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The Internet of Things (IoT) has been increasingly used in our everyday lives as well as in numerous industrial applications. However, due to limitations in computing and power capabilities, IoT devices need to send their respective tasks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ziad Qais Al Abbasi , Khaled M. Rabie , Senior Member , Xingwang Li , Senior Member , Wali Ullah Khan , Asma Abu Samah

Training machine learning models requires the storage of large datasets, which often contain sensitive or private data. Storing data is associated with a number of potential risks which increase over time, such as database breaches and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Aviraj Newatia , Michael Cooper , Viet Nguyen , Rahul G. Krishnan

Deploying large language models (LLMs) on mobile devices increasingly relies on heterogeneous execution, yet no prior study has systematically characterized NPU effectiveness at the operator and pipeline level. We present the first…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Pu Li , Jiawen Qi , Qinyu Chen

This letter proposes an edge learning-based offloading framework for autonomous driving, where the deep learning tasks can be offloaded to the edge server to improve the inference accuracy while meeting the latency constraint. Since the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Xiangfang Li , Chau Yuen , Lijun Qian

In this paper, we consider a mobile-edge computing system, where an access point assists a mobile device (MD) to execute an application consisting of multiple tasks following a general task call graph. The objective is to jointly determine…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Jia Yan , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Recent trends in robotic services propose offloading robot functionalities to the Edge to meet the strict latency requirements of networked robotics. However, the Edge is typically an expensive resource and sometimes the Cloud is also an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Khasa Gillani , Jorge Martín Pérez , Milan Groshev , Antonio de la Oliva , Robert Gazda

Offloading compute-intensive kernels to hardware accelerators relies on the large degree of parallelism offered by these platforms. However, the effective bandwidth of the memory interface often causes a bottleneck, hindering the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Corentin Ferry , Tomofumi Yuki , Steven Derrien , Sanjay Rajopadhye

Various mobile applications that comprise dependent tasks are gaining widespread popularity and are increasingly complex. These applications often have low-latency requirements, resulting in a significant surge in demand for computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jiagang Liu , Yun Mi , Xinyu Zhang , Xiaocui Li

Randomized exponential backoff is a widely deployed technique for coordinating access to a shared resource. A good backoff protocol should, arguably, satisfy three natural properties: (i) it should provide constant throughput, wasting as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Michael A. Bender , Jeremy T. Fineman , Seth Gilbert , Maxwell Young

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning technique that trains models while keeping all the original data generated on devices locally. Since devices may be resource constrained, offloading can be used to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Rehmat Ullah , Di Wu , Paul Harvey , Peter Kilpatrick , Ivor Spence , Blesson Varghese

In this treatise, my research on methods to improve efficiency, reliability, and security of reconfigurable hardware systems, i.e., FPGAs, through partial dynamic reconfiguration is outlined. The efficiency of reconfigurable systems can be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Daniel Ziener

A wireless system is considered, where, computationally complex algorithms are offloaded from user devices to an edge cloud server, for the purpose of efficient battery usage. The main focus of this paper is to characterize and analyze, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Shreya Tayade , Peter Rost , Andreas Maeder , Hans D. Schotten

This paper studies a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system, in which one base station (BS) serves multiple users with intensive computation tasks. We exploit the multi-antenna non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Feng Wang , Jie Xu , Zhiguo Ding

Adaptive workloads can change on--the--fly the configuration of their jobs, in terms of number of processes. In order to carry out these job reconfigurations, we have designed a methodology which enables a job to communicate with the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Sergio Iserte , Rafael Mayo , Enrique S. Quintana-Orti , Vicenc Beltran , Antonio J. Peña

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a prominent technique to provide mobile services with high computation requirement, by migrating the computation-intensive tasks from the mobile devices to the nearby MEC servers. To reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

As novel applications spring up in future network scenarios, the requirements on network service capabilities for differentiated services or burst services are diverse. Aiming at the research of collaborative computing and resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Zhuo Li , Xu Zhou , Yang Liu , Congshan Fan , Wei Wang

Modern deployments of Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly require serving multiple models with diverse architectures, sizes, and specialization on shared, heterogeneous hardware. This setting introduces new challenges for resource…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Mert Yildiz , Pietro Spadaccino , Alexey Rolich , Francesca Cuomo , Andrea Baiocchi

Nowadays, avoiding system calls during cluster communication (e.g., in Data Centers and High Performance Computing) in modern high-speed interconnection networks has become a necessity, due to the high overhead of multiple data copies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Antonis Psistakis

For in-vehicle application,task type and vehicle state information, i.e., vehicle speed, bear a significant impact on the task delay requirement. However, the joint impact of task type and vehicle speed on the task delay constraint has not…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Xinyu Huang , Lijun He , Xing Chen , Liejun Wang , Fan Li

In this paper, task offloading from vehicles with random velocities is optimized via a novel dynamic programming framework. Particularly, in a vehicular network with multiple vehicles and base stations (BSs), computing tasks of vehicles are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Qianren Li , Yuncong Hong , Bojie Lv , Rui Wang