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Mobile edge computing is a novel technique in which mobile devices offload computation-intensive tasks with stringent delay requirements to the edge cloud. However, the limited computational resource in the edge cloud may result in the Quality of Service degradation. In this paper, we address this issue by coordinating the heterogeneous cloud which includes the edge cloud and the remote cloud. Considering...
As accessing computing resources from the remote cloud for big data processing inherently incurs high end-to-end (E2E) delay for mobile users, cloudlets, which are deployed at the edge of networks, can potentially mitigate this problem. Although load offloading in cloudlet networks has been proposed, placing the cloudlets to minimize the deployment cost of cloudlet providers and E2E delay of user...
Wireless caching enables popular files to be stored at the base stations (BSs) in advance, which has been considered as an efficient way to reduce the service delay and alleviate heavy burdens on the backhaul links. In this paper, we study the BS clustering scheme for the cooperative wireless caching networks (CWCNs) with heterogeneous file preference among users and BSs, and propose the minimum cost...
Offloading has been widely adopted as an effective technique to overcome the processing and computation limitation in mobile networks. In this work, we consider the problem of offloading in a mobile ad hoc environment in order to improve the processing capability and power efficiency. We formulate this as an incentive-based workload assignment problem. For maximizing the individual utility, the buyer/seller...
Road safety applications heavily rely on periodic message exchanges known as beaconing in order to gain awareness about the current situation within the vehicle communication range. The high level of transmission contention in dense vehicular networks can induce successive beacon collisions. These collisions impede the vehicles to have an up-to-date view of the environment which can lead to bad decisions...
Research and development on video streaming over vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have expanded rapidly in the last few years. In order to improve road safety and to satisfy road users requirements, video streaming has been proposed to disseminate continuously, an accurate video data, concerning traffic circumstance, travel information, divertissement, etc. High quality video streaming in vehicular...
Large network operators have thousands or tens of thousands of access aggregation links that they need to manage and dimension properly. Measuring and understanding the traffic characteristics on these type of links are therefore essential. What do the traffic intensity characteristics look like on different timescales from days down to milliseconds? How do the characteristics differ if we compare...
In this paper, we deal with the store-and-forward paradigm for self-organizing Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN). To overcome the decentralized nature and the infrastructureless constraint of such a network, highly distributed design and efficient incentive mechanisms are needed in order to convince relay nodes to disseminate the content. Here, we exhibit a new way to set the store-and-forward scheme...
Geo-distributed mobile cloud computing takes location information into consideration in mobile cloud computing. Users can access cloud resources that are geographically close to their mobile devices in Geo-distributed mobile cloud computing to reduce communication delay. Considering the uncertainty requirement of mobile users, in this paper, we focus on resource sharing through cooperation among cloud...
Lately application service providers (ASPs) and Internet service providers (ISPs) are being confronted with the unprecedented challenge of accommodating increasing service and traffic demands from their geographically distributed users. Many ASPs and ISPs, such as Facebook, Netflix, AT&T and others have adopted micro-service architecture to tackle this problem. Instead of building a single, monolithic...
Cloudlet based network provides a platform to offloading the traffic workload generated by mobile devices. It can significantly reduce the access delay for mobile application users. However, the high dynamic mobility of users brings significant challenges to the service provisioning for mobile applications, especially for the delay-sensitive big data applications. To increase the overall admitted...
In the LTE EPC, many network entities and interfaces have to be maintained and updated regularly. Moreover, to accommodate more users, new hardware must be integrated, although rarely used. To address these challenges, the EPC can be moved to the cloud using two modern technologies: SDN and NFV. In this paper, we study the impact of integrating these novel technologies on LTE networks. We propose...
In the large-scale Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) consisting of many wireless Access Points (APs),choosing the appropriate position to place cloudlet is very important for reducing the user's access delay. For service provider, it isalways very costly to deployment cloudlets. How many cloudletsshould be placed in a WMAN and how much resource eachcloudlet should have is very important for...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) serving in hostile environments are susceptible to multiple collocated failures due to explosives and natural calamities such as avalanches, landslides, etc., which can partition the network into disjoint segments. In such a scenario, federating the segments becomes essential for reestablishing communication among segments and resuming the WSN operation. Placing relays...
Mobile cloudlet has recently received considerable attentions in mobile cloud computing because of its reduction in energy consumption and communication latency. It faces, however, two major challenges: first, its mobility path could significantly affect mobile application services it can offer to other mobile devices; second, its resources are very limited including its battery capacity. In this...
The wireless mobile networks (WMNs) are nowadays faced to several challenges such as the guarantee of quality of service (QoS) in the presence of multiple constraints specific to the wireless communication environments. The limited energy of the different nodes is one of these constraints which constitute the main source of the connectivity breaks within the network. Such breaks when repeated may...
Video traffic constitutes the majority of traffic in bytes that mobile and fixed line operators deliver to their customer. This type of traffic is both resource consuming and QoE sensitive. Either because of content quality or QoE, a large fraction of users often abandon viewing prematurely. These abandonment phenomena lead to a huge waste of network resources and device batteries. Several strategies...
Next generation wireless architectures are expected to enable slices of shared wireless infrastructure which are customized to specific mobile operators/services. Given infrastructure costs and the stochastic nature of mobile services' spatial loads, it is highly desirable to achieve efficient statistical multiplexing amongst network slices. We study a simple dynamic resource sharing policy which...
In this paper, we proposed a novel locally semi-stand alone Smart Virtual evolved Base Station (SVeNB), for 5G mobile communication. Where some functions of system Evolved Packet System (EPS) elements can be done with SVeNB. According to the type of function or service and the device, which is used to fulfil that function or service. These elements can be virtualized and programmed in one Virtual...
Edge Computing, as a solution to leveraging computation capabilities at the edge of the network, is emerging. One key challenge for edge computing is offering its computing service with a low service blocking and low latency that otherwise translate to an inefficient deployment of a Edge computing system. Unlike cloud computing, the computing resources in edge computing are limited. One way to deal...
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