Qin

Edge computing is an emerging paradigm to enable low-latency applications, like mobile augmented reality, because it takes the computation on processing devices that are closer to the users. On the other hand, the need for highly scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Claudio Cicconetti , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

Real-time applications in the next generation networks often rely upon offloading the computational task to a \textit{nearby} server to achieve ultra-low latency. Augmented reality applications for instance have strict latency requirements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Sumit Maheshwari , Dipankar Raychaudhuri

In this paper, a joint task, spectrum, and transmit power allocation problem is investigated for a wireless network in which the base stations (BSs) are equipped with mobile edge computing (MEC) servers to jointly provide computational and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Sihua Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Xuanlin Liu , Changchuan Yin , Shuguang Cui , H. Vincent Poor

For in-vehicle application,task type and vehicle state information, i.e., vehicle speed, bear a significant impact on the task delay requirement. However, the joint impact of task type and vehicle speed on the task delay constraint has not…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Xinyu Huang , Lijun He , Xing Chen , Liejun Wang , Fan Li

With the rapid development of smart manufacturing, edge computing-oriented microservice platforms are emerging as an important part of production control. In the containerized deployment of microservices, layer sharing can reduce the huge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Yuxiang Liu , Bo Yang , Yu Wu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan