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Cloud And Edge Computation Offloading For Latency Limited Services, Ivana Kovacevic, Erkki Harjula, Savo Glisic, Beatriz Lorenzo, Mika Ylianttila

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publication Series

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is recognised as a solution in future networks to offload computation and data storage from mobile and IoT devices to the servers at the edge of mobile networks. It reduces the network traffic and service latency compared to passing all data to cloud data centers while offering greater processing power than handling tasks locally at terminals. Since MEC servers are scattered throughout the radio access network, their computation capacities are modest in comparison to large cloud data centers. Therefore, offloading decision between MEC and cloud server should minimize the usage of the resources while maximizing the …