A bifactor approximation algorithm for cloudlet placement in edge computing

D Bhatta, L Mashayekhy - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging applications with low-latency requirements such as real-time analytics, immersive
media applications, and intelligent virtual assistants have rendered Edge Computing as a …

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 …

Efficient cost-optimization frameworks for hybrid cloudlet placement over fiber-wireless networks

S Mondal, G Das, E Wong - Journal of Optical Communications and …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Over the past few decades, researchers studying mobile cloud computing have focused
mainly on the energy savings of mobile devices by offloading computation and …

Efficient algorithms for capacitated cloudlet placements

Z Xu, W Liang, W Xu, M Jia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile cloud computing is emerging as a main ubiquitous computing platform to provide rich
cloud resources for various applications of mobile devices. Although most existing studies in …

Cost-optimal cloudlet placement frameworks over fiber-wireless access networks for low-latency applications

S Mondal, G Das, E Wong - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
In the recent past, we have observed a trend that edge devices are increasingly accessing
computational resources through the Internet, preferably via cloud computing technologies …

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 …

Generalized cost-aware cloudlet placement for vehicular edge computing systems

D Bhatta, L Mashayekhy - 2019 IEEE International Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the well-known challenges in Edge Computing is strategic placement of cloudlets.
The fundamental goals of this challenge are to minimize the deployment cost of cloudlets …

Access point ranking for cloudlet placement in edge computing environment

G Yang, Q Sun, A Zhou, S Wang… - 2016 IEEE/ACM …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This poster addresses the problem of access point ranking for cloudlet placement in edge
computing environment. Access point ranking is an important step for cloudlets placement …

Multiobjective optimized cloudlet deployment and task offloading for mobile-edge computing

X Zhu, MC Zhou - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile-edge computing provides an effective approach to reducing the workload of smart
devices and the network delay induced by data transfer through deploying computational …

Capacitated cloudlet placements in wireless metropolitan area networks

Z Xu, W Liang, W Xu, M Jia… - 2015 IEEE 40Th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we study the cloudlet placement problem in a large-scale Wireless Metropolitan
Area Network (WMAN) that consists of many wireless Access Points (APs). Although most …