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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,515 Views
10 Pages

A Tunable Self-Offloading Module for Plantar Pressure Regulation in Diabetic Patients

  • Bhawnath Tiwari,
  • Kenny Jeanmonod,
  • Paolo Germano,
  • Christian Koechli,
  • Sofia Lydia Ntella,
  • Zoltan Pataky,
  • Yoan Civet and
  • Yves Perriard

Plantar pressure plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of foot ulcers among patients with diabetes and peripheral polyneuropathy. Pressure relief is a key requirement for both the prevention and treatment of plantar ulcers. Conventional medical pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,241 Views
14 Pages

Self-Adaptive Learning of Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Systems

  • Peng Huang,
  • Minjiang Deng,
  • Zhiliang Kang,
  • Qinshan Liu and
  • Lijia Xu

31 August 2021

Mobile edge computing (MEC) focuses on transferring computing resources close to the user’s device, and it provides high-performance and low-delay services for mobile devices. It is an effective method to deal with computationally intensive and delay...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,163 Views
10 Pages

The Validity and Reliability of Self-Reported Adherence to Using Offloading Treatment in People with Diabetes-Related Foot Ulcers

  • Anas Ababneh,
  • Kathleen Finlayson,
  • Helen Edwards,
  • David G. Armstrong,
  • Bijan Najafi,
  • Jaap J. van Netten and
  • Peter A. Lazzarini

30 April 2023

Adherence to using offloading treatment is crucial to healing diabetes-related foot ulcers (DFUs). Offloading adherence is recommended to be measured using objective monitors. However, self-reported adherence is commonly used and has unknown validity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
931 Views
28 Pages

Self-Adaptable Computation Offloading Strategy for UAV-Assisted Edge Computing

  • Yanting Wang,
  • Yuhang Zhang,
  • Zhuo Qian,
  • Yubo Zhao and
  • Han Zhang

28 October 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-assisted Edge Computing (UAV-EC) leverages UAVs as aerial edge servers to provide computation resources to user equipment (UE) in dynamically changing environments. A critical challenge in UAV-EC lies in making real-time adapt...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,226 Views
15 Pages

An Uncertainty-Driven Proactive Self-Healing Model for Pervasive Applications

  • Maria Papathanasaki,
  • Panagiotis Fountas and
  • Kostas Kolomvatsos

25 October 2022

The ever-increasing demand for services of end-users in the Internet of Things (IoT) often causes great congestion in the nodes dedicated to serving their requests. Such nodes are usually placed at the edge of the network, becoming the intermediates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,927 Views
31 Pages

Leveraging Blockchain Technology for Secure 5G Offloading Processes

  • Cristina Regueiro,
  • Santiago de Diego and
  • Borja Urkizu

29 April 2025

This paper presents a secure 5G offloading mechanism leveraging Blockchain technology and Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI). The advent of 5G has significantly enhanced the capabilities of all sectors, enabling innovative applications and improving secur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,148 Views
17 Pages

With the improvements in the intelligent level of connected vehicles (CVs), travelers can enjoy services such as self-driving, self-parking and audiovisual entertainment inside the vehicle, which place extremely high demands on the computing power of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,140 Views
17 Pages

Collaborative Optimization Strategy for Dependent Task Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing

  • Xiting Peng,
  • Yandi Zhang,
  • Xiaoyu Zhang,
  • Chaofeng Zhang and
  • Wei Yang

2 December 2024

The advancement of the Internet of Autonomous Vehicles has facilitated the development and deployment of numerous onboard applications. However, the delay-sensitive tasks generated by these applications present enormous challenges for vehicles with l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,891 Views
18 Pages

5 September 2023

With the vigorous development of industries such as self-driving, edge intelligence, and the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), the amount and type of data generated are unprecedentedly large, and users’ demand for high-quality services conti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,217 Views
30 Pages

12 November 2025

Intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) face challenges in handling intensive onboard computational tasks due to limited computing capacity. Vehicular edge computing networks (VECNs) offer a promising solution by enabling ICVs to offload tasks to mobil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,999 Views
15 Pages

On the Deployment of Out-of-the-Box Embedded Devices for Self-Powered River Surface Flow Velocity Monitoring at the Edge

  • Arsal-Hanif Livoroi,
  • Andrea Conti,
  • Luca Foianesi,
  • Fabio Tosi,
  • Filippo Aleotti,
  • Matteo Poggi,
  • Flavia Tauro,
  • Elena Toth,
  • Salvatore Grimaldi and
  • Stefano Mattoccia

29 July 2021

As reported in the recent image velocimetry literature, tracking the motion of sparse feature points floating on the river surface as done by the Optical Tracking Velocimetry (OTV) algorithm is a promising strategy to address surface flow monitoring....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,488 Views
24 Pages

22 February 2022

Currently, we are faced with an ever-increasing number of devices and objects connected to the Internet aimed at creating the so-called Internet of Things framework, fostering the creation of a connected world of objects. One of the main challenges w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,562 Views
31 Pages

30 October 2025

The rapid adoption of generative AI raises questions not only about its transformative potential but also about its cognitive and societal risks. This study contributes to the debate by presenting cross-country experimental data (n = 150; Germany, Sw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
419 Views
23 Pages

23 November 2025

This paper investigates the application of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in Joint Communication, Sensing, and Multi-tier Computing (JCSMC). An RIS-assisted JCSMC framework is proposed, wherein a full-duplex multi-antenna Base Station (BS)...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,734 Views
40 Pages

Proactive Self-Healing Approaches in Mobile Edge Computing: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Olusola Adeniyi,
  • Ali Safaa Sadiq,
  • Prashant Pillai,
  • Mohammed Adam Taheir and
  • Omprakash Kaiwartya

The widespread use of technology has made communication technology an indispensable part of daily life. However, the present cloud infrastructure is insufficient to meet the industry’s growing demands, and multi-access edge computing (MEC) has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,529 Views
29 Pages

Joint Edge Computing and Caching Based on D3QN for the Internet of Vehicles

  • Geng Chen,
  • Jingli Sun,
  • Qingtian Zeng,
  • Gang Jing and
  • Yudong Zhang

With the Internet of Vehicles (IOV), a lot of self-driving vehicles (SDVs) need to handle a variety of tasks but have very seriously limited computing and storage resources, meaning they cannot complete intensive tasks timely. In this paper, a joint...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,339 Views
15 Pages

A Multi-Faceted Digital Health Solution for Monitoring and Managing Diabetic Foot Ulcer Risk: A Case Series

  • Emily Matijevich,
  • Evan Minty,
  • Emily Bray,
  • Courtney Bachus,
  • Maryam Hajizadeh and
  • Brock Liden

23 April 2024

Introduction: Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are a devastating complication of diabetes. There are numerous challenges with preventing diabetic foot complications and barriers to achieving the care processes suggested in established foot care guidelines....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,373 Views
14 Pages

8 September 2022

At present, autonomous driving vehicles are designed in an ego-vehicle manner. The vehicles gather information from their on-board sensors, build an environment model from it and plan their movement based on this model. Mobile network connections are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,995 Views
25 Pages

Federated Secure Computing

  • Hendrik Ballhausen and
  • Ludwig Christian Hinske

Privacy-preserving computation (PPC) enables encrypted computation of private data. While advantageous in theory, the complex technology has steep barriers to entry in practice. Here, we derive design goals and principles for a middleware that encaps...

  • Article
  • Open Access
498 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
5 Citations
3,531 Views
21 Pages

D2D Mobile Relaying Meets NOMA—Part I: A Biform Game Analysis

  • Safaa Driouech,
  • Essaid Sabir,
  • Mounir Ghogho and
  • El-Mehdi Amhoud

20 January 2021

Structureless communications such as Device-to-Device (D2D) relaying are undeniably of paramount importance to improving the performance of today’s mobile networks. Such a communication paradigm requires implementing a certain level of intellig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,550 Views
15 Pages

8 October 2021

The increasingly huge amount of device connections will transform the Internet of Things (IoT) into the massive IoT. The use cases of massive IoT consist of the smart city, digital agriculture, smart traffic, etc., in which the service requirements a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,292 Views
13 Pages

An Energy Efficient Local Popularity Based Cooperative Caching for Mobile Information Centric Networks

  • Javed Iqbal,
  • Zain ul Abideen,
  • Nadia Ali,
  • Saddam Hussain Khan,
  • Azizur Rahim,
  • Ali Zahir,
  • Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan and
  • Mohammed H. Alsharif

13 October 2022

The usage of social media applications such as Youtube, Facebook, and other applications is rapidly increasing with each passing day. These applications are used for uploading informational content such as images, videos, and voices, which results in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,920 Views
30 Pages

27 February 2023

To build intelligent model learning in conventional architecture, the local data are required to be transmitted toward the cloud server, which causes heavy backhaul congestion, leakage of personalization, and insufficient use of network resources. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,589 Views
24 Pages

9 June 2021

This trial evaluated the feasibility of podiatrist-led health coaching (HC) to facilitate smart-insole adoption and foot monitoring in adults with diabetes-related neuropathy. Adults aged 69.9 ± 5.6 years with diabetes for 13.7 ± 10.3 years participa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,148 Views
38 Pages

Impact of Transportation Electrification on the Electricity Grid—A Review

  • Reza Bayani,
  • Arash F. Soofi,
  • Muhammad Waseem and
  • Saeed D. Manshadi

6 October 2022

Transportation electrification is a pivotal factor in accelerating the transition to sustainable energy. Electric vehicles (EVs) can operate either as loads or distributed power resources in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) or vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) linkage....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,367 Views
19 Pages

31 December 2024

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) furnished with computational servers enable user equipment (UE) to offload complex computational tasks, thereby addressing the limitations of edge computing in remote or resource-constrained environments. The applicati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,396 Views
16 Pages

6 February 2022

The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the critical technologies in the recent fourth industrial revolution. The AIoT (Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things) is expected to be a solution that aids rapid and secure data process...

  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
16,724 Views
14 Pages

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is associated with peripheral sensory and motor nerve damage that affects up to half of diabetes patients and is an independent risk factor for falls. Clinical implications of DPN-related falls include injury, psy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,409 Views
34 Pages

Microservice-Based Vehicular Network for Seamless and Ultra-Reliable Communications of Connected Vehicles

  • Mira M. Zarie,
  • Abdelhamied A. Ateya,
  • Mohammed S. Sayed,
  • Mohammed ElAffendi and
  • Mohammad Mahmoud Abdellatif

The fifth-generation (5G) cellular infrastructure is expected to bring about the widespread use of connected vehicles. This technological progress marks the beginning of a new era in vehicular networks, which includes a range of different types and s...