Dynamic Resource Scheduling in Mobile Edge Cloud with Cloud Radio Access Network

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 2429-2445

  Wang, Xinhou ^a   Wang, Kezhi ^b   Wu, Song ^a   Di, Sheng ^c   Jin, Hai ^a   Yang, Kun ^d   Ou, Shumao ^e  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud radio access network; Lyapunov optimization; mobile edge computing; power performance tradeoff; scheduling

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CONTAINERS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; RADIO; SCHEDULING; STANDARDS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLOUD RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; LYAPUNOV OPTIMIZATIONS; MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING; MOBILE HANDSETS; POWER DEMANDS; POWER PERFORMANCE; PROCESSOR SCHEDULING;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85046374563     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: 15582183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2018.2832124     Document Type: Article

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