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Multi-access edge computing (MEC) promises to enable latency-critical applications by bringing computational power closer to mobile devices, but our measurements on commercial MEC deployments reveal frequent SLO violations due to high tail…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiao Zhang , Daehyeok Kim

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are being applied to a wide range of edge intelligent applications, it is critical for edge inference platforms to have both high-throughput and low-latency at the same time. Such edge platforms with multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Ziyang Zhang , Huan Li , Yang Zhao , Changyao Lin , Jie Liu

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) is a prevailing technology for many emerging robotic applications. Achieving real-time SLAM on mobile robotic systems with limited computational resources is challenging because the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yao Zhang , Yuyi Mao , Hui Wang , Zhiwen Yu , Song Guo , Jun Zhang , Liang Wang , Bin Guo

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in natural language processing and content generation. However, current LLMs heavily rely on cloud computing, leading to prolonged latency, high bandwidth cost, and privacy concerns.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mingjin Zhang , Jiannong Cao , Xiaoming Shen , Zeyang Cui

Inference serving for large language models (LLMs) is the key to unleashing their potential in people's daily lives. However, efficient LLM serving remains challenging today because the requests are inherently heterogeneous and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Biao Sun , Ziming Huang , Hanyu Zhao , Wencong Xiao , Xinyi Zhang , Yong Li , Wei Lin

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly accessible to end users, an ever-growing number of inference requests are initiated from edge devices and computed on centralized GPU clusters. However, the resulting exponential growth in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xiangchen Li , Jiakun Fan , Qingyuan Wang , Dimitrios Spatharakis , Saeid Ghafouri , Hans Vandierendonck , Deepu John , Bo Ji , Ali R. Butt , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

In today's era of Internet of Things (IoT), where massive amounts of data are produced by IoT and other devices, edge computing has emerged as a prominent paradigm for low-latency data processing. However, applications may have diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Md Washik Al Azad , Susmit Shannigrahi , Nicholas Stergiou , Francisco R. Ortega , Spyridon Mastorakis

Edge computing decentralizes computing resources, allowing for novel applications in domains such as the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare and agriculture by reducing latency and improving performance. This decentralization is achieved…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Suhrid Gupta , Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam , Rajkumar Buyya

Edge computing enables real-time data processing closer to its source, thus improving the latency and performance of edge-enabled AI applications. However, traditional AI models often fall short when dealing with complex, dynamic tasks that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Haoxiang Luo , Yinqiu Liu , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Gang Sun , Dusit Niyato , Hongfang Yu , Zehui Xiong , Xianbin Wang , Xuemin Shen

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved near-human performance across diverse reasoning tasks, yet their deployment on resource-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices remains impractical due to massive parameter footprints and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mingyu Sung , Vikas Palakonda , Suhwan Im , Sunghwan Moon , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae-Mo Kang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of tasks, but serving them efficiently at scale remains a critical challenge due to their substantial computational and latency demands. While most existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yifan Sun , Gholamreza Haffari , Minxian Xu , Rajkumar Buyya , Adel N. Toosi

Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are the central focus of modern machine learning systems. As data volumes keep growing, it has become customary to train large neural networks with hundreds of millions of parameters to maintain enough capacity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Beidi Chen , Tharun Medini , James Farwell , Sameh Gobriel , Charlie Tai , Anshumali Shrivastava

Computing Continuum (CC) systems are challenged to ensure the intricate requirements of each computational tier. Given the system's scale, the Service Level Objectives (SLOs) which are expressed as these requirements, must be broken down…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Boris Sedlak , Victor Casamayor Pujol , Praveen Kumar Donta , Schahram Dustdar

Large Language Models (LLMs) enable various applications on edge devices such as smartphones, wearables, and embodied robots. However, their deployment often depends on expensive cloud-based APIs, creating high operational costs, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Souvik Kundu , Priyadarshini Panda

The widespread adoption of Language Models (LMs) across industries is driving interest in deploying these services across the computing continuum, from the cloud to the network edge. This shift aims to reduce costs, lower latency, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-30 SiYoung Jang , Roberto Morabito

The paper presents an efficient real-time scheduling algorithm for intelligent real-time edge services, defined as those that perform machine intelligence tasks, such as voice recognition, LIDAR processing, or machine vision, on behalf of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Shuochao Yao , Yifan Hao , Yiran Zhao , Huajie Shao , Dongxin Liu , Shengzhong Liu , Tianshi Wang , Jinyang Li , Tarek Abdelzaher

Modern applications increasingly rely on inference serving systems to provide low-latency insights with a diverse set of machine learning models. Existing systems often utilize resource elasticity to scale with demand. However, many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Joel Wolfrath , Daniel Frink , Abhishek Chandra

Modern large language model (LLM) applications exhibit diverse service-level objectives (SLOs), from low-latency requirements in interactive coding assistants to more relaxed constraints in data wrangling tasks. Existing LLM serving…

Large Language Model (LLM) serving faces a fundamental tension between stringent latency Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and limited GPU memory capacity. When high request rates exhaust the KV cache budget, existing LLM inference systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jiahuan Yu , Mingtao Hu , Zichao Lin , Minjia Zhang

Deploying Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained edge devices for long-sequence tasks remains challenging due to the quadratic time complexity of self-attention and growing Key-Value (KV) cache demands. While…