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Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is viewed as an integral part of future wireless networks to support new applications with stringent service reliability and latency requirements. However, guaranteeing ultra-reliable and low-latency MEC…

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Implementing machine learning algorithms on Internet of things (IoT) devices has become essential for emerging applications, such as autonomous driving, environment monitoring. But the limitations of computation capability and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xiufeng Huang , Sheng Zhou

Cooperative inference in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), achieved by deploying partitioned Deep Neural Network (DNN) models between resource-constrained user equipments (UEs) and edge servers (ESs), has emerged as a promising paradigm.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Xinrui Ye , Yanzan Sun , Dingzhu Wen , Guanjin Pan , Shunqing Zhang

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…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dailin Yang , Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song

The network edge's role in Artificial Intelligence (AI) inference processing is rapidly expanding, driven by a plethora of applications seeking computational advantages. These applications strive for data-driven efficiency, leveraging…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Roberto Morabito , Mallik Tatipamula , Sasu Tarkoma , Mung Chiang

In this paper, we study the framework of collaborative inference, or edge ensembles. This framework enables multiple edge devices to improve classification accuracy by exchanging intermediate features rather than raw observations. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Mateus P. Mota , Mattia Merluzzi , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Low-Latency IoT applications such as autonomous vehicles, augmented/virtual reality devices and security applications require high computation resources to make decisions on the fly. However, these kinds of applications cannot tolerate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Amine Abouaomar , Soumaya Cherkaoui , Zoubeir Mlika , Abdellatif Kobbane

Edge computing is an emerging concept based on distributing computing, storage, and control services closer to end network nodes. Edge computing lies at the heart of the fifth generation (5G) wireless systems and beyond. While current…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Mohammed S. Elbamby , Cristina Perfecto , Chen-Feng Liu , Jihong Park , Sumudu Samarakoon , Xianfu Chen , Mehdi Bennis

The sixth-generation (6G) mobile network is envisioned to incorporate sensing and edge artificial intelligence (AI) as two key functions. Their natural convergence leads to the emergence of Integrated Sensing and Edge AI (ISEA), a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhiyan Liu , Kaibin Huang

As the next-generation wireless communication system, Sixth-Generation (6G) technologies are emerging, enabling various mobile edge networks that can revolutionize wireless communication and connectivity. By integrating Generative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Bingkun Lai , Jinbo Wen , Jiawen Kang , Hongyang Du , Jiangtian Nie , Changyan Yi , Dong In Kim , Shengli Xie

The rapid growth of IoT devices has led to an enormous amount of sensor data that requires transmission to cloud servers for processing, resulting in excessive network congestion, increased latency and high energy consumption. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dora Krekovic , Mario Kusek , Ivana Podnar Zarko , Danh Le-Phuoc

Edge computing promises to offer low-latency and ubiquitous computation to numerous devices at the network edge. For delay-sensitive applications, link delays can have a direct impact on service quality. These delays can fluctuate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiaming Cheng , Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Ni Trieu , Duong Tung Nguyen

By leveraging the data sample diversity, the early-exit network recently emerges as a prominent neural network architecture to accelerate the deep learning inference process. However, intermediate classifiers of the early exits introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rongkang Dong , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Future sixth-generation (6G) networks are envisioned to support intelligent applications across various vertical scenarios, which have stringent requirements on high-precision sensing as well as ultra-low-latency data processing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuanhao Cui , Xiaowen Cao , Guangxu Zhu , Jiali Nie , Jie Xu

Learning at the edge is a challenging task from several perspectives, since data must be collected by end devices (e.g. sensors), possibly pre-processed (e.g. data compression), and finally processed remotely to output the result of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Mattia Merluzzi , Claudio Battiloro , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Accurately estimating workload runtime is a longstanding goal in computer systems, and plays a key role in efficient resource provisioning, latency minimization, and various other system management tasks. Runtime prediction is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tianshu Huang , Arjun Ramesh , Emily Ruppel , Nuno Pereira , Anthony Rowe , Carlee Joe-Wong

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

As a key technology of enabling Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in 5G era, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have quickly attracted widespread attention. However, it is challenging to run computation-intensive DNN-based tasks on mobile…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-14 En Li , Liekang Zeng , Zhi Zhou , Xu Chen

While mobile edge computing (MEC) alleviates the computation and power limitations of mobile devices, additional latency is incurred when offloading tasks to remote MEC servers. In this work, the power-delay tradeoff in the context of task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Chen-Feng Liu , Mehdi Bennis , H. Vincent Poor