Three-Tier Capacity and Traffic Allocation for Core, Edges, and Devices for Mobile Edge Computing

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 923-933

  Lin, Ying Dar ^a   Lai, Yuan Cheng ^b   Huang, Jian Xun ^b   Chien, Hsu Tung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

capacity allocation; Iterative optimization; mobile edge computing (MEC); three tier architecture

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS; EDGE COMPUTING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; QUEUEING THEORY;

CAPACITY ALLOCATION; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; LATENCY CONSTRAINTS; MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING; OPTIMAL TRAFFIC ALLOCATION; THREE-TIER ARCHITECTURE; TRAFFIC ALLOCATION; TWO-TIER ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 85049444427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19324537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2018.2852643     Document Type: Article

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