MULTI-ACCESS MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING FOR HETEROGENEOUS IOT

The articles in this special section focus on multi-Access mobile edge computing (MA-MEC) for heterogeneous Internet of Things applications. These articles aim at soliciting high quality and unpublished work regarding recent advances in MA-MEC, with the main focus on addressing the fundamental design issues in MA-MEC, and the emerging paradigms and testbeds that use MA-MEC.The convergence of mobile Internet and wireless systems has witnessed an explosive growth in resource-hungry and computation-intensive services and applications, which cover a wide range of so-called heterogeneous Internet of Things (H-IoTs) systems including real-Time video/audio surveillance, remote e-health systems, intelligent transportation systems, Internet of Vehicles, etc. Mobile edge computing, by placing various cloud resources (e.g., computational and storage resources) closer to smart devices/objects, has been envisioned as an enabling and highly promising technology to realize and reap the promising benefi ts of H-IoTs applications. © 1979-2012 IEEE.