Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Edge-Based IoT Networks With Demand Uncertainty

Due to ubiquitous increase of mobile services and powerful Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, the interest for mobile-edge computing (MEC) solutions has grown both in industry and academia. One of the fundamental mechanisms of MEC is offloading, i.e., delegation of a computation from the user to a server (set) placed near to the edge. Edge servers may have poor incentives to run a delegated service...