Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in Wireless Cellular Networks with Mobile Edge Computing

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 4924-4938

  Wang, Chenmeng ^a   Liang, Chengchao ^b   Yu, F Richard ^b   Chen, Qianbin ^a   Tang, Lun ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

computation offloading; in network caching; Mobile edge computing; resource allocation; small cell networks

Indexed keywords

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; ECONOMICS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ALTERNATING DIRECTION METHOD OF MULTIPLIERS; COMPUTATION OFFLOADING; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; EDGE COMPUTING; IN NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SMALL CELL NETWORKS; WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORKS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 85029592539     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2703901     Document Type: Article

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