By pushing computation,cache,and network control to the edge,mobile edge computing(MEC)is expected to play a leading role in fifth generation(5G)and future sixth generation(6G).Nevertheless,facing ubiquitous fast-grow...By pushing computation,cache,and network control to the edge,mobile edge computing(MEC)is expected to play a leading role in fifth generation(5G)and future sixth generation(6G).Nevertheless,facing ubiquitous fast-growing computational demands,it is impossible for a single MEC paradigm to effectively support high-quality intelligent services at end user equipments(UEs).To address this issue,we propose an air-ground collaborative MEC(AGCMEC)architecture in this article.The proposed AGCMEC integrates all potentially available MEC servers within air and ground in the envisioned 6G,by a variety of collaborative ways to provide computation services at their best for UEs.Firstly,we introduce the AGC-MEC architecture and elaborate three typical use cases.Then,we discuss four main challenges in the AGC-MEC as well as their potential solutions.Next,we conduct a case study of collaborative service placement for AGC-MEC to validate the effectiveness of the proposed collaborative service placement strategy.Finally,we highlight several potential research directions of the AGC-MEC.展开更多
Collaborative edge computing is a promising direction to handle the computation intensive tasks in B5G wireless networks.However,edge computing servers(ECSs)from different operators may not trust each other,and thus t...Collaborative edge computing is a promising direction to handle the computation intensive tasks in B5G wireless networks.However,edge computing servers(ECSs)from different operators may not trust each other,and thus the incentives for collaboration cannot be guaranteed.In this paper,we propose a consortium blockchain enabled collaborative edge computing framework,where users can offload computing tasks to ECSs from different operators.To minimize the total delay of users,we formulate a joint task offloading and resource optimization problem,under the constraint of the computing capability of each ECS.We apply the Tammer decomposition method and heuristic optimization algorithms to obtain the optimal solution.Finally,we propose a reputation based node selection approach to facilitate the consensus process,and also consider a completion time based primary node selection to avoid monopolization of certain edge node and enhance the security of the blockchain.Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm,and the total delay can be reduced by up to 40%compared with the non-cooperative case.展开更多
This article establishes a three-tier mobile edge computing(MEC) network, which takes into account the cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs). In this MEC network, we aim to minimize the processing delay o...This article establishes a three-tier mobile edge computing(MEC) network, which takes into account the cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs). In this MEC network, we aim to minimize the processing delay of tasks by jointly optimizing the deployment of UAVs and offloading decisions,while meeting the computing capacity constraint of UAVs. However, the resulting optimization problem is nonconvex, which cannot be solved by general optimization tools in an effective and efficient way. To this end, we propose a two-layer optimization algorithm to tackle the non-convexity of the problem by capitalizing on alternating optimization. In the upper level algorithm, we rely on differential evolution(DE) learning algorithm to solve the deployment of the UAVs. In the lower level algorithm, we exploit distributed deep neural network(DDNN) to generate offloading decisions. Numerical results demonstrate that the two-layer optimization algorithm can effectively obtain the near-optimal deployment of UAVs and offloading strategy with low complexity.展开更多
Robots have important applications in industrial production, transportation, environmental monitoring and other fields, and multi-robot collaboration is a research hotspot in recent years. Multi-robot autonomous colla...Robots have important applications in industrial production, transportation, environmental monitoring and other fields, and multi-robot collaboration is a research hotspot in recent years. Multi-robot autonomous collaborative tasks are limited by communication, and there are problems such as poor resource allocation balance, slow response of the system to dynamic changes in the environment, and limited collaborative operation capabilities. The combination of 5G and beyond communication and edge computing can effectively reduce the transmission delay of task offloading and improve task processing efficiency. First, this paper designs a robot autonomous collaborative computing architecture based on 5G and beyond and mobile edge computing(MEC).Then, the robot cooperative computing optimization problem is studied according to the task characteristics of the robot swarm. Then, a reinforcement learning task offloading scheme based on Qlearning is further proposed, so that the overall energy consumption and delay of the robot cluster can be minimized. Finally, simulation experiments demonstrate that the method has significant performance advantages.展开更多
Faced with hundreds of thousands of news articles in the news websites,it is difficult for users to find the news articles they are interested in.Therefore,various news recommender systems were built.In the news recom...Faced with hundreds of thousands of news articles in the news websites,it is difficult for users to find the news articles they are interested in.Therefore,various news recommender systems were built.In the news recommendation,these news articles read by a user is typically in the form of a time sequence.However,traditional news recommendation algorithms rarely consider the time sequence characteristic of user browsing behaviors.Therefore,the performance of traditional news recommendation algorithms is not good enough in predicting the next news article which a user will read.To solve this problem,this paper proposes a time-ordered collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm(TOCF),which takes the time sequence characteristic of user behaviors into account.Besides,a new method to compute the similarity among different users,named time-dependent similarity,is proposed.To demonstrate the efficiency of our solution,extensive experiments are conducted along with detailed performance analysis.展开更多
With the rapid development of the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT),the traditional centralized cloud processing model has encountered the challenges of high communication latency and high energy consumption in hand...With the rapid development of the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT),the traditional centralized cloud processing model has encountered the challenges of high communication latency and high energy consumption in handling industrial big data tasks.This paper aims to propose a low-latency and lowenergy path computing scheme for the above problems.This scheme is based on the cloud-fog network architecture.The computing resources of fog network devices in the fog computing layer are used to complete task processing step by step during the data interaction from industrial field devices to the cloud center.A collaborative scheduling strategy based on the particle diversity discrete binary particle swarm optimization(PDBPSO)algorithm is proposed to deploy manufacturing tasks to the fog computing layer reasonably.The task in the form of a directed acyclic graph(DAG)is mapped to a factory fog network in the form of an undirected graph(UG)to find the appropriate computing path for the task,significantly reducing the task processing latency under energy consumption constraints.Simulation experiments show that this scheme’s latency performance outperforms the strategy that tasks are wholly offloaded to the cloud and the strategy that tasks are entirely offloaded to the edge equipment.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62171465,62072303,62272223,U22A2031。
文摘By pushing computation,cache,and network control to the edge,mobile edge computing(MEC)is expected to play a leading role in fifth generation(5G)and future sixth generation(6G).Nevertheless,facing ubiquitous fast-growing computational demands,it is impossible for a single MEC paradigm to effectively support high-quality intelligent services at end user equipments(UEs).To address this issue,we propose an air-ground collaborative MEC(AGCMEC)architecture in this article.The proposed AGCMEC integrates all potentially available MEC servers within air and ground in the envisioned 6G,by a variety of collaborative ways to provide computation services at their best for UEs.Firstly,we introduce the AGC-MEC architecture and elaborate three typical use cases.Then,we discuss four main challenges in the AGC-MEC as well as their potential solutions.Next,we conduct a case study of collaborative service placement for AGC-MEC to validate the effectiveness of the proposed collaborative service placement strategy.Finally,we highlight several potential research directions of the AGC-MEC.
基金supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2020YFB1005900the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62001220+3 种基金the Jiangsu Provincial Key Research and Development Program under Grants BE2022068the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grants BK20200440the Future Network Scientific Research Fund Project FNSRFP-2021-YB-03the Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program,China Association for Science and Technology.
文摘Collaborative edge computing is a promising direction to handle the computation intensive tasks in B5G wireless networks.However,edge computing servers(ECSs)from different operators may not trust each other,and thus the incentives for collaboration cannot be guaranteed.In this paper,we propose a consortium blockchain enabled collaborative edge computing framework,where users can offload computing tasks to ECSs from different operators.To minimize the total delay of users,we formulate a joint task offloading and resource optimization problem,under the constraint of the computing capability of each ECS.We apply the Tammer decomposition method and heuristic optimization algorithms to obtain the optimal solution.Finally,we propose a reputation based node selection approach to facilitate the consensus process,and also consider a completion time based primary node selection to avoid monopolization of certain edge node and enhance the security of the blockchain.Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm,and the total delay can be reduced by up to 40%compared with the non-cooperative case.
基金supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62101277)in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20200822)+1 种基金in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (Grant No. 20KJB510036)in part by the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multimedia Communications and Network Technology (Grant No. KLF-2020-03)。
文摘This article establishes a three-tier mobile edge computing(MEC) network, which takes into account the cooperation between unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs). In this MEC network, we aim to minimize the processing delay of tasks by jointly optimizing the deployment of UAVs and offloading decisions,while meeting the computing capacity constraint of UAVs. However, the resulting optimization problem is nonconvex, which cannot be solved by general optimization tools in an effective and efficient way. To this end, we propose a two-layer optimization algorithm to tackle the non-convexity of the problem by capitalizing on alternating optimization. In the upper level algorithm, we rely on differential evolution(DE) learning algorithm to solve the deployment of the UAVs. In the lower level algorithm, we exploit distributed deep neural network(DDNN) to generate offloading decisions. Numerical results demonstrate that the two-layer optimization algorithm can effectively obtain the near-optimal deployment of UAVs and offloading strategy with low complexity.
文摘Robots have important applications in industrial production, transportation, environmental monitoring and other fields, and multi-robot collaboration is a research hotspot in recent years. Multi-robot autonomous collaborative tasks are limited by communication, and there are problems such as poor resource allocation balance, slow response of the system to dynamic changes in the environment, and limited collaborative operation capabilities. The combination of 5G and beyond communication and edge computing can effectively reduce the transmission delay of task offloading and improve task processing efficiency. First, this paper designs a robot autonomous collaborative computing architecture based on 5G and beyond and mobile edge computing(MEC).Then, the robot cooperative computing optimization problem is studied according to the task characteristics of the robot swarm. Then, a reinforcement learning task offloading scheme based on Qlearning is further proposed, so that the overall energy consumption and delay of the robot cluster can be minimized. Finally, simulation experiments demonstrate that the method has significant performance advantages.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61170174, 61370205)Tianjin Training plan of University Innovation Team(No.TD12-5016)
文摘Faced with hundreds of thousands of news articles in the news websites,it is difficult for users to find the news articles they are interested in.Therefore,various news recommender systems were built.In the news recommendation,these news articles read by a user is typically in the form of a time sequence.However,traditional news recommendation algorithms rarely consider the time sequence characteristic of user browsing behaviors.Therefore,the performance of traditional news recommendation algorithms is not good enough in predicting the next news article which a user will read.To solve this problem,this paper proposes a time-ordered collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm(TOCF),which takes the time sequence characteristic of user behaviors into account.Besides,a new method to compute the similarity among different users,named time-dependent similarity,is proposed.To demonstrate the efficiency of our solution,extensive experiments are conducted along with detailed performance analysis.
基金supported by the Shaanxi Key R&D Program Project(2021GY-100).
文摘With the rapid development of the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT),the traditional centralized cloud processing model has encountered the challenges of high communication latency and high energy consumption in handling industrial big data tasks.This paper aims to propose a low-latency and lowenergy path computing scheme for the above problems.This scheme is based on the cloud-fog network architecture.The computing resources of fog network devices in the fog computing layer are used to complete task processing step by step during the data interaction from industrial field devices to the cloud center.A collaborative scheduling strategy based on the particle diversity discrete binary particle swarm optimization(PDBPSO)algorithm is proposed to deploy manufacturing tasks to the fog computing layer reasonably.The task in the form of a directed acyclic graph(DAG)is mapped to a factory fog network in the form of an undirected graph(UG)to find the appropriate computing path for the task,significantly reducing the task processing latency under energy consumption constraints.Simulation experiments show that this scheme’s latency performance outperforms the strategy that tasks are wholly offloaded to the cloud and the strategy that tasks are entirely offloaded to the edge equipment.
