Joint Offloading and Computing Optimization in Wireless Powered Mobile-Edge Computing Systems

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1784-1797

  Wang, Feng ^a   Xu, Jie ^a   Wang, Xin ^b   Cui, Shuguang ^c,d  

^a GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data   (China)

Author keywords

computation offloading; convex optimization; energy beamforming; Mobile edge computing; wireless power transfer

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; BEAM FORMING NETWORKS; BEAMFORMING; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTERNET OF THINGS; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTATION OFFLOADING; DOWNLINK; EDGE COMPUTING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 85039762826     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2785305     Document Type: Article

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