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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,005 Views
17 Pages

9 May 2024

Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) is a crucial application of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) in vehicular networks. In VEC networks, the computation tasks of vehicle terminals (VTs) can be offloaded to nearby MEC servers, overcoming the limitations of VTs&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,294 Views
16 Pages

Predictive Migration Performance in Vehicular Edge Computing Environments

  • Katja Gilly,
  • Sonja Filiposka and
  • Salvador Alcaraz

21 January 2021

Advanced learning algorithms for autonomous driving require lots of processing and storage power, which puts a strain on vehicles’ computing resources. Using a combination of 5G network connectivity with ultra-high bandwidth and low latency tog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,464 Views
20 Pages

2 March 2019

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been recently proposed to bring computing capabilities closer to mobile endpoints, with the aim of providing low latency and real-time access to network information via applications and services. Several attempts have...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,550 Views
7 Pages

A Bluetooth 5 Opportunistic Edge Computing System for Vehicular Scenarios

  • Ángel Niebla-Montero,
  • Iván Froiz-Míguez,
  • Paula Fraga-Lamas and
  • Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés

1 November 2022

The limitations of many IoT devices in terms of storage, computing power and energy consumption require them to be connected to other devices when performing computationally intensive tasks, as happens with IoT systems based on edge computing archite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,405 Views
19 Pages

Characterizing Perception Deep Learning Algorithms and Applications for Vehicular Edge Computing

  • Wang Feng,
  • Sihai Tang,
  • Shengze Wang,
  • Ying He,
  • Donger Chen,
  • Qing Yang and
  • Song Fu

8 January 2025

Vehicular edge computing relies on the computational capabilities of interconnected edge devices to manage incoming requests from vehicles. This offloading process enhances the speed and efficiency of data handling, ultimately boosting the safety, pe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,454 Views
45 Pages

30 November 2023

In recent years, the need for computation-intensive applications in mobile networks requiring more storage, powerful processors, and real-time responses has risen substantially. Vehicular networks play an important role in this ecosystem, as they mus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,058 Views
19 Pages

22 March 2023

In big cities, there are more and more parking lots and charging piles for electric vehicles, and the resources of parking and charging vehicles can be aggregated to provide strong computing power for vehicular edge computing (VEC). In this paper, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,439 Views
15 Pages

Enhancing 5G Vehicular Edge Computing Efficiency with the Hungarian Algorithm for Optimal Task Offloading

  • Mohamed Kamel Benbraika,
  • Okba Kraa,
  • Yassine Himeur,
  • Khaled Telli,
  • Shadi Atalla and
  • Wathiq Mansoor

28 October 2024

The rapid advancements in vehicular technologies have enabled modern autonomous vehicles (AVs) to perform complex tasks, such as augmented reality, real-time video surveillance, and automated parking. However, these applications require significant c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,872 Views
22 Pages

20 November 2024

The rapid development of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) and intelligent transportation systems has led to increased demand for real-time data processing and computation in vehicular networks. To address these needs, this paper proposes a task offload...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,814 Views
39 Pages

12 September 2025

Aerial-assisted vehicular edge computing (AVEC) has emerged as a transformative approach to addressing the limitations of traditional vehicular edge computing (VEC) in dynamic vehicular environments. By integrating platforms such as unmanned aerial v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
11,125 Views
21 Pages

4 January 2021

The conventional architecture of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) with a centralized approach has difficulty overcoming the increasing complexity of intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications as well as challenges in providing large amoun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,584 Views
20 Pages

Bandwidth-Aware Traffic Sensing in Vehicular Networks with Mobile Edge Computing

  • Kong Ye,
  • Penglin Dai,
  • Xiao Wu,
  • Yan Ding,
  • Huanlai Xing and
  • Zhaofei Yu

14 August 2019

Traffic sensing is one of the promising applications to guarantee safe and efficient traffic systems in vehicular networks. However, due to the unique characteristics of vehicular networks, such as limited wireless bandwidth and dynamic mobility of v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,238 Views
19 Pages

Task-Offloading Strategy Based on Performance Prediction in Vehicular Edge Computing

  • Feng Zeng,
  • Jiangjunzhe Tang,
  • Chengsheng Liu,
  • Xiaoheng Deng and
  • Wenjia Li

22 March 2022

In vehicular edge computing, network performance and computing resources dynamically change, and vehicles should find the optimal strategy for offloading their tasks to servers to achieve a rapid computing service. In this paper, we address the multi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
214 Views
19 Pages

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) enables vehicles to offload computation-intensive tasks to roadside units (RSUs) equipped with deep learning (DL) models, thereby supporting low-latency and accuracy-sensitive intelligent vehicular tasks. To adapt DL mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,496 Views
18 Pages

Dynamic Task Offloading for Cloud-Assisted Vehicular Edge Computing Networks: A Non-Cooperative Game Theoretic Approach

  • Md. Delowar Hossain,
  • Tangina Sultana,
  • Md. Alamgir Hossain,
  • Md. Abu Layek,
  • Md. Imtiaz Hossain,
  • Phoo Pyae Sone,
  • Ga-Won Lee and
  • Eui-Nam Huh

12 May 2022

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is one of the prominent ideas to enhance the computation and storage capabilities of vehicular networks (VNs) through task offloading. In VEC, the resource-constrained vehicles offload their computing tasks to the local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,907 Views
16 Pages

7 December 2022

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is a promising technology for supporting computation-intensive vehicular applications with low latency at the network edges. Vehicles offload their tasks to VEC servers (VECSs) to improve the quality of service (QoS) of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,598 Views
23 Pages

1 September 2023

Efficient task offloading decision is a crucial technology in vehicular edge computing, which aims to fulfill the computational performance demands of complex vehicular tasks with respect to delay and energy consumption while minimizing network resou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,324 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
19 Citations
3,622 Views
29 Pages

A Novel Energy-Efficient Reservation System for Edge Computing in 6G Vehicular Ad Hoc Network

  • Farhan Javed,
  • Zuhaib Ashfaq Khan,
  • Shahzad Rizwan,
  • Sonia Shahzadi,
  • Nauman Riaz Chaudhry and
  • Muddesar Iqbal

22 June 2023

The roadside unit (RSU) is one of the fundamental components in a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), where a vehicle communicates in infrastructure mode. The RSU has multiple functions, including the sharing of emergency messages and the updating of v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,863 Views
23 Pages

19 May 2023

In recent years, the demand for vehicular edge computing (VEC) has grown rapidly due to the increasing need for low-latency and high-throughput applications such as autonomous driving and smart transportation systems. Nevertheless, offering VEC servi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
408 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2025

This paper presents a traffic-driven scaling framework for a digital twin proxy pool (DTPP) in vehicular edge computing (VEC), designed to eliminate the latency and synchronization issues inherent in conventional digital twin (DT) migration approache...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,786 Views
13 Pages

24 June 2021

With a large of time series dataset from the Internet of Things in Ambient Intelligence-enabled smart environments, many supervised learning-based anomaly detection methods have been investigated but ignored the correlation among the time series. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,838 Views
16 Pages

Age of Information Minimization in Vehicular Edge Computing Networks: A Mask-Assisted Hybrid PPO-Based Method

  • Xiaoli Qin,
  • Zhifei Zhang,
  • Chanyuan Meng,
  • Rui Dong,
  • Ke Xiong and
  • Pingyi Fan

14 April 2025

With the widespread deployment of various emerging intelligent applications, information timeliness is crucial for intelligent decision-making in vehicular networks, where vehicular edge computing (VEC) has become an important paradigm to enhance com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,830 Views
21 Pages

QoS-Aware Joint Task Scheduling and Resource Allocation in Vehicular Edge Computing

  • Chenhong Cao,
  • Meijia Su,
  • Shengyu Duan,
  • Miaoling Dai,
  • Jiangtao Li and
  • Yufeng Li

30 November 2022

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) has emerged in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) as a new paradigm that offloads computation tasks to Road Side Units (RSU), aiming to thereby reduce the processing delay and resource consumption of vehicles. Ideal computa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,182 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Fault-Tolerant Approach for Dynamic Redundant Path Selection Service Migration in Vehicular Edge Computing

  • Jiale Zhao,
  • Yong Ma,
  • Yunni Xia,
  • Mengxuan Dai,
  • Peng Chen,
  • Tingyan Long,
  • Shiyun Shao,
  • Fan Li,
  • Yin Li and
  • Feng Zeng

4 October 2022

Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) provides users with low-latency and highly responsive services by deploying Edge Servers (ESs) close to applications. In practice, vehicles are usually moving rapidly. To ensure the continuity of services, edge service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,054 Views
19 Pages

A Power Allocation Scheme for MIMO-NOMA and D2D Vehicular Edge Computing Based on Decentralized DRL

  • Dunxing Long,
  • Qiong Wu,
  • Qiang Fan,
  • Pingyi Fan,
  • Zhengquan Li and
  • Jing Fan

25 March 2023

In vehicular edge computing (VEC), some tasks can be processed either locally or on the mobile edge computing (MEC) server at a base station (BS) or a nearby vehicle. In fact, tasks are offloaded or not, based on the status of vehicle-to-infrastructu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,429 Views
23 Pages

14 September 2022

Cooperative perception is an important domain of autonomous driving that helps to improve road safety and traffic efficiency. Nevertheless, the large amount of sensed data and complicated algorithms make storage and computation for autonomous vehicle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,359 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
3 Citations
3,358 Views
29 Pages

25 March 2025

The Vehicular Edge-Cloud Computing (VECC) paradigm has gained traction as a promising solution to mitigate the computational constraints through offloading resource-intensive tasks to distributed edge and cloud networks. However, conventional computa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
127 Views
26 Pages

10 March 2026

Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) can effectively guarantee the service experience of user vehicles, but resource-limited Roadside Units (RSUs) may face insufficient computing capacity during task peak periods. Utilizing Assisting Vehicles (AVs) with id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,601 Views
13 Pages

1 February 2021

With the development of smart vehicles and various vehicular applications, Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) paradigm has attracted from academic and industry. Compared with the cloud computing platform, VEC has several new features, such as the higher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,588 Views
20 Pages

2 August 2021

The vehicular network is an emerging technology in the Intelligent Smart Transportation era. The network provides mechanisms for running different applications, such as accident prevention, publishing and consuming services, and traffic flow manageme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,501 Views
20 Pages

7 December 2022

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is emerging as a prospective technology in the era of 5G and beyond to support delay-sensitive and computation-intensive vehicular applications. However, designing an efficient approach for joint computation offloading...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,269 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
13 Citations
6,528 Views
14 Pages

Scalable Edge Computing Deployment for Reliable Service Provisioning in Vehicular Networks

  • Federico Tonini,
  • Bahare M. Khorsandi,
  • Elisabetta Amato and
  • Carla Raffaelli

The global connected cars market is growing rapidly. Novel services will be offered to vehicles, many of them requiring low-latency and high-reliability networking solutions. The Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) paradigm, thanks to the centralizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,456 Views
31 Pages

A Novel Multi-Server Federated Learning Framework in Vehicular Edge Computing

  • Fateme Mazloomi,
  • Shahram Shah Heydari and
  • Khalil El-Khatib

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful approach for privacy-preserving model training in autonomous vehicle networks, where real-world deployments rely on multiple roadside units (RSUs) serving heterogeneous clients with intermittent conne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,992 Views
18 Pages

22 December 2023

Introducing partial task offloading into vehicle edge computing networks (VECNs) can ease the burden placed on the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) by emerging vehicle applications and services. In this circumstance, the task offloading ratio and the resou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,177 Views
19 Pages

Multi-User Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation Algorithm in a Vehicular Edge Network

  • Xiangyan Liu,
  • Jianhong Zheng,
  • Meng Zhang,
  • Yang Li,
  • Rui Wang and
  • Yun He

29 March 2024

In Vehicular Edge Computing Network (VECN) scenarios, the mobility of vehicles causes the uncertainty of channel state information, which makes it difficult to guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) in the process of computation offloading and the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
164 Views
22 Pages

PPO-Based Hybrid Optimization for RIS-Assisted Semantic Vehicular Edge Computing

  • Wei Feng,
  • Jingbo Zhang,
  • Qiong Wu,
  • Pingyi Fan and
  • Qiang Fan

25 February 2026

To support latency-sensitive Internet of Vehicles (IoV) applications amidst dynamic environments and intermittent links, this paper proposes a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-aided semantic-aware Vehicle Edge Computing (VEC) framework. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,236 Views
17 Pages

11 October 2022

Nowadays, computation offloading has become a research focus since it has the potential to solve the challenges faced when dealing with computation-intensive applications in the Internet of Vehicles (IoVs), especially in the 5G or future network envi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,889 Views
14 Pages

6 September 2024

Internet of Vehicles applications are known to be critical and time-sensitive. The value proposition of edge computing comprises its lower latency, advantageous bandwidth consumption, privacy, management, efficiency of treatments, and mobility, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,229 Views
20 Pages

15 March 2019

Vehicular ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are an integral part of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) that facilitate communications between vehicles and the internet. More recently, VANET communications research has strayed from the antiquated DSRC st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,536 Views
18 Pages

12 September 2023

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is essential in vehicle applications such as traffic control and in-vehicle services. In the task offloading process of VEC, predictive-mode transmission based on deep learning is constrained by limited computational re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,857 Views
22 Pages

18 September 2023

Real-time computation tasks in vehicular edge computing (VEC) provide convenience for vehicle users. However, the efficiency of task offloading seriously affects the quality of service (QoS). The predictive-mode task offloading is limited by computat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,519 Views
18 Pages

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) effectively reduces the computational burden on vehicles by offloading tasks from resource-constrained vehicles to edge nodes. However, non-uniformly distributed vehicles offloading a large number of tasks cause load im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,494 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2022

With the wider adoption of edge computing services, intelligent edge devices, and high-speed V2X communication, compute-intensive tasks for autonomous vehicles, such as object detection using camera, LiDAR, and/or radar data, can be partially offload...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,024 Views
21 Pages

Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing-Enabled Medical Vehicular Networks

  • Chuangchuang Zhang,
  • Siquan Liu,
  • Hongyong Yang,
  • Guanghai Cui,
  • Fuliang Li and
  • Xingwei Wang

27 December 2024

In medical vehicular networks, medical vehicles can serve as efficient mobile medical service points to provide necessary and critical medical services for patients while in motion. The delay requirement is very vital for medical services to guarante...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
5,355 Views
16 Pages

Secure and Blockchain-Based Emergency Driven Message Protocol for 5G Enabled Vehicular Edge Computing

  • Lewis Nkenyereye,
  • Bayu Adhi Tama,
  • Muhammad K. Shahzad and
  • Yoon-Ho Choi

25 December 2019

Basic safety message (BSM) are messages that contain core elements of a vehicle such as vehicle’s size, position, speed, acceleration and others. BSM are lightweight messages that can be regularly broadcast by the vehicles to enable a variety o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,600 Views
18 Pages

14 March 2024

With the exponential growth of wireless devices and the demand for real-time processing, traditional server architectures face challenges in meeting the ever-increasing computational requirements. This paper proposes a collaborative edge computing fr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,889 Views
33 Pages

Due to developments in vehicle engineering and communication technologies, vehicular networks have become an attractive and feasible solution for the future of electric, autonomous, and connected vehicles. Electric autonomous vehicles will require mo...

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