Currently, we are witnessing a proliferation of services and applications that are provided at the edge of the Internet. The Internet edge includes traditional access networks, such as wireless local area networks (WiFi), wireless metropolitan area networks (3G, 4G, and 5G), as well as various emerging systems, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, smart cities, and connected vehicle systems. Although the requirements from edge services and applications are becoming higher and higher, edge devices (such as mobile phones, tablets, sensors, autonomous agents, and other IoT devices) are still limited in terms of storage size, computation capacity, communication bandwidth, battery life, etc. Recently, the edge computing paradigm, which extends cloud computing to the edge of the Internet, has been proposed to support various services and applications at the edge of the Internet.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions of original research in various fields closely related to edge and cloud computing, such as fog computing, dew computing, cloudlets, mobile edge computing, multi-access edge computing, edge-computing-assisted intelligence systems, emerging applications with edge computing, IoT systems, smart homes, smart cities, connected vehicles, etc.


Guest Editors:

Prof. Dr. Dawei Li
Prof. Dr. Minjun Xiao
Prof. Dr. Sadoon Azizi
Prof. Dr. Wei Chang
Prof. Dr. Ning Wang
Prof. Dr. Huan Zhou



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Keywords:

Mobile edge computing
Multi-access edge computing
Edge computing
Cloud computing
Cloudlet
IoT systems
Fog computing
Dew computing
Edge computing and smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities
Edge computing assisted autonomous driving
Edge computing and connected vehicles
Edge computing and emerging applications