Workload allocation in hierarchical cloudlet networks

Q Fan, N Ansari - IEEE Communications Letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge cloudlets are promising to mitigate the high network delay incurred by the remote
cloud in executing workloads offloaded from a user equipment (UE). However, the response …

Latency aware workload offloading in the cloudlet network

X Sun, N Ansari - IEEE Communications Letters, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel network architecture by leveraging the cloudlet concept, the software
defined networking technology, and the cellular network infrastructure to bring the …

Cloudlet load balancing in wireless metropolitan area networks

M Jia, W Liang, Z Xu, M Huang - IEEE INFOCOM 2016-The …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With advances in wireless communication technology, more and more people depend
heavily on portable mobile devices for businesses, entertainments and social interactions …

On cost aware cloudlet placement for mobile edge computing

Q Fan, N Ansari - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As accessing computing resources from the remote cloud inherently incurs high end-to-end
(E2E) delay for mobile users, cloudlets, which are deployed at the edge of a network, can …

Qos-aware cloudlet load balancing in wireless metropolitan area networks

M Jia, W Liang, Z Xu, M Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With advances in wireless communication technology, more and more people depend
heavily on portable mobile devices for business, entertainments and social interactions. This …

Optimal deployment of cloudlets based on cost and latency in Internet of Things networks

Z Wang, F Gao, X Jin - Wireless Networks, 2020 - Springer
With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), a large amount of data is generated on
the network edge. Given the limited computing power of mobile devices (MDs) and access to …

A novel mobility-aware offloading management scheme in sustainable multi-access edge computing

S Guan, A Boukerche - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) extends the provisioning of computing
and storage capabilities from remote Cloud Data Centers (DC) to the proximity of end users …

Cloudlet placement and task allocation in mobile edge computing

S Yang, F Li, M Shen, X Chen, X Fu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile edge computing (MEC) offers a way to shorten the cloud servicing delay by building
the small-scale cloud infrastructures, such as cloudlets at the network edge, which are in …

Cost aware cloudlet placement for big data processing at the edge

Q Fan, N Ansari - 2017 IEEE International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As accessing computing resources from the remote cloud for big data processing inherently
incurs high end-to-end (E2E) delay for mobile users, cloudlets, which are deployed at the …

Joint optimization of request assignment and computing resource allocation in multi-access edge computing

H Liu, X Long, Z Li, S Long, R Ran… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of multi-access edge computing (MEC), the cloudlet at the edge of the
network can provide nearby high-performance computing services, thus reducing the …