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Training large language models (LLMs) at the network edge faces fundamental challenges arising from device resource constraints, severe data heterogeneity, and heightened privacy risks. To address these challenges, we propose ELSA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaohong Yang , Tong Xie , Minghui Liwang , Chikai Shang , Yang Lu , Zhenzhen Jiao , Liqun Fu , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour

In the realm of edge computing, the increasing demand for high Quality of Service (QoS), particularly in dynamic multimedia streaming applications (e.g., Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality and online gaming), has prompted the need for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Cheng Zhang , Yinuo Deng , Hailiang Zhao , Tianlv Chen , Shuiguang Deng

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xuran Liu , Nan Xue , Rui Bao , Yaping Sun , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Xiaodong Xu , Shuguang Cui

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable human-like predictive capabilities. However, it is challenging to deploy LLMs to provide efficient and adaptive inference services at the edge. This paper proposes a novel Cloud-Edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hongpeng Jin , Yanzhao Wu

In this letter, we propose an energy-efficient split learning (SL) framework for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) using geo-distributed personal data at the network edge, where LLMs are split and alternately across massive mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zuguang Li , Shaohua Wu , Liang Li , Songge Zhang

Deploying Large Language Model (LLM) services at the edge benefits latency-sensitive and privacy-aware applications. However, the stateless nature of LLMs makes managing user context (e.g., sessions, preferences) across geo-distributed edge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Mohammadreza Malekabbasi , Minghe Wang , David Bermbach

Network slicing of multi-access edge computing (MEC) resources is expected to be a pivotal technology to the success of 5G networks and beyond. The key challenge that sets MEC slicing apart from traditional resource allocation problems is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Salvatore D'Oro , Leonardo Bonati , Francesco Restuccia , Michele Polese , Michele Zorzi , Tommaso Melodia

We propose ELIS, a serving system for Large Language Models (LLMs) featuring an Iterative Shortest Remaining Time First (ISRTF) scheduler designed to efficiently manage inference tasks with the shortest remaining tokens. Current LLM serving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Seungbeom Choi , Jeonghoe Goo , Eunjoo Jeon , Mingyu Yang , Minsung Jang

LLM inference serving typically scales out with a two-tier architecture: a cluster router distributes requests to multiple inference engines, each of which then in turn performs its own internal scheduling. However, this commonly used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yue Zhang , Yuansheng Chen , Xuan Mo , Alex Xi , Jialun Li , WeiGang Wu

Serverless computing has emerged as a promising computing paradigm for edge computing. However, adopting the event driven model in highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and distributed edge systems poses significant challenges in request placement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Chen Chen , Zihan Jia , Andrea Sabbioni , Reza Farahani , Lei Jiao

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly being integrated into real-world applications, yet their autoregressive architectures introduce significant inference time variability, especially when deployed across heterogeneous edge-cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Panlong Wu , Yifei Zhong , Danyang Chen , Ting Wang , Fangxin Wang

After the advent of the Internet of Things and 5G networks, edge computing became the center of attraction. The tasks demanding high computation are generally offloaded to the cloud since the edge is resource-limited. The Edge Cloud is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hassan Asghar , Eun-Sung Jung

Edge intelligence paradigm is increasingly demanded by the emerging autonomous systems, such as robotics. Beyond ensuring privacy-preserving operation and resilience in connectivity-limited environments, edge deployment offers significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Benjamin Kubwimana , Qijing Huang

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing with their exceptional understanding, synthesizing, and reasoning capabilities. However, deploying LLMs on resource-constrained edge devices presents significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yue Zheng , Yuhao Chen , Bin Qian , Xiufang Shi , Yuanchao Shu , Jiming Chen

Emerging intelligent service scenarios in 6G communication impose stringent requirements for low latency, high reliability, and privacy preservation. Generative large language models (LLMs) are gradually becoming key enablers for the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Pengyan Zhu , Tingting Yang

With the wide spread use of AI-driven systems in the edge (a.k.a edge intelligence systems), such as autonomous driving vehicles, wearable biotech devices, intelligent manufacturing, etc., such systems are becoming very critical for our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Aftab Hussain

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven the need for more efficient serving strategies. In this context, efficiency refers to the proportion of requests that meet their Service Level Objectives (SLOs), particularly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Azam Ikram , Xiang Li , Sameh Elnikety , Saurabh Bagchi

With the rapid growth in the number of large language model (LLM) users, it is difficult for bandwidth-constrained cloud servers to simultaneously process massive LLM services in real-time. Recently, edge-cloud infrastructures have been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zheming Yang , Yuanhao Yang , Chang Zhao , Qi Guo , Wenkai He , Wen Ji

Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platforms face diverse Service Level Objective (SLO) requirements stemming from various large language model (LLM) applications, manifested in contextual complexity, first-token latency, and between-token latency.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mo Xuan , Zhang yue , Wu Weigang

Recent advances in reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs) are driving the emergence of agentic AI systems. Edge deployment of LLM agents near end users is increasingly necessary to protect data privacy, enable offline use, and provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hao Mark Chen , Zhiwen Mo , Guanxi Lu , Shuang Liang , Lingxiao Ma , Wayne Luk , Hongxiang Fan