Quantifying the Influence of Intermittent Connectivity on Mobile Edge Computing
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Abstract
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a key technology that enables the deployment of applications (or services) at the proximity of mobile users. However, the performance of mobile edge computing is sensitive to the quality and availability of underlying connection links. It is still unclear to what extent intermittent connectivity affects the performance of mobile edge computing. In this paper, we make the first attempt to quantify the influence of intermittent connectivity on mobile edge computing from a theoretical perspective. Specifically, we propose an analytical framework based on discrete-time Markov chain and derive a closed-form expression of the task processing time under different network conditions. Our model can be further extended to account for the case with group task arrivals. We also conduct extensive simulations to examine the accuracy of our proposed analytical models with both synthetic and real-world user mobility traces. The results show that our model can well capture the influence of intermittent connectivity on MEC. Our model sheds important insights into the impact of intermittent connectivity on task processing in MEC, which we believe should be taken into account when designing future MEC systems.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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