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The aim of this paper is to propose a computation offloading strategy for mobile edge computing. We exploit the concept of call graph, which models a generic computer program as a set of procedures related to each other through a weighted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Sergio Barbarossa , Stefania Sardellitti

With the growing workload of inference tasks on mobile devices, state-of-the-art neural architectures (NAs) are typically designed through Neural Architecture Search (NAS) to identify NAs with good tradeoffs between accuracy and efficiency…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Zhuojin Li , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

Code offloading refers to partitioning software and migrating the mobile codes to other computational entities for processing. Often when a large number of mobile codes need to be distributed to many heterogenous hosts, this can easily lead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Nevin Vunka Jungum , Nawaz Mohamudally , Nimal Nissanke

This letter proposes a new user cooperative offloading protocol called user reciprocity in backscatter communication (BackCom)-aided mobile edge computing systems with efficient computation, whose quintessence is that each user can switch…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Bowen Gu , Hao Xie , Dong Li

Mobile edge computing is beneficial to reduce service response time and core network traffic by pushing cloud functionalities to network edge. Equipped with storage and computation capacities, edge nodes can cache services of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xiao Ma , Ao Zhou , Shan Zhang , Shangguang Wang

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark are often used to process large-scale data computing jobs. In wireless scenarios, exchanging data among distributed nodes would seriously suffer from the communication bottleneck…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Youlong Wu , Zhenhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Shuai Ma , Yue Bi

Coded distributed computing has been considered as a promising technique which makes large-scale systems robust to the "straggler" workers. Yet, practical system models for distributed computing have not been available that reflect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Muah Kim , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

Compute-and-forward (CF) harnesses interference in a wireless networkby allowing relays to compute combinations of source messages. The computed message combinations at relays are correlated, and so directly forwarding these combinations to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Yihua Tan , Xiaojun Yuan

This paper proposes a communication-efficient, event-triggered inference framework for cooperative edge AI systems comprising multiple user devices and edge servers. Building upon dual-threshold early-exit strategies for rare-event…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Thai T. Vu , John Le

Deploying large language models (LLMs) on edge devices is crucial for delivering fast responses and ensuring data privacy. However, the limited storage, weight, and power of edge devices make it difficult to deploy LLM-powered applications.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chunlin Tian , Xinpeng Qin , Kahou Tam , Li Li , Zijian Wang , Yuanzhe Zhao , Minglei Zhang , Chengzhong Xu

The current trend in end-user devices' advancements in computing and communication capabilities makes edge computing an attractive solution to pave the way for the coveted ultra-low latency services. The success of the edge computing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Sam Aleyadeh , Abdallah Moubayed , Abdallah Shami

In this paper, we are interested in improving the performance of constructive network coding schemes in lossy wireless environments.We propose I2NC - a cross-layer approach that combines inter-session and intra-session network coding and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-24 Hulya Seferoglu , Athina Markopoulou , K. K. Ramakrishnan

IoT applications increasingly rely on on-device AI accelerators to ensure high performance, especially in low-connectivity and safety-critical scenarios. However, the limited on-chip memory of these accelerators forces inference runtimes to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nathan Ng , Walid A. Hanafy , Prashanthi Kadambi , Balachandra Sunil , Ayush Gupta , David Irwin , Yogesh Simmhan , Prashant Shenoy

In this letter, we propose an energy-efficient split learning (SL) framework for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) using geo-distributed personal data at the network edge, where LLMs are split and alternately across massive mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zuguang Li , Shaohua Wu , Liang Li , Songge Zhang

Recently, the integration of mobile edge computing (MEC) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology has given rise to a new area called mobile edge generation and computing (MEGC), which offers mobile users heterogeneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Yinyu Wu , Xuhui Zhang , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum is expected to support data-intensive applications that require ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). However, mmWave links are highly sensitive to blockage, which may lead to disruptions in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mine Gokce Dogan , Jaimin Shah , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli , Wei Mao , Hosein Nikopour , Rath Vannithamby

By offloading intensive computation tasks to the edge cloud located at the cellular base stations, mobile-edge computation offloading (MECO) has been regarded as a promising means to accomplish the ambitious millisecond-scale end-to-end…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Jinke Ren , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai , Yinghui He

MapReduce is a commonly used framework for executing data-intensive jobs on distributed server clusters. We introduce a variant implementation of MapReduce, namely "Coded MapReduce", to substantially reduce the inter-server communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Songze Li , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Codes are widely used in many engineering applications to offer robustness against noise. In large-scale systems there are several types of noise that can affect the performance of distributed machine learning algorithms -- straggler nodes,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Kangwook Lee , Maximilian Lam , Ramtin Pedarsani , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Kannan Ramchandran

We consider the design of coding schemes for the wireless two-way relaying channel when there is no channel state information at the transmitter. In the spirit of the compute and forward paradigm, we present a multilevel coding scheme that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Brett Hern , Krishna Narayanan