Task Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing in Software Defined Ultra-Dense Network

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 587-597

  Chen, Min ^a,b   Hao, Yixue ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

mobile edge computing; resource allocation; Software defined networking; task offloading

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; EDGE COMPUTING; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; JOB ANALYSIS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOBILE DEVICES; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING;

MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING; MOBILE HANDSETS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TASK ANALYSIS; TASK OFFLOADING;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85043485490     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2018.2815360     Document Type: Article

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