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Context: Microservices running and being powered by Edge Computing have been gaining much attention in the industry and academia. Since 2014, when Martin Fowler popularized the Microservice term, many studies have been published relating…
For effective use of edge computing in an IoT application, we need to partition the application into tasks and map them into the cloud, fog (edge server), device levels such that the resources at the different levels are optimally used to…
With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the birth of various new IoT devices, the capacity of massive IoT devices is facing challenges. Fortunately, edge computing can optimize problems such as delay and connectivity by…
To support the growing demand for data-intensive and low-latency IoT applications, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is emerging as an effective edge-computing approach enabling the execution of delay-sensitive processing tasks close to…
Industrial organisations, particularly Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME), face a number of challenges with regard to the adoption of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies and methods. The scope of analytics processing…
Pervasive computing involves the placement of processing services close to end users to support intelligent applications. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Edge Computing (EC), one can find room for placing services at…
When applying integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in future mobile networks, many sensing tasks have low latency requirements, preferably being implemented at terminals. However, terminals often have limited computing capabilities…
Deep learning for human sensing on edge systems presents significant potential for smart applications. However, its training and development are hindered by the limited availability of sensor data and resource constraints of edge systems.…
In recent years, there is an emerging trend that some computing services are moving from cloud to the edge of the networks. Compared to cloud computing, edge computing can provide services with faster response, lower expense, and more…
Incorporating mobile edge computing (MEC) in Internet of Things (IoT) enables resource-limited IoT devices to offload their computation tasks to a nearby edge server. In this paper, we investigate an IoT system assisted by the MEC technique…
With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, ensuring secure communications has become imperative. Due to their low cost and embedded nature, many of these devices operate with computational and energy constraints, neglecting…
Edge computing has become a popular paradigm where services and applications are deployed at the network edge closer to the data sources. It provides applications with outstanding benefits, including reduced response latency and enhanced…
To address the increased latency, network load and compromised privacy issues associated with the Cloud-centric IoT applications, fog computing has emerged. Fog computing utilizes the proximal computational and storage devices, for sensor…
Mobile edge computing facilitates users to offload computation tasks to edge servers for meeting their stringent delay requirements. Previous works mainly explore task offloading when system-side information is given (e.g., server…
Next-generation smart city applications, attributed by the power of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), significantly rely on the quality of sensing data. With an exponential increase in intelligent applications for…
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential for speech-to-text translation (S2TT). However, existing deployment paradigms face critical challenges: pure on-device models suffer from resource constraints,…
While deploying large language models on edge devices promises low-latency and privacy-preserving AI services, it is hindered by limited device resources. Although pipeline parallelism facilitates distributed inference, existing approaches…
Two-stage object detectors exhibit high accuracy and precise localization, especially for identifying small objects that are favorable for various edge applications. However, the high computation costs associated with two-stage detection…
Spatiotemporal data are being produced in continuously growing volumes by a variety of data sources and a variety of application fields rely on rapid analysis of such data. Existing systems such as PostGIS or MobilityDB usually build on…
High throughput and low latency data processing is essential for systems requiring live decision making, control, and machine learning-optimized data reduction. We focus on two distinct use cases for in-flight streaming data processing for…