Contrary to using distant and centralized cloud data center resources, employing
decentralized resources at the edge of a network for processing data closer to user devices …

Technological evolution of mobile user equipment (TIEs), such as smartphones or laptops,
goes hand-in-hand with evolution of new mobile applications. However, running …

This paper proposes a novel user cooperation approach in both computation and
communication for mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to improve the energy efficiency …

Despite the evolution and enhancements that mobile devices have experienced, they are
still considered as limited computing devices. Today, users become more demanding and …

Intelligent transportation systems are designed to provide innovative applications and
services relating to traffic management, as well as to facilitate the access to information for …

Mobile devices are becoming increasingly capable computing platforms with significant
processor power and memory. However, mobile compute capabilities are often …

Monitoring breathing rates and patterns helps in the diagnosis and potential avoidance of
various health problems. Current solutions for respiratory monitoring, however, are usually …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an innovative scheme providing massive applications that
have become part of our daily lives. The number of IoT and connected devices are growing …

Fog computing combines cloud services with geographically distributed resources near the
network edge to offer computational offloading possibilities to end devices, featuring low …

This paper surveys the literature of opportunistic offloading. Opportunistic offloading refers to
offloading traffic originally transmitted through the cellular network to opportunistic network …