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CloudAIBus: a testbed for AI based cloud computing environments
Smart resource allocation is essential for optimising cloud computing efficiency and utilisation, but it is also very challenging as traditional approaches often overprovision CPU resources, leading to financi...
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A bandwidth-fair migration-enabled task offloading for vehicular edge computing: a deep reinforcement learning approach
Vehicular edge computing (VEC), which extends the computing, storage, and networking resources from the cloud center to the logical network edge through the deployment of edge servers at the road-side unit (RS...
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Multi-stage Optimization of Incentive Mechanisms for Mobile Crowd Sensing Based on Top-Trading Cycles
For collaborative tasks requiring multiple users, in Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS), low user interest in certain tasks usually results in insufficient user re-cruitment. However, the interest of the user directly...
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LDRNet: Enabling Real-Time Document Localization on Mobile Devices
Modern online services often require mobile devices to convert paper-based information into its digital counterpart, e.g., passport, ownership documents, etc. This process relies on Document Localization (DL) ...
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Temporal Graph Representation Learning with Adaptive Augmentation Contrastive
Temporal graph representation learning aims to generate low-dimensional dynamic node embeddings to capture temporal information as well as structural and property information. Current representation learning m...
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ChainsFormer: A Chain Latency-Aware Resource Provisioning Approach for Microservices Cluster
The trend towards transitioning from monolithic applications to microservices has been widely embraced in modern distributed systems and applications. This shift has resulted in the creation of lightweight, fi...
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Joint optimization of task caching and computation offloading in vehicular edge computing
The recent surge in the number of connected vehicles and vehicular applications really benefits citizens. Various vehicular applications are developed to cater for the increasingly sophisticated demands of dri...
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A Spectral Clustering Algorithm Based on Differential Privacy Preservation
Spectral clustering is a widely used clustering algorithm based on the advantages of simple implementation, small computational cost, and good adaptability to arbitrarily shaped data sets. However, due to the ...
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DoSP: A Deadline-Aware Dynamic Service Placement Algorithm for Workflow-Oriented IoT Applications in Fog-Cloud Computing Environments
The next generation Internet of Things (IoT) applications are offering multiple services and run in a distributed heterogeneous environment. In such applications, Quality of Service (QoS) requirements are in j...
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Green-Aware Mobile Edge Computing for IoT: Challenges, Solutions and Future Directions
The development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology enables the rapid growth of connected smart devices and mobile applications. However, due to the constrained resources and limited battery capacity, there...
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Co-regulatory role of Microcystis colony cell volume and compactness in buoyancy during the growth stage
The buoyancy of Microcystis colonies determines the occurrence and dominance of bloom on the water surface. Besides the cell density regulation and the formation of larger size aggregates, increases in cell volum...
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Effects of organic carbon consumption on denitrifier community composition and diversity along dissolved oxygen vertical profiles in lake sediment surface
At present, the understanding of the dynamics of denitrifiers at different dissolved oxygen (DO) layers under organic carbon consumption within the surface sediments remains inadequate. In this study, high-thr...
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Open AccessDeep learning-driven wireless communication for edge-cloud computing: opportunities and challenges
Future wireless communications are becoming increasingly complex with different radio access technologies, transmission backhauls, and network slices, and they play an important role in the emerging edge compu...
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UAV-Enabled Social Internet of Vehicles: Roles, Security Issues and Use Cases
Social internet of vehicle (SIoV), also termed vehicular social network (VSN), endeavors to integrate social networking related concepts into IoV, with an aim to make vehicles capable of social communication a...
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Open AccessBlocking the PD-1/PD-L1 axis enhanced cisplatin chemotherapy in osteosarcoma in vitro and in vivo
The blocking of the programmed cell death protein (PD-1)/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) axis has been found to have an anticancer activity against various types of cancer by enhancing T cell immunity, while...
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An Optimal Offloading Partitioning Algorithm in Mobile Cloud Computing
Application partitioning splits the executions into local and remote parts. Through optimal partitioning, the device can obtain the most benefit from computation offloading. Due to unstable resources at the wi...
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Analysis of mHealth Systems with Multi-cloud Computing Offloading
Owing to the latest technologies in wireless communication and the development of mobile devices, related issues in mobile computing are becoming more and more concerned [1-2]. However, it is challenging to ru...
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Dynamic Transmission Scheduling and Link Selection in Mobile Cloud Computing
Recently, mobile devices have multiple wireless interfaces to use, but how to choose an appropriate network interface? Energy-efficient data transmission is a key issue in mobile cloud computing due to energy-...
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Some Properties of the Continuous Single-Valley Expansion Solution to the Feigenbaum’s Functional Equation
In this paper, some fundamental properties of the continuous single-valley expansion solution to Feigenbaum’s functional equation were obtained. For λε (0,1) and p ≥ 2, we will discuss the completeness of the fun...
