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Mobile Edge Computing via a UAV-Mounted Cloudlet: Optimization of Bit Allocation and Path Planning Open
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been recently considered as means to provide enhanced coverage or relaying services to mobile users (MUs) in wireless systems with limited or no infrastructure. In this paper, a UAV-based mobile cloud c…
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From Cloud to Fog Computing: A Review and a Conceptual Live VM Migration Framework Open
Fog computing, an extension of cloud computing services to the edge of the network to decrease latency and network congestion, is a relatively recent research trend. Although both cloud and fog offer similar resources and services, the lat…
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UbeHealth: A Personalized Ubiquitous Cloud and Edge-Enabled Networked Healthcare System for Smart Cities Open
Smart city advancements are driving massive transformations of healthcare, the largest global industry. The drivers include increasing demands for ubiquitous, preventive, and personalized healthcare, to be provided to the public at reduced…
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Edge Computing in Vehicular Networks Open
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a promising technology to support\nmission-critical vehicular applications, such as intelligent path planning and\nsafety applications. In this paper, a collaborative edge computing framework is\ndeveloped to…
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Mobile Edge Cloud Network Design Optimization Open
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Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization for Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing Environments Open
The most important requirement in cloud computing environment is the task scheduling which plays the key role of efficiency of the whole cloud computing facilities. Task scheduling in cloud computing means that to allocate best suitable re…
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Energy-Latency Tradeoff for Dynamic Computation Offloading in Vehicular Fog Computing Open
Vehicular Fog Computing (VFC) provides solutions to relieves overload cloudlet nodes, reduces service latency during peak times, and saves energy for battery-powered cloudlet nodes by offloading user tasks to a vehicle (vehicular node) by …
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A Fog Computing and Cloudlet Based Augmented Reality System for the Industry 4.0 Shipyard Open
Augmented Reality (AR) is one of the key technologies pointed out by Industry 4.0 as a tool for enhancing the next generation of automated and computerized factories. AR can also help shipbuilding operators, since they usually need to inte…
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Edge Computing Architecture for Mobile Crowdsensing Open
Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a human-driven Internet of Things service empowering citizens to observe the phenomena of individual, community, or even societal value by sharing sensor data about their environment while on the move. Typical …
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Recent Advances in Evolving Computing Paradigms: Cloud, Edge, and Fog Technologies Open
Cloud computing has become integral lately due to the ever-expanding Internet-of-things (IoT) network. It still is and continues to be the best practice for implementing complex computational applications, emphasizing the massive processin…
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Cloudlet Placement and Task Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing Open
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 close proximity to end users. On one hand, it is energy co…
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Secure V2V and V2I Communication in Intelligent Transportation Using Cloudlets Open
Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is a vision which offers safe, secure and smart travel experience to drivers. This futuristic plan aims to enable vehicles, roadside transportation infrastructures, pedestrian smart-phones and other …
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Joint resource allocation and computation offloading in mobile edge computing for SDN based wireless networks Open
The rapid growth of the internet usage and the distributed computing resources of edge devices create a necessity to have a reasonable controller to ensure efficient utilization of distributed computing resources in mobile edge computing (…
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Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Edge of Vehicles: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, and Applications Open
With the proliferation of mobile devices and a wealth of rich application services, the Internet of vehicles (IoV) has struggled to handle computationally intensive and delay-sensitive computing tasks. To substantially reduce the latency a…
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Privacy Mediators Open
Unease over data privacy will retard consumer acceptance of IoT deployments. The primary source of discomfort is a lack of user control over raw data that is streamed directly from sensors to the cloud. This is a direct consequence of the …
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An energy- and cost-aware computation offloading method for workflow applications in mobile edge computing Open
Mobile edge computing is becoming a promising computing architecture to overcome the resource limitation of mobile devices and bandwidth bottleneck of the core networks in mobile cloud computing. Although offloading applications to the clo…
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DRALBA: Dynamic and Resource Aware Load Balanced Scheduling Approach for Cloud Computing Open
[EN] For the last few years, Cloud computing has been considered an attractive high-performance computing platform for individuals as well as organizations. The Cloud service providers (CSPs) are setting up data centers with high performan…
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Cloudlet Computing: Recent Advances, Taxonomy, and Challenges Open
A cloudlet is an emerging computing paradigm that is designed to meet the requirements and expectations of the Internet of things (IoT) and tackle the conventional limitations of a cloud (e.g., high latency). The idea is to bring computing…
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Cloudlet capture by transitional disk and FU Orionis stars Open
After its formation, a young star spends some time traversing the molecular cloud complex in which it was born. It is therefore not unlikely that, well after the initial cloud collapse event which produced the star, it will encounter one o…
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Task Offloading in Heterogeneous Mobile Cloud Computing: Modeling, Analysis, and Cloudlet Deployment Open
In this paper, we consider a heterogeneous mobile cloud computing (HMCC) system that consists of remote cloud servers, local cloudlets, task offloading mobile devices (TMDs), non-task offloading MDs (NTMDs), and radio access networks such …
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Transformation to Advanced Mechatronics Systems Within New Industrial Revolution: A Novel Framework in Automation of Everything (AoE) Open
The recent advances in cyber-physical domains, cloud, cloudlet and edge platforms along with the evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, big data analytics and cutting-edge wireless communication technologies within the Industry …
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Computation Offloading for Distributed Mobile Edge Computing Network: A Multiobjective Approach Open
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a cornerstone technology to address the conflict between resource-constrained smart devices (SDs) and the ever-increasing computational demands of the mobile applications. MEC enables the SDs to o…
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Towards a Secure Mobile Edge Computing Framework for Hajj Open
The cloud computing paradigm faces the challenges of providing low latency, high availability, and real-time location-aware services where millions of people are mobile with respect to time and geographic location. In this paper, we propos…
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CCOMPASSION: A Hybrid Cloudlet Placement Framework Over Passive Optical Access Networks Open
Cloud-based computing technology is one of the most significant technical\nadvents of the last decade and extension of this facility towards access\nnetworks by aggregation of cloudlets is a step further. To fulfill the ravenous\ndemand fo…
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A Survey on Mobile Cloud Computing: Mobile Computing + Cloud Computing (MCC = MC + CC) Open
In recent years, the mobile devices become popular for communication and running advanced real time applications such as face reorganization and online games. Although, mobile devices advanced for providing significant benefits for mobile …
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Wi-Fi indoor positioning and navigation: a cloudlet-based cloud computing approach Open
Wi-Fi-based indoor positioning for determining accurate wireless indoor location information has become crucial in meeting increasing demands for location-based services by leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) and ubiquitous connectivit…
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Energy-Aware Computation Offloading of IoT Sensors in Cloudlet-Based Mobile Edge Computing Open
Mobile edge computing is proposed as a promising computing paradigm to relieve the excessive burden of data centers and mobile networks, which is induced by the rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT). This work introduces the cloud-assis…
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Cloudlet Scheduling by Hybridized Monarch Butterfly Optimization Algorithm Open
Cloud computing technology enables efficient utilization of available physical resources through the virtualization where different clients share the same underlying physical hardware infrastructure. By utilizing the cloud computing concep…
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An Efficient and Secure Model Using Adaptive Optimal Deep Learning for Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing Open
Recently, cloud computing resources have become one of the trending technologies that permit the user to manage diverse resources and a huge amount of data in the cloud. Task scheduling is considered one of the most significant challenges …
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Resource Allocation Optimization Based on Mixed Integer Linear Programming in the Multi-Cloudlet Environment Open
Cloudlet provides services with low latency and high bandwidth. Some research addresses the resource allocation problem in the cloudlet-based mobile cloud computing environment. However, there are few works considering how to optimize reso…