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The widespread adoption of large artificial intelligence (AI) models has enabled numerous applications of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, large AI models require substantial computational and memory resources, which exceed the…

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As billions of devices get connected to the Internet, it will not be sustainable to use the cloud as a centralised server. The way forward is to decentralise computations away from the cloud towards the edge of the network closer to the…

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Energy-harvesting technology provides a promising platform for future IoT applications. However, since communication is very expensive in these devices, applications will require inference "beyond the edge" to avoid wasting precious energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Graham Gobieski , Nathan Beckmann , Brandon Lucia

As the number of edge devices with computing resources (e.g., embedded GPUs, mobile phones, and laptops) increases, recent studies demonstrate that it can be beneficial to collaboratively run convolutional neural network (CNN) inference on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Xueyu Hou , Yongjie Guan , Tao Han , Ning Zhang

To deploy machine learning-based algorithms for real-time applications with strict latency constraints, we consider an edge-computing setting where a subset of inputs are offloaded to the edge for processing by an accurate but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Ayan Chakrabarti , Roch Guérin , Chenyang Lu , Jiangnan Liu

Edge computing is the natural progression from Cloud computing, where, instead of collecting all data and processing it centrally, like in a cloud computing environment, we distribute the computing power and try to do as much processing as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Navjot Kukreja , Alena Shilova , Olivier Beaumont , Jan Huckelheim , Nicola Ferrier , Paul Hovland , Gerard Gorman

Computation offloading becomes useful for users of limited computing power and mobile edge computing (MEC) can help mobile users perform their tasks more effectively. In this paper, we consider MEC when users perform tasks with local data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinho Choi

In mobile edge computing systems, an edge node may have a high load when a large number of mobile devices offload their tasks to it. Those offloaded tasks may experience large processing delay or even be dropped when their deadlines expire.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Ming Tang , Vincent W. S. Wong

The deployment of inference services at the network edge, called edge inference, offloads computation-intensive inference tasks from mobile devices to edge servers, thereby enhancing the former's capabilities and battery lives. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiyan Liu , Qiao Lan , Kaibin Huang

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) broadens the scope of computation and storage beyond the central network, incorporating edge nodes close to end devices. This expansion facilitates the implementation of large-scale "connected things" within edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ning Yang , Shuo Chen , Haijun Zhang , Randall Berry

Modern edge devices increasingly rely on neural networks for intelligent applications. However, conventional digital computing-based edge inference requires substantial memory and energy consumption. In analog radio frequency (RF)…

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Deep neural networks require large amounts of resources which makes them hard to use on resource constrained devices such as Internet-of-things devices. Offloading the computations to the cloud can circumvent these constraints but…

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Motivated by applications such as on-device collaborative neural network inference, this work investigates edge-facilitated collaborative fog computing - in which edge-devices collaborate with each other and with the edge of the network to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Antoine Paris , Hamed Mirghasemi , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

It has been a long standing problem to securely outsource computation tasks to an untrusted party with integrity and confidentiality guarantees. While fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a promising technique that allows computations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Wenhao Wang , Yichen Jiang , Qintao Shen , Weihao Huang , Hao Chen , Shuang Wang , XiaoFeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Kai Chen , Kristin Lauter , Dongdai Lin

Edge computing is deemed a promising technique to execute latency-sensitive applications by offloading computation-intensive tasks to edge servers. Extensive research has been conducted in the field of end-device to edge server task…

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As the explosive growth of smart devices and the advent of many new applications, traffic volume has been growing exponentially. The traditional centralized network architecture cannot accommodate such user demands due to heavy burden on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Shuo Wang , Xing Zhang , Yan Zhang , Lin Wang , Juwo Yang , Wenbo Wang

Cache-assisted ultra-dense mobile edge computing (MEC) networks are a promising solution for meeting the increasing demands of numerous Internet-of-Things mobile devices (IMDs). To address the complex interferences caused by small base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Tianqing Zhou , Bobo Wang , Dong Qin , Xuefang Nie , Nan Jiang , Chunguo Li

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful foundation for intelligent reasoning and decision-making, demonstrating substantial impact across a wide range of domains and applications. However, their massive parameter scales and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mingyu Sun , Xiao Zhang , Shen Qu , Yan Li , Mengbai Xiao , Yuan Yuan , Dongxiao Yu

Battery-powered wireless IoT devices are now widely seen in many critical applications. Given the limited battery capacity and inaccessibility to external power recharge, optimizing energy efficiency (EE) plays a vital role in prolonging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Jianqing Liu , Yawei Pang , Haichuan Ding , Ling Cai , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang

Beyond point solutions, the vision of edge computing is to enable web services to deploy their edge functions in a multi-tenant infrastructure present at the edge of mobile networks. However, edge functions can be rendered useless because…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ketan Bhardwaj , Ming-Wei Shih , Ada Gavrilovska , Taesoo Kim , Chengyu Song