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This paper proposes a communication-efficient, event-triggered inference framework for cooperative edge AI systems comprising multiple user devices and edge servers. Building upon dual-threshold early-exit strategies for rare-event…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Thai T. Vu , John Le

Edge intelligence has emerged as a promising strategy to deliver low-latency and ubiquitous services for mobile devices. Recent advances in fine-tuning mechanisms of foundation models have enabled edge intelligence by integrating low-rank…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Jingyi Wang , Zhongyuan Zhao , Qingtian Wang , Zexu Li , Yue Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Cloud Computing (CC) serves to be a key driver for fulfilling the store and compute requirements of a modern Smart Grid (SG). However, since the datacenters are deployed in concentrated and far remote areas, it fails to guarantee the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Md. Muzakkir Hussain , Mohammad Saad Alam , M. M. Sufyan Beg

Deep Learning (DL) models have been widely deployed on IoT devices with the help of advancements in DL algorithms and chips. However, the limited resources of edge devices make these on-device DL models hard to be generalizable to diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Bufang Yang , Lixing He , Neiwen Ling , Zhenyu Yan , Guoliang Xing , Xian Shuai , Xiaozhe Ren , Xin Jiang

Fog computing can support IoT services with fast response time and low bandwidth usage by moving computation from the cloud to edge devices. However, existing fog computing frameworks have limited flexibility to support dynamic service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Bin Cheng , Jonathan Fürst , Gurkan Solmaz , Takuya Sanada

Foundation models (FMs) currently dominate news headlines. They employ advanced deep learning architectures to extract structural information autonomously from vast datasets through self-supervision. The resulting rich representations of…

Aiming at achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) for Metaverse, pretrained foundation models (PFMs), e.g., generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), can effectively provide various AI services, such as autonomous driving, digital…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Minrui Xu , Dusit Niyato , Hongliang Zhang , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Shiwen Mao , Zhu Han

Edge machine learning can deliver low-latency and private artificial intelligent (AI) services for mobile devices by leveraging computation and storage resources at the network edge. This paper presents an energy-efficient edge processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Kai Yang , Yuanming Shi , Wei Yu , Zhi Ding

Novel applications such as the Metaverse have highlighted the potential of beyond 5G networks, which necessitate ultra-low latency communications and massive broadband connections. Moreover, the burgeoning demand for such services with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Mohammad Farhoudi , Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb

The dramatic development of cloud and edge computing allows for better Quality of Service (QoS) in many scenarios by deploying services on cloud and edge servers. Microservice technology is also adopted in these scenarios to decompose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Xiang He , Teng Wang , Lei Liu , Jianan Li , Zihang Su , Yingming Guo , Zhiying Tu , Hanchuan Xu , Zhongjie Wang

Foundation Models (FMs) have become essential components in modern software systems, excelling in tasks such as pattern recognition and unstructured data processing. However, their capabilities are complemented by the precision,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Dezhi Ran , Mengzhou Wu , Yuan Cao , Assaf Marron , David Harel , Tao Xie

The recent advances aiming to enable in-network service provisioning are empowering a plethora of smart infrastructure developments, including smart cities, and intelligent transportation systems. Although edge computing in conjunction with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman , Muhammad Salahuddin , Spyridon Mastorakis , Byung-Seo Kim

The dispersed node locations and complex topologies of edge networks, combined with intricate dynamic microservice dependencies, render traditional centralized microservice architectures (MSAs) unsuitable. In this paper, we propose a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuang Chen , Chengdi Lu , Yongsheng Huang , Chang Wu , Fengqian Guo , Hancheng Lu , Chang Wen Chen

Edge/Fog computing is a novel computing paradigm that provides resource-limited Internet of Things (IoT) devices with scalable computing and storage resources. Compared to cloud computing, edge/fog servers have fewer resources, but they can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Qifan Deng , Rajkumar Buyya

The emergence of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has transformed the scaling of large language models by enabling vast model capacity through sparse activation. Yet, converting these performance gains into practical edge deployment remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Tian Wu , Liming Wang , Zijian Wen , Xiaoxi Zhang , Xu Chen , Jingpu Duan , Xianwei Zhang , Jinhang Zuo

The growing demand for real-time processing tasks is driving the need for multi-model inference pipelines on edge devices. However, cost-effectively deploying these pipelines while optimizing Quality of Service (QoS) and costs poses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jinhao Sheng , Zhiqing Tang , Jianxiong Guo , Tian Wang

Microservice architectures have become the dominant paradigm for cloud-native systems, offering flexibility and scalability. However, this shift has also led to increased demand for cloud resources, contributing to higher energy consumption…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Julian Legler , Sebastian Werner , Maria C. Borges , Stefan Tai

This work presents a systematic investigation into the latent knowledge encoded within Network Foundation Models (NFMs) that focuses on hidden representations analysis rather than pure downstream task performance. Different from existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sylee Beltiukov , Satyandra Guthula , Wenbo Guo , Walter Willinger , Arpit Gupta

Foundation models (FMs) are recognized as a transformative breakthrough that has started to reshape the future of artificial intelligence (AI) across both academia and industry. The integration of FMs into wireless networks is expected to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Han Zhang , Mohammad Farzanullah , Mohammad Ghassemi , Akram Bin Sediq , Ali Afana , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Large language model (LLM) inference at the network edge is a promising serving paradigm that leverages distributed edge resources to run inference near users and enhance privacy. Existing edge-based LLM inference systems typically adopt…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Bingjie Zhu , Zhixiong Chen , Liqiang Zhao , Hyundong Shin , Arumugam Nallanathan