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4 November 2026

Edge computing (EC) has emerged as a critical paradigm for enabling low-latency, real-time applications, yet the distributed and resource-constrained nature of edge infrastructure poses significant challenges for energy-efficient task allocation. Tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Optimization for Sustainable Edge-Cloud Continuum)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,878 Views
19 Pages

Optimal Computational Power Allocation in Multi-Access Mobile Edge Computing for Blockchain

  • Yuan Wu,
  • Xiangxu Chen,
  • Jiajun Shi,
  • Kejie Ni and ,
  • Liping Qian,
  • Liang Huang and
  • Kuan Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 October 2018

Blockchain has emerged as a decentralized and trustable ledger for recording and storing digital transactions. The mining process of Blockchain, however, incurs a heavy computational workload for miners to solve the proof-of-work puzzle (i.e., a seri...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,754 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Data-Driven Evaluation Framework for Fork after Withholding Attack in Blockchain Systems

  • Yang Zhang,
  • Yourong Chen,
  • Kelei Miao,
  • Tiaojuan Ren and ,
  • Changchun Yang and
  • Meng Han
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 November 2022

In the blockchain system, mining pools are popular for miners to work collectively and obtain more revenue. Nowadays, there are consensus attacks that threaten the efficiency and security of mining pools. As a new type of consensus attack, the Fork A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Social Intelligence and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,366 Views
23 Pages

The combination of mobile edge computing (MEC) and wireless power transfer (WPT) is recognized as a promising technology to solve the problem of limited battery capacities and insufficient computation capabilities of mobile devices. This technology c...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,975 Views
25 Pages

The paper researches the impact of the input data resolution on the solution of optimal allocation and power management of controllable and non-controllable renewable energy sources distributed generation in the distribution power system. Computation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence Application in Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,692 Views
30 Pages

Resource Scheduling Algorithm for Edge Computing Networks Based on Multi-Objective Optimization

  • Wenrui Liu,
  • Jiale Zhu,
  • Xiangming Li,
  • Yichao Fei and ,
  • Hai Wang,
  • Shangdong Liu,
  • Xiaoyao Zheng and
  • Yimu Ji
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

9 October 2025

Edge computing networks represent an emerging technological paradigm that enhances real-time responsiveness for mobile devices by reallocating computational resources from central servers to the network’s edge. This shift enables more efficient...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
917 Views
20 Pages

3 February 2026

In this work, a robust optimization approach for energy-aware federated learning (FL) in industrial IoT networks is proposed that addresses uncertainties in harvested energy, device failures, and dynamic topologies. The proposed neurosymbolic reasoni...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,256 Views
16 Pages

Digital-Twin-Assisted Edge-Computing Resource Allocation Based on the Whale Optimization Algorithm

  • Shaoming Qiu,
  • Jiancheng Zhao,
  • Yana Lv,
  • Jikun Dai and ,
  • Fen Chen,
  • Yahui Wang and
  • Ao Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 December 2022

With the rapid increase of smart Internet of Things (IoT) devices, edge networks generate a large number of computing tasks, which require edge-computing resource devices to complete the calculations. However, unreasonable edge-computing resource all...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,030 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2024

In recent years, the unmanned aerial vehicle-assisted internet of vehicles has been extensively studied to enhance communication and computation services in vehicular environments where ground infrastructures are limited or absent. However, due to th...

(This article belongs to the Section Innovative Urban Mobility)
  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
11,572 Views
30 Pages

Task Allocation Methods and Optimization Techniques in Edge Computing: A Systematic Review of the Literature

  • Vasilios Patsias,
  • Petros Amanatidis,
  • Dimitris Karampatzakis,
  • Thomas Lagkas and ,
  • Kalliopi Michalakopoulou and
  • Alexandros Nikitas
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Task allocation in edge computing refers to the process of distributing tasks among the various nodes in an edge computing network. The main challenges in task allocation include determining the optimal location for each task based on the requirement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,735 Views
19 Pages

Dynamic Offloading Loading Optimization in Distributed Fault Diagnosis System with Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

  • Liang Yu,
  • Qixin Guo,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Minyan Shi and ,
  • Fucheng Yan and
  • Ran Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 March 2023

Artificial intelligence and distributed algorithms have been widely used in mechanical fault diagnosis with the explosive growth of diagnostic data. A novel intelligent fault diagnosis system framework that allows intelligent terminals to offload com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Vibration and Acoustics 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,013 Views
17 Pages

With the rapid development of new power systems, diverse new power services have imposed stricter requirements on network resources and performance. However, the traditional method of transmitting request data to the IoT management platform for unifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things and Cloud-Fog-Edge Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,726 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2023

With the emergence of more and more computing-intensive and latency-sensitive applications, insufficient computing power and energy of user devices has become a common phenomenon. Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an effective solution to this phenomeno...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
375 Views
23 Pages

2 September 2026

This paper investigates joint computing and relaying for multiuser task offloading in a wireless-powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system comprising an energy node (EN), an edge server (ES), and multiple energy-harvesting users. One user is selecte...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,022 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2015

Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), which is widely used in the wireless sensor networks, allows different users to obtain different subcarriers according to their subchannel gains. Therefore, how to assign subcarriers and power to...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,278 Views
21 Pages

Peer-to-Peer Transactive Computation–Electricity Trading for Interconnected Virtual Power Plant Buildings

  • Zhiping Gao,
  • Wenwen Kang,
  • Xinghua Chen,
  • Sheng Ding and ,
  • Wei Xu,
  • Degang He,
  • Wenhu Chen and
  • Da Xu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 December 2023

Advancements of the virtual power plant (VPP) concept have aggregated buildings as their power plants and/or service providers. This paper proposes a peer-to-peer transactive computation–electricity trading framework for multiple-building virtu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategies for Building Energy Efficiency)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,121 Views
24 Pages

27 October 2023

With the rapid development of 5G, artificial intelligence, the internet of things (IoT) and other technologies, the number of intelligent terminal devices is growing explosively, bringing huge challenges to the existing communication network and clou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
656 Views
33 Pages

The rapid increase in interest for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) networks has created significant challenges in efficient radio resource management. This paper addresses the problem of joint subcarrier assignment and power allocation to maximize the sp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Communications for UAVs, IoT, 5G Technologies, Information and Coding Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,485 Views
20 Pages

15 May 2023

An edge computing offloading strategy was proposed with the goal of addressing the issue of low edge computing efficiency and service quality in the multi-service and multi-user intersections of networked vehicles. This strategy took into account all...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Challenges in the Next-Generation Internet of Things (IoT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,312 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation for multi-user orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) power line communication (PLC) systems, which satisfy both the total average transmit power constrained by PLC networks and the...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,364 Views
22 Pages

22 October 2020

In this paper, we aim to provide reliable user connectivity and enhanced security for computation task offloading. Physical layer security is studied in a wireless-powered non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) mobile edge computing (MEC) system with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficient Design and Control of Non-orthogonal Multiple Access Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,311 Views
13 Pages

Wireless devices in Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as wireless sensors and Radio Frequency Identifications (RFIDs), are faced with challenges of heavy computation tasks and limited energy, which can be solved by the importation of mobile...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent and Cooperation Communication and Networking Technologies for IoT)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,935 Views
13 Pages

An Efficient Resource Allocation Algorithm for OFDM-Based NOMA in 5G Systems

  • Omar A. Saraereh,
  • Amer Alsaraira,
  • Imran Khan and
  • Peerapong Uthansakul

23 November 2019

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has become the key technology in the future 5G wireless networks. It can achieve multi-user multiplexing in the transmit power domain by allocating different power, which can effectively improve the system capaci...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,758 Views
14 Pages

14 September 2022

An optimal power allocation is a fundamental challenge for massive multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems because the power allocation should be acclimated to time-varying channels and heavy traffic conditions throughout the communicatio...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,652 Views
20 Pages

15 October 2019

The ranking and selection of simulation optimization is a very powerful tool in systems engineering and operations research. Due to the influence of randomness, the algorithms for ranking and selection need high and uncertain amounts of computing pow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,118 Views
24 Pages

17 May 2021

In this paper, we consider the physical layer security problem of the wireless communication system. For the multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system, secrecy capacity optimization artificial noise (SCO−AN) is introduced a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application and Theory of Multimedia Signal Processing Using Machine Learning or Advanced Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,786 Views
25 Pages

13 September 2017

This paper considers power splitting (PS)-based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel networks where multiple transceiver pairs share the same frequency spectrum. A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Information Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,897 Views
12 Pages

14 November 2017

In this paper, we present an energy-efficient resource allocation and power control scheme for D2D (Device-to-Device) multicasting transmission. The objective is to maximize the overall energy-efficiency of D2D multicast clusters through effective re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Cellular D2D Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
271 Views
27 Pages

13 October 2026

Learned resource allocators for sixth-generation edge networks usually treat operational limits as penalties and may return infeasible decisions. This paper studies energy minimization in multi-cell uplink non-orthogonal multiple access mobile edge c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,239 Views
23 Pages

10 February 2025

With the rapid development of vehicular networks, the computational capabilities and application scenarios of vehicles are becoming increasingly diverse, leading to a continuous emergence of complex computational tasks. Facing these tasks, a single v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,512 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2021

In this paper, we study the transmit power minimization problem with optimal energy beamforming in a multi-antenna wireless powered communication network (WPCN). The considered network consists of one hybrid access point (H-AP) with multiple antennae...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Network Protocols and Performance Evaluation)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,813 Views
28 Pages

Blockchain-Based UAV-Assisted Mobile Edge Computing for Dual Game Resource Allocation

  • Shanchen Pang,
  • Yu Tang,
  • Xue Zhai,
  • Siyuan Tong and
  • Zhenghao Wan

7 April 2025

UAV-assisted mobile edge computing combines the flexibility of UAVs with the computing power of MEC to provide low-latency, high-performance computing solutions for a wide range of application scenarios. However, due to the highly dynamic and heterog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,729 Views
25 Pages

Resource Optimization for 3D Video SoftCast with Joint Texture/Depth Power Allocation

  • Saqr Khalil Saeed Thabet,
  • Emmanuel Osei-Mensah,
  • Omar Ahmed,
  • Abegaz Mohammed Seid and
  • Olusola Bamisile

17 May 2022

During wireless video transmission, channel conditions can vary drastically. When the channel fails to support the transmission bit rate, the video quality degrades sharply. A pseudo-analog transmission system such as SoftCast relies on linear operat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,666 Views
25 Pages

6 July 2023

This paper presents four optimization outcomes for a diesel generator (DG), photovoltaic (PV), and battery hybrid generating radial system, to reduce the network losses and achieve optimum generated power with minimum costs. The effectiveness of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,844 Views
20 Pages

Fog computing has become a hot topic in recent years as it provides cloud computing resources to the network edge in a distributed manner that can respond quickly to intensive tasks from different user equipment (UE) applications. However, since fog...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,774 Views
14 Pages

10 May 2022

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless communication system where a base station (BS) equipped multi antennas communicates with multiple UAVs, each equipped with a single antenna, using the LoRa (Long Range) modulation....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Perception, Navigation, and Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,047 Views
17 Pages

Flexible Resource Optimization for D2D XL-MIMO Communication via Adversarial Multi-Armed Bandit

  • Zhaomin Jian,
  • Chao Ma,
  • Yunchao Song,
  • Mengshuang Liu and
  • Huibin Liang

Extremely large-scale multi-input and multi-output (XL-MIMO) communication, compared to conventional massive multi-input multi-output communication, can support more users and higher data throughput, thereby significantly improving its spectral effic...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,562 Views
21 Pages

Joint Radar-Communications Exploiting Optimized OFDM Waveforms

  • Ammar Ahmed,
  • Yimin D. Zhang and
  • Aboulnasr Hassanien

30 October 2021

We propose novel Joint Radar-communication spectrum sharing strategies exploiting orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms that concurrently achieve the objectives of both radar and communication systems. An OFDM transmitter is con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Joint Radar-Communication Systems, Multi-Carrier Radars, Passive Radar Networks, and Waveform Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
811 Views
25 Pages

Research on the Economic Transmission Mechanism and Dynamic Optimization of Computing Power Networks Based on a Multi-Sectoral Input–Output Model and a Hybrid Algorithm Solution

  • Chunxiang Du,
  • Shuangjie Li,
  • Huijuan Wang,
  • Wenhua Shi and ,
  • Lu Feng,
  • Xinyu Zhang,
  • Xiaojuan Zhang and
  • Nan Jia
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 June 2026

In the digital economy era, computing power, as a novel factor of production, serves as a vital engine for driving high-quality economic development. Building upon China’s traditional 42-sector input–output table, this paper incorporates...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Energy Economy and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,724 Views
23 Pages

10 March 2025

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a modern technique that has led to substantial progress in wireless networks. To address the challenge of efficient task implementation in resource-limited environments, this work strengthens system performance through...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,391 Views
29 Pages

Optimal Renewable Resource Allocation and Load Scheduling of Resilient Communities

  • Jing Wang,
  • Kaitlyn Garifi,
  • Kyri Baker,
  • Wangda Zuo and ,
  • Yingchen Zhang,
  • Sen Huang and
  • Draguna Vrabie
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 October 2020

This paper presents a methodology for enhancing community resilience through optimal renewable resource allocation and load scheduling in order to minimize unserved load and thermal discomfort. The proposed control architecture distributes the comput...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,755 Views
14 Pages

3 July 2020

In this paper, we propose a learning-based solution for resource allocation in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN). We provide a study and analysis of a deep neural network (DNN) which can reasonably effectively approximate the iterative...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,499 Views
27 Pages

An Efficient Resource Allocation for Massive MTC in NOMA-OFDMA Based Cellular Networks

  • Yali Wu,
  • Shuang Zhang,
  • Zhengxuan Liu,
  • Xiaoshuang Liu and
  • Jianfeng Li

To alleviate random access congestion and support massive-connections with less energy consumption for machine-type communications (MTC) in the 5G cellular network, we propose an efficient resource allocation for massive MTC (mMTC) with hybrid non-or...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,465 Views
10 Pages

15 February 2023

In this paper, we study user grouping, precoding design, and power allocation for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. An optimization problem is formulated to the maximize the sum rate under a transmit...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,787 Views
25 Pages

Towards an Effective Service Allocation in Fog Computing

  • Rayan A. Alsemmeari,
  • Mohamed Yehia Dahab,
  • Badraddin Alturki,
  • Abdulaziz A. Alsulami and
  • Raed Alsini

22 August 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) generates a large volume of data whenever devices are interconnected and exchange data across a network. Consequently, a variety of services with diverse needs arises, including capacity requirements, data quality, and la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Machine Learning-Based Vision and Sensing Integrated into Cloud, and IoT Edge Computing Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,412 Views
20 Pages

Optimized Battery Capacity Allocation Method for Wind Farms with Dual Operating Conditions

  • Chenrui Duanmu,
  • Linjun Shi,
  • Deping Jian,
  • Renshan Ding and ,
  • Yang Li and
  • Feng Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 April 2024

In order to solve the problems of wind power output volatility and wind power participation in frequency regulation, a method for optimizing the capacity allocation of wind farm storage batteries based on the dual grouping strategy and considering th...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,299 Views
20 Pages

Mobile edge computing (MEC) powered by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with the advantages of flexible deployment and wide coverage, is a promising technology to solve computationally intensive communication problems. In this paper, an orthogonal ti...

(This article belongs to the Topic Electronic Communications, IOT and Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
730 Views
33 Pages

This paper presents a joint communication–computation optimization (JCCO) framework for energy-efficient resource allocation in edge-assisted swarm robotics. The proposed framework jointly optimizes task offloading, bandwidth allocation, transm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Robot Systems for Embodied Intelligence Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,446 Views
19 Pages

Flexible Smart Energy-Management Systems Using an Online Tendering Process Framework for Microgrids

  • Mansour Selseleh Jonban,
  • Luis Romeral,
  • Elyas Rakhshani and
  • Mousa Marzband

24 June 2023

Currently, modern power grids are evolving into complex cyber-physical systems integrated with distributed energy resources that can be controlled and monitored by computer-based algorithms. Given the increasing prevalence of artificial intelligence...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Converter Control Applications in Low-Inertia Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,412 Views
19 Pages

13 December 2017

Minimizing the energy consumption is a dominant problem in data center design and operation. To cope with this issue, the common approach is to optimize the data center layout and the workload distribution among servers. Previous works have mainly ad...

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