Junqing Bai¹, Qiuchao Dai^1,*, Yingying Li²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 5083-5103, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050921

Abstract To support the explosive growth of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) provides users with low latency and high bandwidth service by offloading computational tasks to the network’s edge. However, resource-constrained mobile devices still suffer from a capacity mismatch when faced with latency-sensitive and compute-intensive emerging applications. To address the difficulty of running computationally intensive applications on resource-constrained clients, a model of the computation offloading problem in a network consisting of multiple mobile users and edge cloud servers is studied in this paper. Then a user benefit function EoU (Experience of Users) is… More >

Yunye Wan¹, Peng Chen², Yunni Xia^1,*, Yong Ma³, Dongge Zhu⁴, Xu Wang⁵, Hui Liu⁶, Weiling Li⁷, Xianhua Niu², Lei Xu⁸, Yumin Dong⁹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.2, pp. 1997-2017, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.048723

Abstract Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising technology that provides on-demand computing and efficient storage services as close to end users as possible. In an MEC environment, servers are deployed closer to mobile terminals to exploit storage infrastructure, improve content delivery efficiency, and enhance user experience. However, due to the limited capacity of edge servers, it remains a significant challenge to meet the changing, time-varying, and customized needs for highly diversified content of users. Recently, techniques for caching content at the edge are becoming popular for addressing the above challenges. It is capable of filling… More >

Wanbo Zhang¹, Yuqi Fan¹, Jun Zhang¹, Xu Ding^2,*, Jung Yoon Kim^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.1, pp. 863-885, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.047295

Abstract Users and edge servers are not fully mutually trusted in mobile edge computing (MEC), and hence blockchain can be introduced to provide trustable MEC. In blockchain-based MEC, each edge server functions as a node in both MEC and blockchain, processing users’ tasks and then uploading the task related information to the blockchain. That is, each edge server runs both users’ offloaded tasks and blockchain tasks simultaneously. Note that there is a trade-off between the resource allocation for MEC and blockchain tasks. Therefore, the allocation of the resources of edge servers to the blockchain and the… More >

Ying Zhang¹, Weiming Niu², Supu Xiu^1,3, Guangchen Mu^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.2, pp. 1865-1884, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.030114

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the energy efficiency maximization for mobile edge computing (MEC) in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. In particular, UAV can collect the computing tasks of the terrestrial users and transmit the results back to them after computing. We jointly optimize the users’ transmitted beamforming and uploading ratios, the phase shift matrix of IRS, and the UAV trajectory to improve the energy efficiency. The formulated optimization problem is highly non-convex and difficult to be solved directly. Therefore, we decompose the original problem into three sub-problems. We first More >

Tianzhe Jiao, Xiaoyue Feng, Chaopeng Guo, Dongqi Wang, Jie Song^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.3, pp. 3585-3603, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040068

Abstract Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology for the fifth-generation (5G) and sixth-generation (6G) architectures, which provides resourceful computing capabilities for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as virtual reality, mobile devices, and smart cities. In general, these IoT applications always bring higher energy consumption than traditional applications, which are usually energy-constrained. To provide persistent energy, many references have studied the offloading problem to save energy consumption. However, the dynamic environment dramatically increases the optimization difficulty of the offloading decision. In this paper, we aim to minimize the energy consumption of the entire MEC system… More >

Ying Zhang^1,*, Weiming Niu², Leibing Yan¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.1, pp. 885-902, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.029234

Abstract In this paper, we consider mobile edge computing (MEC) networks against proactive eavesdropping. To maximize the transmission rate, IRS assisted UAV communications are applied. We take the joint design of the trajectory of UAV, the transmitting beamforming of users, and the phase shift matrix of IRS. The original problem is strong non-convex and difficult to solve. We first propose two basic modes of the proactive eavesdropper, and obtain the closed-form solution for the boundary conditions of the two modes. Then we transform the original problem into an equivalent one and propose an alternating optimization (AO) More >

Yongxuan Sang, Jiangpo Wei^*, Zhifeng Zhang, Bo Wang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.2, pp. 2483-2502, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040485

Abstract Computing-intensive and latency-sensitive user requests pose significant challenges to traditional cloud computing. In response to these challenges, mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a new paradigm that extends the computational, caching, and communication capabilities of cloud computing. By caching certain services on edge nodes, computational support can be provided for requests that are offloaded to the edges. However, previous studies on task offloading have generally not considered the impact of caching mechanisms and the cache space occupied by services. This oversight can lead to problems, such as high delays in task executions and invalidation… More >

Ilyоs Abdullaev¹, Natalia Prodanova², K. Aruna Bhaskar³, E. Laxmi Lydia⁴, Seifedine Kadry^5,6,7, Jungeun Kim^8,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.2, pp. 1463-1477, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.038417

Abstract Recently, computation offloading has become an effective method for overcoming the constraint of a mobile device (MD) using computation-intensive mobile and offloading delay-sensitive application tasks to the remote cloud-based data center. Smart city benefitted from offloading to edge point. Consider a mobile edge computing (MEC) network in multiple regions. They comprise N MDs and many access points, in which every MD has M independent real-time tasks. This study designs a new Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in IoT-based MEC using Deep Learning with Seagull Optimization (TORA-DLSGO) algorithm. The proposed TORA-DLSGO technique addresses the resource management issue More >

Dae-Young Kim¹, SoYeon Lee², MinSeung Kim², Seokhoon Kim^1,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.2, pp. 2049-2060, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.040473

Abstract In many IIoT architectures, various devices connect to the edge cloud via gateway systems. For data processing, numerous data are delivered to the edge cloud. Delivering data to an appropriate edge cloud is critical to improve IIoT service efficiency. There are two types of costs for this kind of IoT network: a communication cost and a computing cost. For service efficiency, the communication cost of data transmission should be minimized, and the computing cost in the edge cloud should be also minimized. Therefore, in this paper, the communication cost for data transmission is defined as… More >

Jixun Gao^1,2, Bingyi Hu², Jialei Liu^3,4,*, Huaichen Wang⁵, Quanzhen Huang¹, Yuanyuan Zhao⁶

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 1-16, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036890

Abstract Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is proposed to solve the needs of Internet of Things (IoT) users for high resource utilization, high reliability and low latency of service requests. However, the backup virtual machine is idle when its primary virtual machine is running normally, which will waste resources. Overbooking the backup virtual machine under the above circumstances can effectively improve resource utilization. First, these virtual machines are deployed into slots randomly, and then some tasks with cooperative relationship are offloaded to virtual machines for processing. Different deployment locations have different resource utilization and average service response… More >