With the widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of connected
devices is growing at an exponential rate, which is contributing to ever-increasing, massive …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is considered an essential future service for the
implementation of 5G networks and the Internet of Things, as it is the best method of …

Compared to traditional distributed computing environments such as grids, cloud computing
provides a more cost-effective way to deploy scientific workflows. Each task of a scientific …

As latency is the key performance metric for IoT applications, fog nodes co-located with
cellular base stations can move the computing resources close to IoT devices. Therefore …

Mobile devices have several restrictions due to design choices that guarantee their mobility.
A way of surpassing such limitations is to utilize cloud servers called cloudlets on the edge …

Cloud computing is an important technology for bringing a big pool of elastic resources to
client devices. Their main drawback has long been the long distance between users and …

Edge cloudlets are promising to mitigate the high network delay incurred by the remote
cloud in executing workloads offloaded from a user equipment (UE). However, the response …

In the public safety sector, 5G offers immense opportunities for enhancing mission-critical
services by provisioning virtualized service functions at the network edge, which enables …

In a traditional big data network, data streams generated by User Equipments (UEs) are
uploaded to the remote cloud (for further processing) via the Internet. However, moving a …

5G systems are envisioned to support numerous delay-sensitive applications such as the
tactile Internet, mobile gaming, and augmented reality. Such applications impose new …