A key function of an edge service provider (ESP) is to dynamically allocate resources to
tasks existing at the edges upon request. This is, however, a challenging task due to a …

Task offloading is a promising technology to exploit the available resources in edge cloud
efficiently. Many incentive mechanisms for offloading systems have been proposed …

Social sensing has emerged as a new sensing application paradigm where measurements
about the physical world are collected from humans or devices on their behalf. The advent of …

Bitcoin is one of the most popular cryptocurrency in the world. Miners in the Bitcoin network
reduce their risks through participating in mining pool. Existing mining pool systems do not …

Multicasting has an important contribution in a wireless sensor network. Through
multicasting, multiple copies of data at the same time in a single transmission can be …

This article studies distributed computing (DC) mechanisms on heterogeneous mobile
devices (MDs) for latency reduction (LR) in Internet-of-Things (IoT) services by mitigating the …

Device-to-device (D2D) communications can combine the superiorities of both the cellular
network and the Ad hoc network, and it is an efficient way to improve the capacity of short …

Computing offloading of mobile devices (MDs) through cloud is a greatly effective way to
solve the problem of local resource constraints. However, cloud servers are usually located …

In the process of model training of the federated learning system, how to design an incentive
mechanism to attract more high-quality worker nodes to join is a key issue. The existing …

Computation offloading has been considered as a viable solution to blockchain mining in
mobile environments. In this paper, we present a two-layer computation offloading paradigm …