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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,642 Views
29 Pages

23 June 2022

In the era of heterogeneous 5G networks, Internet of Things (IoT) devices have significantly altered our daily life by providing innovative applications and services. However, these devices process large amounts of data traffic and their application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,241 Views
30 Pages

Joint Pricing, Server Orchestration and Network Slice Deployment in Mobile Edge Computing Networks

  • Yijian Hou,
  • Kaisa Zhang,
  • Gang Chuai,
  • Weidong Gao,
  • Xiangyu Chen and
  • Siqi Liu

21 February 2025

The integration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and network slicing can provide low-latency and customized services. In such integrated wireless networks, we propose a pricing-driven joint MEC server orchestration and network slice deployment scheme (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,218 Views
24 Pages

Cost and Latency Optimized Edge Computing Platform

  • István Pelle,
  • Márk Szalay,
  • János Czentye,
  • Balázs Sonkoly and
  • László Toka

13 February 2022

Latency-critical applications, e.g., automated and assisted driving services, can now be deployed in fog or edge computing environments, offloading energy-consuming tasks from end devices. Besides the proximity, though, the edge computing platform mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,997 Views
28 Pages

Network Service and Resource Orchestration: A Feature and Performance Analysis within the MEC-Enhanced Vehicular Network Context

  • Nina Slamnik-Kriještorac,
  • Erik de Britto e Silva,
  • Esteban Municio,
  • Henrique C. Carvalho de Resende,
  • Seilendria A. Hadiwardoyo and
  • Johann M. Marquez-Barja

10 July 2020

By providing storage and computational resources at the network edge, which enables hosting applications closer to the mobile users, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) uses the mobile backhaul, and the network core more efficiently, thereby reducing t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,113 Views
13 Pages

19 November 2021

As Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices are becoming increasingly popular in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the orchestration and management of numerous fog devices encounter a scalability problem. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,624 Views
29 Pages

5 July 2019

This article addresses one of the main challenges related to the practical deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions: the coordinated operation of entities at different infrastructures to support the automated orchestration of end-to-end Inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,333 Views
26 Pages

Fuzzy Decision-Based Efficient Task Offloading Management Scheme in Multi-Tier MEC-Enabled Networks

  • Md Delowar Hossain,
  • Tangina Sultana,
  • Md Alamgir Hossain,
  • Md Imtiaz Hossain,
  • Luan N. T. Huynh,
  • Junyoung Park and
  • Eui-Nam Huh

20 February 2021

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a new leading technology for meeting the demands of key performance indicators (KPIs) in 5G networks. However, in a rapidly changing dynamic environment, it is hard to find the optimal target server for processing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,296 Views
29 Pages

ENERDGE: Distributed Energy-Aware Resource Allocation at the Edge

  • Marios Avgeris,
  • Dimitrios Spatharakis,
  • Dimitrios Dechouniotis,
  • Aris Leivadeas,
  • Vasileios Karyotis and
  • Symeon Papavassiliou

15 January 2022

Mobile applications are progressively becoming more sophisticated and complex, increasing their computational requirements. Traditional offloading approaches that use exclusively the Cloud infrastructure are now deemed unsuitable due to the inherent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,079 Views
20 Pages

Distributed Agent-Based Orchestrator Model for Fog Computing

  • Agnius Liutkevičius,
  • Nerijus Morkevičius,
  • Algimantas Venčkauskas and
  • Jevgenijus Toldinas

7 August 2022

Fog computing is an extension of cloud computing that provides computing services closer to user end-devices at the network edge. One of the challenging topics in fog networks is the placement of tasks on fog nodes to obtain the best performance and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
492 Views
30 Pages

Edge-to-Cloud Continuum Orchestrator Based on Heterogeneous Nodes for Urban Traffic Monitoring

  • Pietro Ruiu,
  • Andrea Lagorio,
  • Claudio Rubattu,
  • Matteo Anedda,
  • Michele Sanna and
  • Mauro Fadda

13 December 2025

This paper presents an edge-to-cloud orchestrator capable of supporting services running at the edge on heterogeneous nodes based on general-purpose processing units and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform (i.e., AMD Kria K26 SoM) in an urb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,959 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Agent Dynamic Fog Service Placement Approach

  • Nerijus Šatkauskas and
  • Algimantas Venčkauskas

Fog computing as a paradigm was offered more than a decade ago to solve Cloud Computing issues. Long transmission distances, higher data flow, data loss, latency, and energy consumption lead to providing services at the edge of the network. But, fog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,448 Views
21 Pages

BloSM: Blockchain-Based Service Migration for Connected Cars in Embedded Edge Environment

  • Srinidhi Kanagachalam,
  • Khikmatullo Tulkinbekov and
  • Deok-Hwan Kim

Edge computing represents the future of computing paradigms that perform tasks near the user plane. The integration of blockchain with edge computing provides the added advantage of secured and trusted communication. In this paper, we propose a block...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,078 Views
25 Pages

Recently, in the field of Virtual Reality (VR), cloud VR has been proposed as a method to address issues related to the performance and portability of Head-Mounted Displays (HMD). Cloud VR offers advantages such as lightweight HMD, telepresence, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,308 Views
19 Pages

1 March 2021

Internet of Things (IoT) is swiftly evolving into a disruptive technology in recent years. For enhancing customer experience and accelerating job execution, IoT task offloading enables mobile end devices to release heavy computation and storage to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
414 Views
15 Pages

Self-Organized Neural Network Inference in Dynamic Edge Networks

  • Manuel Schrauth,
  • Moritz Thome,
  • Torsten Ohlenforst and
  • Felix Kreyß

28 November 2025

Inference of large machine learning models can quickly exceed the capabilities of edge devices in terms of performance, memory or energy consumption. When offloading computations to a cloud server is not possible or feasible, for instance, due to dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,342 Views
28 Pages

11 December 2021

Digitalization and networking are taking on an increasingly important role in manufacturing. Fifth Generation mobile networks (5G) allow us to wirelessly connect multiple assets in factories with guaranteed quality of service (QoS). A 5G non-public n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,318 Views
16 Pages

This research presents an IoT-empowered adaptive mobility framework that integrates high-dimensional gesture recognition with edge-cloud orchestration for safety-critical human–machine interaction. The system architecture establishes a three-ti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,043 Views
24 Pages

A Novel Orchestrator Architecture for Deploying Virtualized Services in Next-Generation IoT Computing Ecosystems

  • Francisco Mahedero Biot,
  • Alejandro Fornes-Leal,
  • Rafael Vaño,
  • Raúl Reinosa Simón,
  • Ignacio Lacalle,
  • Carlos Guardiola and
  • Carlos E. Palau

24 January 2025

The Next-Generation IoT integrates diverse technological enablers, allowing the creation of advanced systems with increasingly complex requirements and maximizing the use of available IoT–edge–cloud resources. This paper introduces an orc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,124 Views
15 Pages

An Edge-Based Architecture for Offloading Model Predictive Control for UAVs

  • Achilleas Santi Seisa,
  • Sumeet Gajanan Satpute,
  • Björn Lindqvist and
  • George Nikolakopoulos

6 August 2022

Thanks to the development of 5G networks, edge computing has gained popularity in several areas of technology in which the needs for high computational power and low time delays are essential. These requirements are indispensable in the field of robo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,794 Views
19 Pages

Reliablity and Security for Fog Computing Systems

  • Egor Shiriaev,
  • Tatiana Ermakova,
  • Ekaterina Bezuglova,
  • Maria A. Lapina and
  • Mikhail Babenko

Fog computing (FC) is a distributed architecture in which computing resources and services are placed on edge devices closer to data sources. This enables more efficient data processing, shorter latency times, and better performance. Fog computing wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
14,252 Views
20 Pages

Deploying CPU-Intensive Applications on MEC in NFV Systems: The Immersive Video Use Case

  • Giorgio Cattaneo,
  • Fabio Giust,
  • Claudio Meani,
  • Daniele Munaretto and
  • Pietro Paglierani

26 October 2018

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) will be a technology pillar of forthcoming 5G networks. Nonetheless, there is a great interest in also deploying MEC solutions in current 4G infrastructures. MEC enables data processing in proximity to end users. Thu...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,046 Views
25 Pages

3 October 2025

The Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) model has emerged as a foundational cybersecurity paradigm that eliminates implicit trust and enforces continuous verification across users, devices, and networks. This study presents a systematic literature review o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,949 Views
22 Pages

Modeling- and Simulation-Driven Methodology for the Deployment of an Inland Water Monitoring System

  • Giordy A. Andrade,
  • Segundo Esteban,
  • José L. Risco-Martín,
  • Jesús Chacón and
  • Eva Besada-Portas

In response to the challenges introduced by global warming and increased eutrophication, this paper presents an innovative modeling and simulation (M&S)-driven model for developing an automated inland water monitoring system. This system is groun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,090 Views
19 Pages

An IoT Architecture for Sustainable Urban Mobility: Towards Energy-Aware and Low-Emission Smart Cities

  • Manuel J. C. S. Reis,
  • Frederico Branco,
  • Nishu Gupta and
  • Carlos Serôdio

4 October 2025

The rapid growth of urban populations intensifies congestion, air pollution, and energy demand. Green mobility is central to sustainable smart cities, and the Internet of Things (IoT) offers a means to monitor, coordinate, and optimize transport syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,457 Views
22 Pages

UAV Support for Mission Critical Services

  • Sławomir Kukliński,
  • Krzysztof Szczypiorski and
  • Prosper Chemouil

5 August 2022

Mission critical solutions are essential for providing communications and services in the case of the troubles with connectivity that are often found in infrastructure-based solutions. Such solutions are typically used in the case of disasters, lack...

  • Review
  • Open Access
167 Citations
28,664 Views
49 Pages

At the Confluence of Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing in IoT-Based Applications: A Review and New Perspectives

  • Amira Bourechak,
  • Ouarda Zedadra,
  • Mohamed Nadjib Kouahla,
  • Antonio Guerrieri,
  • Hamid Seridi and
  • Giancarlo Fortino

2 February 2023

Given its advantages in low latency, fast response, context-aware services, mobility, and privacy preservation, edge computing has emerged as the key support for intelligent applications and 5G/6G Internet of things (IoT) networks. This technology ex...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,306 Views
17 Pages

Improving Efficiency of Edge Computing Infrastructures through Orchestration Models

  • Raffaele Bolla,
  • Alessandro Carrega,
  • Matteo Repetto and
  • Giorgio Robino

Edge computing is an effective paradigm for proximity in computation, but must inexorably face mobility issues and traffic fluctuations. While software orchestration may provide effective service handover between different edge infrastructures, seaml...

  • Article
  • Open Access
845 Views
16 Pages

26 April 2025

Polarization navigation is an emerging navigation technology, that exhibits significant advantages, including strong anti-interference capability and non-cumulative errors over time, making it highly promising for applications in aerospace, autonomou...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Multi-Objective Joint Optimization for Microservice Deployment and Request Routing

  • Zhengying Cai,
  • Fang Yu,
  • Wenjuan Li,
  • Junyu Liu and
  • Mingyue Zhang

20 January 2026

Microservice deployment and request routing can help improve server efficiency and the performance of large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC). However, the joint optimization of microservice deployment and request routing is extremely challenging, as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,341 Views
27 Pages

RAMi: A New Real-Time Internet of Medical Things Architecture for Elderly Patient Monitoring

  • Olivier Debauche,
  • Jean Bertin Nkamla Penka,
  • Saïd Mahmoudi,
  • Xavier Lessage,
  • Moad Hani,
  • Pierre Manneback,
  • Uriel Kanku Lufuluabu,
  • Nicolas Bert,
  • Dounia Messaoudi and
  • Adriano Guttadauria

7 September 2022

The aging of the world’s population, the willingness of elderly to remain independent, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated the urgent need for home-based diagnostic and patient monitoring systems to reduce the financial and organ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,850 Views
14 Pages

Service Function Chain Migration: A Survey

  • Zhiping Zhang and
  • Changda Wang

As a core technology emerging from the convergence of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Service Function Chaining (SFC) enables the dynamic orchestration of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to support divers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,597 Views
17 Pages

Priority/Demand-Based Resource Management with Intelligent O-RAN for Energy-Aware Industrial Internet of Things

  • Seyha Ros,
  • Seungwoo Kang,
  • Inseok Song,
  • Geonho Cha,
  • Prohim Tam and
  • Seokhoon Kim

27 November 2024

The last decade has witnessed the explosive growth of the internet of things (IoT), demonstrating the utilization of ubiquitous sensing and computation services. Hence, the industrial IoT (IIoT) is integrated into IoT devices. IIoT is concerned with...