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In this paper, we consider a task offloading problem in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) network, in which edge users can either use their local processing unit to compute their tasks or offload their tasks to a nearby edge server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Babak Badnava , Keenan Roach , Kenny Cheung , Morteza Hashemi , Ness B Shroff

By exploiting the superiority of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), NOMA-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) can provide scalable and low-latency computing services for the Internet of Things. However, given the prevalent stochasticity of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Meihui Hua , Hui Tian , Xinchen Lyu , Wanli Ni , Gaofeng Nie

Edge computing addresses the growing data demands of connected-device networks by placing computational resources closer to end users through decentralized infrastructures. This decentralization challenges traditional, fully centralized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Frederico Metelo , Alexandre Oliveira , Stevo Racković , Pedro Ákos Costa , Cláudia Soares

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging paradigm that mobile devices can offload the computation-intensive or latency-critical tasks to the nearby MEC servers, so as to save energy and extend battery life. Unlike the cloud server, MEC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Kang Cheng , Yinglei Teng , Weiqi Sun , An Liu , Xianbin Wang

Edge computing has become one of the key enablers for ultra-reliable and low-latency communications in the industrial Internet of Things in the fifth generation communication systems, and is also a promising technology in the future sixth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Xiaoyu Hao , Ruohai Zhao , Tao Yang , Yulin Hu , Bo Hu , Yuhe Qiu

Code offloading is promising to accelerate mobile applications and save energy of mobile devices by shifting some computation to cloud. However, existing code offloading systems suffer from a long communication delay between mobile devices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Li Lin , Xiaofei Liao

The rise of delay-sensitive yet computing-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) applications poses challenges due to the limited processing power of IoT devices. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers a promising solution to address these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Ke Ma , Junfei Xie

We propose and implement a family of quantum-informed recursive optimization (QIRO) algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. Our approach leverages quantum resources to obtain information that is used in problem-specific…

Limited computing resources of internet-of-things (IoT) nodes incur prohibitive latency in processing input data. This triggers new research opportunities toward task offloading systems where edge servers handle intensive computations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Sangwon Hwang , Hoon Lee , Juseong Park , Inkyu Lee

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) enable powerful cross-modal reasoning capabilities but impose substantial computational and latency burdens, posing critical challenges for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zheming Yang , Qi Guo , Jun Wan , Jiarui Ruan , Yunqing Hu , Chang Zhao , Xiangyang Li

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology that provides cloud and IT services within the proximity of the mobile user. With the increasing number of mobile applications, mobile devices (MD) encounter limitations of their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Mahla Rahati-Quchani , Saeid Abrishami , Mehdi Feizi

Next-generation edge intelligence is anticipated to benefit various applications via offloading techniques. However, traditional offloading architectures face several issues, including heterogeneous constraints, partial perception,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Li Dong , Feibo Jiang , Yubo Peng , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan , Robert Schober

Wireless charging coupled with computation offloading in edge networks offers a promising solution for realizing power-hungry and computation intensive applications on user devices. We consider a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Rafia Malik , Mai Vu

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

With the high flexibility of supporting resource-intensive and time-sensitive applications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is proposed as an innovational paradigm to support the mobile users (MUs). As a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Wenshuai Liu , Bin Li , Wancheng Xie , Yueyue Dai , Zesong Fei

The rapid proliferation of latency-sensitive and battery-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications has intensified the need for intelligent workload placement mechanisms across the Edge-Cloud computing continuum. In such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Anastasios Giannopoulos , Sotirios Spantideas , Panagiotis Trakadas

While mobile edge computing (MEC) alleviates the computation and power limitations of mobile devices, additional latency is incurred when offloading tasks to remote MEC servers. In this work, the power-delay tradeoff in the context of task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , H. Vincent Poor

By offloading intensive computation tasks to the edge cloud located at the cellular base stations, mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) has been regarded as a promising means to accomplish the ambitious millisecond-scale end-to-end…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Jinke Ren , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai , Yinghui He

Edge service caching can significantly mitigate latency and reduce communication and computing overhead by fetching and initializing services (applications) from clouds. The freshness of cached service data is critical when providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yuhan Yi , Guanglin Zhang , Hai Jiang

This study presents a novel computer system performance optimization and adaptive workload management scheduling algorithm based on Q-learning. In modern computing environments, characterized by increasing data volumes, task complexity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Pochun Li , Yuyang Xiao , Jinghua Yan , Xuan Li , Xiaoye Wang