Mobile Edge Computing
暫譯: 行動邊緣運算

行動邊緣運算（Mobile Edge Computing, MEC）在行動網路的邊緣提供類似雲端的訂閱導向服務。對於低延遲和高帶寬的服務，邊緣運算輔助的物聯網（Internet of Things, IoT）已成為智慧環境及其應用（如智慧家庭、智慧健康、智慧交通管理、智慧農業和智慧城市）發展的支柱。本書涵蓋了MEC的基本概念及其即時應用。書籍內容分為三個部分：A部分涵蓋MEC的架構和工作模型，B部分專注於MEC的系統、平台、服務及相關議題，C部分則強調MEC的各種應用。

本書的目標讀者為研究生、研究人員、開發者及服務提供者，對於學習MEC技術的最新進展、創新應用及未來研究方向感興趣。

Anwesha Mukherjee has received B. Tech in Information Technology from Kalyani Govt. Engineering College in 2009. She has received M. Tech in Information Technology from West Bengal University of Technology in 2011. She stood first class first in M. Tech and received Inspire Fellowship from the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India to pursue her Ph.D. She has received Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology in 2018. She has worked as a Research Associate in the computer science department of IIT Kharagpur. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science, Mahishadal Raj College, West Bengal, India. Her research areas include IoT, Fog computing, mobile network, Geospatial informatics and mobile cloud computing. She has received the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science in 2014 at Beijing, China. She has published thirty six peer-reviewed articles in International journals including IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and ASP, ten International conference papers, and two book chapters.
Debashis De is Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of School of Computational Science of the West Bengal University of Technology, India, and Adjunct research fellow at the University of Western Australia, Australia. He was awarded the prestigious Boyscast Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to work at the Herriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK. He received the Endeavour Fellowship Award from 2008-2009 by DEST Australia to work at the University of Western Australia. He received the Young Scientist award both in 2005 at New Delhi and in 2011 at Istanbul, Turkey, from the International Union of Radio Science, Belgium. In 2016 he received JC bose research award by IETE, New Delhi. In 2019 he received Siksha Ranta Award by the Govt. of West Bengal. His research interests include mobile edge computing and IoT. He published in more than 300 peer-reviewed journals and 100 conference papers. He published eight research monographs in CRC, Springer, NOVA, Elsevier and five textbooks in Pearson.
Soumya K. Ghosh received the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India, in 1996 and 2002, respectively. He was with the Indian Space Research Organization, Bengaluru, India. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He is also head of the Institute information cell of IIT Kharagpur. He has published more than 200 research papers in reputed journals including IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, and conference proceedings. His current research interests include spatial data science, spatial web services, and cloud computing. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing. He served as a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council during 2012-2016. He has authored over 625 publications and seven text books including "Mastering Cloud Computing" published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets respectively. He also edited several books including "Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms" (Wiley Press, USA, Feb 2011). He is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=139, g-index=307, 106,000+ citations). "A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature" by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya as the World's Top-Cited (#1) Author and the World's Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing. Dr. Buyya is recognized as a "Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher" for five consecutive years since 2016, a Fellow of IEEE, and Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier and recently (2019) received "Lifetime Achievement Awards" from two Indian universities for his outstanding contributions to Cloud computing and distributed systems.Software technologies for Grid and Cloud computing developed under Dr.Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. Dr. Buyya has led the establishment and development of key community activities, including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences. These contributions and international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are recognized through the award of "2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing" from the IEEE Computer Society TCSC. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology developed under his leadership has received "2010 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award". Recently, Dr. Buyya received "Mahatma Gandhi Award" along with Gold Medals for his outstanding and extraordinary achievements in Information Technology field and services rendered to promote greater friendship and India-International cooperation. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, which was established 50 years ago.

Anwesha Mukherjee於2009年從Kalyani政府工程學院獲得資訊科技的學士學位（B. Tech）。她於2011年從西孟加拉科技大學獲得資訊科技的碩士學位（M. Tech），並在碩士學位中以優異成績名列第一，獲得印度政府科學與技術部的啟發獎學金（Inspire Fellowship）以繼續攻讀博士學位（Ph.D.）。她於2018年從西孟加拉科技大學獲得計算機科學與工程的博士學位。她曾在IIT Kharagpur的計算機科學系擔任研究助理，目前擔任印度西孟加拉Mahishadal Raj College計算機科學系的助理教授及系主任。她的研究領域包括物聯網（IoT）、霧計算（Fog computing）、行動網路、地理空間資訊學（Geospatial informatics）和行動雲計算（mobile cloud computing）。她於2014年在中國北京獲得國際無線科學聯合會的青年科學家獎。她在包括IEEE、IET、Elsevier、Springer、Wiley和ASP等國際期刊上發表了三十六篇經過同行評審的文章，十篇國際會議論文，以及兩章書籍。

Debashis De是印度西孟加拉科技大學計算機科學與工程系的教授及計算科學學院的院長，同時也是澳大利亞西澳大利亞大學的兼任研究員。他曾獲得印度政府科學與技術部頒發的著名Boyscast獎學金，在英國蘇格蘭的赫瑞瓦特大學工作。他於2008年至2009年獲得澳大利亞DEST頒發的Endeavour獎學金，在西澳大利亞大學工作。他在2005年於新德里和2011年於土耳其伊斯坦堡獲得比利時國際無線科學聯合會的青年科學家獎。2016年，他獲得新德里IETE頒發的JC Bose研究獎。2019年，他獲得西孟加拉政府的Siksha Ranta獎。他的研究興趣包括行動邊緣計算和物聯網（IoT）。他在300多個經過同行評審的期刊和100篇會議論文上發表過作品。他在CRC、Springer、NOVA、Elsevier出版了八本研究專著，並在Pearson出版了五本教科書。

Soumya K. Ghosh於1996年和2002年分別從印度IIT Kharagpur的計算機科學與工程系獲得碩士（M.Tech.）和博士（Ph.D.）學位。他曾在印度空間研究組織（ISRO）工作，目前是IIT Kharagpur計算機科學與工程系的教授，並擔任該校資訊單位的負責人。他在包括IEEE、ACM、Elsevier等知名期刊及會議論文集中發表了200多篇研究論文。他目前的研究興趣包括空間數據科學、空間網路服務和雲計算。他是IEEE的資深會員。

Rajkumar Buyya博士是澳大利亞墨爾本大學的Redmond Barry傑出教授及雲計算與分散式系統（CLOUDS）實驗室的主任。他同時擔任Manjrasoft的創始執行長，這是一家商業化雲計算創新技術的校園衍生公司。他在2012年至2016年間擔任澳大利亞研究委員會的未來研究員（Future Fellow）。他已發表超過625篇出版物和七本教科書，包括由McGraw Hill、中國機械出版社和Morgan Kaufmann出版的《Mastering Cloud Computing》，針對印度、中國及國際市場。他還編輯了幾本書籍，包括《Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms》（Wiley Press, USA, 2011年2月）。他是全球計算機科學和軟體工程領域中被引用次數最多的作者之一（h-index=139, g-index=307，引用次數超過106,000次）。德國科學家發表的《A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature》將Buyya博士評為全球引用次數最高的作者（#1）及雲計算領域中產出最多的作者（#1）。自2016年以來，Buyya博士連續五年被認定為「Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher」，並且是IEEE的院士，2017年獲得Scopus年度研究者獎，並因其在創新研究方面的卓越表現獲得Elsevier的卓越創新研究獎，最近（2019年）獲得兩所印度大學頒發的「終身成就獎」，以表彰他在雲計算和分散式系統方面的傑出貢獻。在Buyya博士的領導下，為Grid和雲計算開發的軟體技術已迅速獲得接受，並在全球40個國家的多所學術機構和商業企業中使用。Buyya博士主導了多項社群活動的建立和發展，包括擔任IEEE可擴展計算技術委員會的創始主席及五場IEEE/ACM會議的主席。Buyya博士的這些貢獻和國際研究領導力獲得了IEEE計算機學會TCSC頒發的「2009 IEEE可擴展計算卓越獎」。Manjrasoft的Aneka雲技術在他的領導下獲得了「2010 Frost & Sullivan新產品創新獎」。最近，Buyya博士因其在資訊科技領域的卓越成就及促進印度與國際間更大友誼與合作的服務，獲得「甘地獎」及金獎。他曾擔任IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing的創始主編，目前擔任《Journal of Software: Practice and Experience》的共同主編，該期刊成立於50年前。