{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4387681922","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2023.3324604","title":"Energy-Efficient Heuristic Computation Offloading With Delay Constraints in Mobile Edge Computing","display_name":"Energy-Efficient Heuristic Computation Offloading With Delay Constraints in Mobile Edge Computing","publication_year":2023,"publication_date":"2023-10-16","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4387681922","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2023.3324604"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/tsc.2023.3324604","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2023.3324604","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S204223317","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","issn_l":"1939-1374","issn":["1939-1374","2372-0204"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319808","host_organization_name":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5041640315","display_name":"Jing Mei","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6258-0114"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I173759888","display_name":"Hunan Normal University","ror":"https://ror.org/053w1zy07","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I173759888"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Jing Mei","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I173759888"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5004487040","display_name":"Zhao Tong","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-6364"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I173759888","display_name":"Hunan Normal University","ror":"https://ror.org/053w1zy07","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I173759888"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Zhao Tong","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I173759888"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5078793726","display_name":"Kenli Li","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2635-7716"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I16609230","display_name":"Hunan University","ror":"https://ror.org/05htk5m33","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I16609230"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Kenli Li","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University and National Supercomputing Center, Changsha, Hunan, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University and National Supercomputing Center, Changsha, Hunan, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I16609230"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5061896220","display_name":"Lianming Zhang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8956-6144"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I173759888","display_name":"Hunan Normal University","ror":"https://ror.org/053w1zy07","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I173759888"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Lianming Zhang","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I173759888"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5087894632","display_name":"Keqin Li","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5224-4048"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I157455823","display_name":"SUNY New Paltz","ror":"https://ror.org/03j3dv688","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I157455823"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I16609230","display_name":"Hunan University","ror":"https://ror.org/05htk5m33","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I16609230"]}],"countries":["CN","US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Keqin Li","raw_affiliation_strings":["College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University and National Supercomputing Center, Changsha, Hunan, China","Department of Computer Science, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, USA"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University and National Supercomputing Center, Changsha, Hunan, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I16609230"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Computer Science, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I157455823"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":5,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5041640315"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I173759888"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":6.0019,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":30,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.96725744,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":98,"max":100},"biblio":{"volume":"16","issue":"6","first_page":"4404","last_page":"4417"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10273","display_name":"IoT and Edge/Fog Computing","score":0.9998000264167786,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10273","display_name":"IoT and Edge/Fog Computing","score":0.9998000264167786,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10036","display_name":"Advanced Neural Network Applications","score":0.9904999732971191,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1707","display_name":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12079","display_name":"IoT Networks and Protocols","score":0.9882000088691711,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2208","display_name":"Electrical and Electronic Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.8715195655822754},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mobile-edge-computing","display_name":"Mobile edge computing","score":0.8070223331451416},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computation-offloading","display_name":"Computation offloading","score":0.7949936389923096},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/energy-consumption","display_name":"Energy consumption","score":0.5784012079238892},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/edge-computing","display_name":"Edge computing","score":0.5121781826019287},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/distributed-computing","display_name":"Distributed computing","score":0.5041664838790894},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/cloud-computing","display_name":"Cloud computing","score":0.5025699138641357},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/optimization-problem","display_name":"Optimization problem","score":0.4865957498550415},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/resource-allocation","display_name":"Resource allocation","score":0.48310160636901855},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/heuristic","display_name":"Heuristic","score":0.4750939607620239},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/bandwidth-allocation","display_name":"Bandwidth allocation","score":0.4303811192512512},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/wireless","display_name":"Wireless","score":0.4169074594974518},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mathematical-optimization","display_name":"Mathematical optimization","score":0.3979359269142151},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/bandwidth","display_name":"Bandwidth (computing)","score":0.31294140219688416},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-network","display_name":"Computer network","score":0.2252686619758606},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/algorithm","display_name":"Algorithm","score":0.1923317313194275}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.8715195655822754},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776061582","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25325231","display_name":"Mobile edge computing","level":3,"score":0.8070223331451416},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781041963","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18348618","display_name":"Computation offloading","level":4,"score":0.7949936389923096},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780165032","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16869822","display_name":"Energy consumption","level":2,"score":0.5784012079238892},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778456923","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5337692","display_name":"Edge computing","level":3,"score":0.5121781826019287},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C120314980","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180634","display_name":"Distributed computing","level":1,"score":0.5041664838790894},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C79974875","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483639","display_name":"Cloud computing","level":2,"score":0.5025699138641357},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C137836250","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q984063","display_name":"Optimization problem","level":2,"score":0.4865957498550415},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C29202148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287260","display_name":"Resource allocation","level":2,"score":0.48310160636901855},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C173801870","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201413","display_name":"Heuristic","level":2,"score":0.4750939607620239},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C200157131","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4854763","display_name":"Bandwidth allocation","level":3,"score":0.4303811192512512},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C555944384","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q249","display_name":"Wireless","level":2,"score":0.4169074594974518},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C126255220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141495","display_name":"Mathematical optimization","level":1,"score":0.3979359269142151},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776257435","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1576430","display_name":"Bandwidth (computing)","level":2,"score":0.31294140219688416},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31258907","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1301371","display_name":"Computer network","level":1,"score":0.2252686619758606},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C11413529","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8366","display_name":"Algorithm","level":1,"score":0.1923317313194275},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C86803240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420","display_name":"Biology","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C18903297","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7150","display_name":"Ecology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C76155785","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q418","display_name":"Telecommunications","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111919701","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9135","display_name":"Operating system","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/tsc.2023.3324604","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2023.3324604","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S204223317","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","issn_l":"1939-1374","issn":["1939-1374","2372-0204"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319808","host_organization_name":"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Services Computing","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"display_name":"Affordable and clean energy","score":0.7699999809265137,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/7"}],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G3130560883","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"61502165","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G4529572378","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"62372172","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G939302573","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"62072174","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China","ror":"https://ror.org/01h0zpd94"}],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":14,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1904504745","https://openalex.org/W2472333518","https://openalex.org/W2511425482","https://openalex.org/W2899515258","https://openalex.org/W2954039338","https://openalex.org/W2964054168","https://openalex.org/W2966223545","https://openalex.org/W2999376649","https://openalex.org/W3002486958","https://openalex.org/W3118359622","https://openalex.org/W3163162707","https://openalex.org/W3214390515","https://openalex.org/W4212789441","https://openalex.org/W6607432528"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4200420173","https://openalex.org/W3120617837","https://openalex.org/W3127808443","https://openalex.org/W2916011811","https://openalex.org/W3034137700","https://openalex.org/W4362496467","https://openalex.org/W2896883851","https://openalex.org/W2917127270","https://openalex.org/W3185499500","https://openalex.org/W3014317926"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"By":[0],"offloading":[1,46,69,105,156,194,216],"computation-intensive":[2],"tasks":[3,63,99,146],"to":[4,34,49,93,127,147,189,203,246,288],"the":[5,25,35,55,62,75,87,94,103,128,131,141,154,171,186,191,197,210,225,229,248,251,257,280,295],"edge":[6,9],"cloud,":[7],"mobile":[8,29],"computing":[10,40,233],"(MEC)":[11],"has":[12],"been":[13],"regarded":[14],"as":[15],"an":[16,218],"effective":[17,219],"technology":[18],"for":[19,162,196],"enhancing":[20],"computational":[21],"capacity":[22,117],"and":[23,39,79,106,114,153,232,279],"extending":[24],"battery":[26],"lifetime":[27],"of":[28,37,90,98,111,130,145,184,242,250,290,298],"devices":[30],"(MDs).":[31],"However,":[32],"due":[33],"limitation":[36],"bandwidth":[38],"resources":[41],"in":[42,109,118,123,224],"MEC,":[43],"unreasonable":[44],"task":[45,68,104,164,211,266],"might":[47],"lead":[48],"intensive":[50],"resource":[51,80,107,234],"competition,":[52],"which":[53,200],"recedes":[54],"performance":[56,249,262],"gains":[57],"benefit":[58],"from":[59],"offloading.":[60],"When":[61],"are":[64,236,244],"latency-sensitive,":[65],"a":[66,119,135,143,167,205,214],"proper":[67],"strategy":[70],"is":[71,138,150,158,188,201,222,273],"more":[72],"important.":[73],"Considering":[74],"heterogeneous":[76],"delay":[77,96,296],"constraints":[78,97],"competition":[81],"comprehensively,":[82],"we":[83],"aim":[84],"at":[85],"minimizing":[86],"energy":[88,173,291],"consumption":[89,174,292],"MDs":[91],"subject":[92],"individual":[95],"by":[100],"jointly":[101],"optimizing":[102],"allocation":[108,231,235],"terms":[110],"wireless":[112],"channel":[113,230],"remote":[115],"computation":[116],"multi-MD":[120],"MEC":[121],"system":[122],"this":[124,163],"paper.":[125],"Due":[126],"complexity":[129],"primal":[132],"optimization":[133,207],"problem,":[134],"heuristic":[136,258,271],"algorithm":[137,169,221,259,272],"devised.":[139],"In":[140],"algorithm,":[142],"subset":[144,165,212],"be":[148,178,204],"offloaded":[149],"incrementally":[151],"constructed,":[152],"corresponding":[155],"sub-problem":[157,187],"then":[159],"repeatedly":[160],"solved":[161],"using":[166],"two-stage":[168],"until":[170],"total":[172],"can":[175,285],"no":[176],"longer":[177],"further":[179],"reduced.":[180],"The":[181,269],"first":[182],"stage":[183,227],"solving":[185],"find":[190],"optimal":[192],"full":[193,215],"scheme":[195],"to-offload":[198],"tasks,":[199],"proved":[202],"convex":[206],"problem.":[208],"For":[209],"without":[213],"solution,":[217],"iterative":[220],"employed":[223],"second":[226],"where":[228],"optimized":[237],"alternately.":[238],"A":[239],"great":[240],"number":[241],"experiments":[243],"given":[245],"verify":[247],"proposed":[252,270],"algorithm.":[253],"We":[254],"observe":[255],"that":[256,283],"shows":[260],"different":[261,265],"when":[263],"adopting":[264],"ordering":[267],"schemes.":[268],"evaluated":[274],"against":[275],"three":[276],"reference":[277],"schemes,":[278],"results":[281],"show":[282],"it":[284],"save":[286],"up":[287],"14.20%":[289],"while":[293],"guaranteeing":[294],"requirements":[297],"all":[299],"tasks.":[300]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":20},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":7}],"updated_date":"2026-03-27T14:29:43.386196","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}