Server placement in mobile cloud computing: A comprehensive survey for edge computing, fog computing and cloudlet

A Asghari, MK Sohrabi - Computer Science Review, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The growing technology of the fifth generation (5G) of mobile telecommunications has led to
the special attention of cloud service providers (CSPs) to mobile cloud computing (MCC) …

An energy-aware edge server placement algorithm in mobile edge computing

Y Li, S Wang - 2018 IEEE International conference on edge …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Edge server placement problem is a hot topic in mobile edge computing. In this paper, we
study the problem of energy-aware edge server placement and try to find a more effective …

Online job dispatching and scheduling in edge-clouds

H Tan, Z Han, XY Li, FCM Lau - IEEE INFOCOM 2017-IEEE …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In edge-cloud computing, a set of edge servers are deployed near the mobile devices such
that these devices can offload jobs to the servers with low latency. One fundamental and …

An energy-aware computation offloading method for smart edge computing in wireless metropolitan area networks

X Xu, Y Li, T Huang, Y Xue, K Peng, L Qi… - Journal of Network and …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Currently, the booming popularity and growth of mobile devices in urban cities leads to the
surge of various computation-intensive mobile applications, such as virtual reality and online …

Profit-aware edge server placement

Y Li, A Zhou, X Ma, S Wang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a 5G network, mobile-edge computing (MEC) plays a key role in providing low access
delay services. The placement of edge servers not only determines the quality of services on …

Efficient algorithms for capacitated cloudlet placements

Z Xu, W Liang, W Xu, M Jia… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile cloud computing is emerging as a main ubiquitous computing platform to provide rich
cloud resources for various applications of mobile devices. Although most existing studies in …

Classification of optimization problems in fog computing

J Bellendorf, ZÁ Mann - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Fog computing combines cloud services with geographically distributed resources near the
network edge to offer computational offloading possibilities to end devices, featuring low …

Cloudlet load balancing in wireless metropolitan area networks

M Jia, W Liang, Z Xu, M Huang - IEEE INFOCOM 2016-The …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With advances in wireless communication technology, more and more people depend
heavily on portable mobile devices for businesses, entertainments and social interactions …

Mobility-aware and delay-sensitive service provisioning in mobile edge-cloud networks

Y Ma, W Liang, J Li, X Jia, S Guo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising technology to push the cloud
frontier to the network edge, provisioning network services in proximity of mobile users …

Joint edge server placement and service placement in mobile-edge computing

X Zhang, Z Li, C Lai, J Zhang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There have been many studies focusing on edge server deployment and service placement
in mobile-edge computing (MEC), respectively, but rare works took both of them into …