Today, cloud computation offloading may not be an appropriate solution for delay-sensitive
applications due to the long distance between end-devices and remote datacenters. In …

In the scenario of Industry 4.0, mobile smart devices (SDs) on production lines have to
process massive amounts of data. These computing tasks sometimes far exceed the …

The rapid growth of Automotive-Industry 5.0 and its emergence with beyond fifth-generation
(B5G) communications, is making vehicular edge computing networks (VECNs) increasingly …

Multi-cloud computing is becoming a promising paradigm to provide abundant computation
resources for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. For a multi-device multi-cloud network, the …

This paper studies the drone-aided last-mile delivery problem with shared depot resources.
Our research motivation comes from E-commerce logistics, where big companies such as …

Energy management in smart homes is one of the most critical problems for the Quality of
Life (QoL) and preserving energy resources. One of the relevant issues in this subject is …

As an important concept to depict the freshness of an information when it arrives at the
destination, the Age-of-Information (AoI) and its relative scheduling works can be a very …

Recently, edge-cloud computing (ECC) has emerged as a new paradigm for alleviating the
intensive overhead for mobile IoT applications. However, data security remains a significant …

The essence of connection in vehicle network is the social relationship between people, and
thus Vehicular Social Networks (VSNs), characterized by social aspects and features, can …

The phenomenon of economic globalization has led to a greater intermingling of economy
and culture, which has brought about new demands for innovative talent cultivation in …