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...
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 (...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...