University of Oulu（奥卢大学）；Capobianco（卡波比安科公司）；Huawei（华为）；TU Delft（代尔夫特理工大学）；University of Vigo（维戈大学）；VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland（芬兰技术研究中心）；Poznan University of Technology（波兹南理工大学）；University of Helsinki（赫尔辛基大学）；Pengcheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）
Ella Peltonen, Mehdi Bennis, Michele Capobianco, Merouane Debbah, Aaron Ding, Felipe Gil-Castiñeira, Marko Jurmu, Teemu Karvonen, Markus Kelanti, Adrian Kliks, … 展开作者
Ella Peltonen, Mehdi Bennis, Michele Capobianco, Merouane Debbah, Aaron Ding, Felipe Gil-Castiñeira, Marko Jurmu, Teemu Karvonen, Markus Kelanti, Adrian Kliks, Teemu Leppänen, Lauri Lovén, Tommi Mikkonen, Ashwin Rao, Sumudu Samarakoon, Kari Seppänen, Paweł Sroka, Sasu Tarkoma, Tingting Yang
In this white paper we provide a vision for 6G Edge Intelligence. Moving towards 5G and beyond the future 6G networks, intelligent solutions utilizing data-driven machine learning and artificial intelligence become crucial for several real-world applications including but not limited to, more efficient manufacturing, novel personal smart device environments and experiences, urban computing and autonomous traffic settings. We present edge computing along with other 6G enablers as a key component to establish the future 2030 intelligent Internet technologies as shown in this series of 6G White Papers.
In this white paper, we focus in the domains of edge computing infrastructure and platforms, data and edge network management, software development for edge, and real-time and distributed training of ML/AI algorithms, along with security, privacy, pricing, and end-user aspects. We discuss the key enablers and challenges and identify the key research questions for the development of the Intelligent Edge services. As a main outcome of this white paper, we envision a transition from Internet of Things to Intelligent Internet of Intelligent Things and provide a roadmap for development of 6G Intelligent Edge.
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；Arizona State University（亚利桑那州立大学）
With the breakthroughs in deep learning, the recent years have witnessed a booming of artificial intelligence (AI) applications and services, spanning from personal assistant to recommendation systems to video/audio surveillance. More recently, with the proliferation of mobile computing and Internet-of-Things (IoT), billions of mobile and IoT devices are connected to the Internet, generating zillions Bytes of data at the network edge. Driving by this trend, there is an urgent need to push the AI frontiers to the network edge so as to fully unleash the potential of the edge big data. To meet th…
Along with the rapid developments in communication technologies and the surge in the use of mobile devices, a brand-new computation paradigm, Edge Computing, is surging in popularity. Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are thriving with the breakthroughs in deep learning and the many improvements in hardware architectures. Billions of data bytes, generated at the network edge, put massive demands on data processing and structural optimization. Thus, there exists a strong demand to integrate Edge Computing and AI, which gives birth to Edge Intelligence. In this paper, we divid…
Clustered Edge Intelligence: Beyond Just Convergence of Edge Computing and AI
IISER Berhampur（贝汉布尔印度科学教育与研究学院）；TU Wien（维也纳工业大学）；University of Helsinki（赫尔辛基大学）；University of Prishtina（普里什蒂纳大学）；University of Oulu（奥卢大学）；University of Hyderabad（海得拉巴大学）；Stockholm University（斯德哥尔摩大学）
Edge Graph Intelligence: Reciprocally Empowering Edge Networks with Graph Intelligence
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州））；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Midea Group（美的集团）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州））；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Terminus Group（特斯联集团）；The University of Waterloo（滑铁卢大学）
RMIT University（皇家墨尔本理工大学）；Swinburne University of Technology（斯威本科技大学）
With the breakthroughs in Deep Learning, recent years have witnessed a massive surge in Artificial Intelligence applications and services. Meanwhile, the rapid advances in Mobile Computing and Internet of Things has also given rise to billions of mobile and smart sensing devices connected to the Internet, generating zettabytes of data at the network edge. The opportunity to combine these two domains of technologies to power interconnected devices with intelligence is likely to pave the way for a new wave of technology revolutions. Embracing this technology revolution, in this article, we prese…
Deep Neural Network (DNN) Inference in Edge Computing, often called Edge Intelligence, requires solutions to insure that sensitive data confidentiality and intellectual property are not revealed in the process. Privacy-preserving Edge Intelligence is only emerging, despite the growing prevalence of Edge Computing as a context of Machine-Learning-as-a-Service. Solutions are yet to be applied, and possibly adapted, to state-of-the-art DNNs. This position paper provides an original assessment of the compatibility of existing techniques for privacy-preserving DNN Inference with the characteristics…
This paper studies an edge intelligence-based IoT network in which a set of edge servers learn a shared model using federated learning (FL) based on the datasets uploaded from a multi-technology-supported IoT network. The data uploading performance of IoT network and the computational capacity of edge servers are entangled with each other in influencing the FL model training process. We propose a novel framework, called federated edge intelligence (FEI), that allows edge servers to evaluate the required number of data samples according to the energy cost of the IoT network as well as their loc…
Edge computing seeks to enable applications with strict latency requirements by utilizing compute resources deployed closer to the users. The diverse, dynamic, and constrained nature of edge infrastructures necessitates a flexible orchestration framework that dynamically supports application QoS requirements. However, existing state-of-the-art orchestration platforms were designed for datacenter environments and make strict assumptions about underlying infrastructures that do not hold for edge computing. This work proposes a novel hierarchical orchestration framework specifically designed for …
School of Data and Computer Science（数据与计算机科学学院）；Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）
As the backbone technology of machine learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) have have quickly ascended to the spotlight. Running DNNs on resource-constrained mobile devices is, however, by no means trivial, since it incurs high performance and energy overhead. While offloading DNNs to the cloud for execution suffers unpredictable performance, due to the uncontrolled long wide-area network latency. To address these challenges, in this paper, we propose Edgent, a collaborative and on-demand DNN co-inference framework with device-edge synergy. Edgent pursues two design knobs: (1) DNN partitioning…
The number of internet-connected devices has been exponentially growing with the massive volume of heterogeneous data generated from various devices, resulting in a highly intertwined cyber-physical system. Currently, the Edge Intelligence System (EIS) concept that leverages the merits of edge computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is utilized to provide smart cloud services with powerful computational processing and reduce decision-making delays. Thus, EIS offers a possible solution to realizing future Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), especially in a vehicular network framework. …
The potential held by the gargantuan volumes of data being generated across networks worldwide has been truly unlocked by machine learning techniques and more recently Deep Learning. The advantages offered by the latter have seen it rapidly becoming a framework of choice for various applications. However, the centralization of computational resources and the need for data aggregation have long been limiting factors in the democratization of Deep Learning applications. Edge Computing is an emerging paradigm that aims to utilize the hitherto untapped processing resources available at the network…
Wayne State University（韦恩州立大学）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
In the last five years, edge computing has attracted tremendous attention from industry and academia due to its promise to reduce latency, save bandwidth, improve availability, and protect data privacy to keep data secure. At the same time, we have witnessed the proliferation of AI algorithms and models which accelerate the successful deployment of intelligence mainly in cloud services. These two trends, combined together, have created a new horizon: Edge Intelligence (EI). The development of EI requires much attention from both the computer systems research community and the AI community to m…
Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学）；Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）；Pazhou Laboratory（琶洲实验室）
Intelligent applications based on machine learning are impacting many parts of our lives. They are required to operate under rigorous practical constraints in terms of service latency, network bandwidth overheads, and also privacy. Yet current implementations running in the Cloud are unable to satisfy all these constraints. The Edge-Cloud Collaborative Intelligence (ECCI) paradigm has become a popular approach to address such issues, and rapidly increasing applications are developed and deployed. However, these prototypical implementations are developer-dependent and scenario-specific without …
The Metaverse can be considered the extension of the present-day web, which integrates the physical and virtual worlds, delivering hyper-realistic user experiences. The inception of the Metaverse brings forth many ecosystem services such as content creation, social entertainment, in-world value transfer, intelligent traffic, healthcare. These services are compute-intensive and require computation offloading onto a Metaverse edge computing server (MECS). Existing Metaverse edge computing approaches do not efficiently and effectively handle resource allocation to ensure a fluid, seamless and hyp…
The demand for real-time, affordable, and efficient smart healthcare services is increasing exponentially due to the technological revolution and burst of population. To meet the increasing demands on this critical infrastructure, there is a need for intelligent methods to cope with the existing obstacles in this area. In this regard, edge computing technology can reduce latency and energy consumption by moving processes closer to the data sources in comparison to the traditional centralized cloud and IoT-based healthcare systems. In addition, by bringing automated insights into the smart heal…
Current Cloud solutions for Edge Computing are inefficient for data-centric applications, as they focus on the IaaS/PaaS level and they miss the data modeling and operations perspective. Consequently, Edge Computing opportunities are lost due to cumbersome and data assets-agnostic processes for end-to-end deployment over the Cloud-to-Edge continuum. In this paper, we introduce MEDAL, an intelligent Cloud-to-Edge Data Fabric to support Data Operations (DataOps)across the continuum and to automate management and orchestration operations over a combined view of the data and the resource layer. ME…
In an IoP environment, edge computing has been proposed to address the problems of resource limitations of edge devices such as smartphones as well as the high-latency, user privacy exposure and network bottleneck that the cloud computing platform solutions incur. This paper presents a context management framework comprised of sensors, mobile devices such as smartphones and an edge server to enable high performance, context-aware computing at the edge. Key features of this architecture include energy-efficient discovery of available sensors and edge services for the client, an automated mechan…
Real-time artificial intelligence (AI) applications mapped onto edge computing need to perform data capture, process data, and device actuation within given bounds while using the available devices. Task synchronization across the devices is an important problem that affects the timely progress of an AI application by determining the quality of the captured data, time to process the data, and the quality of actuation. In this paper, we develop a fast edge-based synchronization scheme that can time align the execution of input-output tasks as well compute tasks. The primary idea of the fast syn…
College of Computer Science and Technology（计算机科学与技术学院）；State Key Laboratory of Brain-machine Intelligence（脑机智能国家重点实验室）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；School of Software Technology（软件学院）；School of Computer Science（计算机学院）；Fudan University（复旦大学）；Institute of Data Science（数据科学研究院）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；First Affiliated Hospital（第一附属医院）；Zhejiang University School of Medicine（浙江大学医学院）；Distributed Systems Group（分布式系统组）；Technische Universität Wien（维也纳技术大学）；ICREA Barcelona（巴塞罗那ICREA）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising supporting architecture providing a variety of resources to the network edge, thus acting as an enabler for edge intelligence services empowering massive mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices with AI capability. With the assistance of edge servers, user equipments (UEs) are able to run deep neural network (DNN) based AI applications, which are generally resource-hungry and compute-intensive, such that an individual UE can hardly afford by itself in real time. However the resources in each individual edge server are typically limited.…
Cloud-based enterprise search services (e.g., AWS Kendra) have been entrancing big data owners by offering convenient and real-time search solutions to them. However, the problem is that individuals and organizations possessing confidential big data are hesitant to embrace such services due to valid data privacy concerns. In addition, to offer an intelligent search, these services access the user search history that further jeopardizes his/her privacy. To overcome the privacy problem, the main idea of this research is to separate the intelligence aspect of the search from its pattern matching …
Pennsylvania State University（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）；Fudan University（复旦大学）
Federated learning (FL) and split learning (SL) are two emerging collaborative learning methods that may greatly facilitate ubiquitous intelligence in Internet of Things (IoT). Federated learning enables machine learning (ML) models locally trained using private data to be aggregated into a global model. Split learning allows different portions of an ML model to be collaboratively trained on different workers in a learning framework. Federated learning and split learning, each has unique advantages and respective limitations, may complement each other toward ubiquitous intelligence in IoT. The…
With the advances of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G/6G wireless communications, the paradigms of mobile computing have developed dramatically in recent years, from centralized mobile cloud computing to distributed fog computing and mobile edge computing (MEC). MEC pushes compute-intensive assignments to the edge of the network and brings resources as close to the endpoints as possible, addressing the shortcomings of mobile devices with regard to storage space, resource optimisation, computational performance and efficiency. Compared to cloud computing, as the distributed and closer infras…
A Survey on Collaborative DNN Inference for Edge Intelligence
College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics（南京航空航天大学电子与信息工程学院）；Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学计算学系）
