Abstract With the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming part of our daily life and our environment,
we expect rapid growth in the number of connected devices. IoT is expected to connect …

Contrary to using distant and centralized cloud data center resources, employing
decentralized resources at the edge of a network for processing data closer to user devices …

Path computing is a new paradigm that generalizes the edge computing vision into a multi-
tier cloud architecture deployed over the geographic span of the network. Path computing …

The multi-replica strategy can create multiple data replicas for the edge cloud system and
store them in different DataNodes, which improves data availability and data service quality …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has received much attention from the research community in
recent years. A significant part of the published work has studied the telecom-centric MEC …