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Low harvested energy poses a significant challenge to sustaining continuous communication in energy harvesting (EH)-powered wireless sensor networks. This is mainly due to intermittent and limited power availability from radio frequency…

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The inference of Neural Networks is usually restricted by the resources (e.g., computing power, memory, bandwidth) on edge devices. In addition to improving the hardware design and deploying efficient models, it is possible to aggregate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Jun-Liang Lin , Sheng-De Wang

The rapid advancements in machine learning techniques have led to significant achievements in various real-world robotic tasks. These tasks heavily rely on fast and energy-efficient inference of deep neural network (DNN) models when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zekai Sun , Xiuxian Guan , Junming Wang , Haoze Song , Yuhao Qing , Tianxiang Shen , Dong Huang , Fangming Liu , Heming Cui

Deep neural network (DNN) inference has become an important part of many data-center workloads. This has prompted focused efforts to design ever-faster deep learning accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs. However, an end-to-end DNN-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ahmed F. AbouElhamayed , Susanne Balle , Deshanand Singh , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

As the number of connected IoT devices continues to grow, securing these systems against cyber threats remains a major challenge, especially in environments with limited computational and energy resources. This paper presents an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Saeid Jamshidi , Amin Nikanjam , Negar Shahabi , Kawser Wazed Nafi , Foutse Khomh , Samira Keivanpour , Rolando Herrero

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art solutions for many machine learning applications, and have been widely used on mobile devices. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices often requires the help from edge servers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Wenqi Shi , Yunzhong Hou , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Yang Zhang , Lu Geng

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have driven increasing intelligent applications at the network edge, such as smart home, smart factory, and smart city. To deploy computationally intensive Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Liekang Zeng , Xu Chen , Zhi Zhou , Lei Yang , Junshan Zhang

State-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have hundreds of millions of connections and are both computationally and memory intensive, making them difficult to deploy on embedded systems with limited hardware resources and power budgets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Song Han , Xingyu Liu , Huizi Mao , Jing Pu , Ardavan Pedram , Mark A. Horowitz , William J. Dally

The escalating challenges of managing vast sensor-generated data, particularly in audio applications, necessitate innovative solutions. Current systems face significant computational and storage demands, especially in real-time applications…

Outdoor acoustic events detection is an exciting research field but challenged by the need for complex algorithms and deep learning techniques, typically requiring many computational, memory, and energy resources. This challenge discourages…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 Gianmarco Cerutti , Rahul Prasad , Alessio Brutti , Elisabetta Farella

Energy harvesting is a promising technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) towards the goal of self-sustainability of the involved devices. However, the intermittent and unreliable nature of the harvested energy demands an intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Chiara Pielli , Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski , Michele Zorzi

We consider an IoT sensing network with multiple users, multiple energy harvesting sensors, and a wireless edge node acting as a gateway between the users and sensors. The users request for updates about the value of physical processes,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Mohammad Hatami , Mojtaba Jahandideh , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been increasingly deployed on and integrated with edge devices, such as mobile phones, drones, robots and wearables. To run DNN inference directly on edge devices (a.k.a. edge inference) with a satisfactory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Bingqian Lu , Jianyi Yang , Shaolei Ren

With the increasing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, there is a growing need for energy-efficient Machine Learning (ML) models that can run on constrained edge nodes. Decision tree ensembles, such as Random Forests (RFs) and…

Mobile edge devices (e.g., AR/VR headsets) typically need to complete timely inference tasks while operating with limited on-board computing and energy resources. In this paper, we investigate the problem of collaborative inference in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Jacob Chakareski , Morteza Hashemi

We propose EdgeSpike, a co-designed spiking neural network (SNN) framework for autonomous low-power sensing in edge Internet of Things (IoT) architectures. EdgeSpike unifies (i) a hybrid surrogate-gradient and direct-encoding training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Gustav Olaf Yunus Laitinen-Fredriksson Lundstrom-Imanov , Taner Yilmaz

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown significant advantages in a wide variety of domains. However, DNNs are becoming computationally intensive and energy hungry at an exponential pace, while at the same time, there is a vast demand for…

Almost in every heavily computation-dependent application, from 6G communication systems to autonomous driving platforms, a large portion of computing should be near to the client side. Edge computing (AI at Edge) in mobile devices is one…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Seyed Nima Omidsajedi , Rekha Reddy , Jianming Yi , Jan Herbst , Christoph Lipps , Hans Dieter Schotten

Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision (CV). However, training and inference of DNN models are both memory and computation intensive, incurring significant overhead in terms of energy consumption and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Tao Luo , Wai Teng Tang , Matthew Kay Fei Lee , Chuping Qu , Weng-Fai Wong , Rick Goh

We study the problem of finding efficient sampling policies in an edge-based feedback system, where sensor samples are offloaded to a back-end server that processes them and generates feedback to a user. Sampling the system at maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Vishnu Narayanan Moothedath , Jaya Prakash Champati , James Gross