AI for Edge Computing

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".

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Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 82445, Taiwan
Interests: data mining; big data; artificial intelligence

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College of Science and Mathematics, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740, USA
Interests: big data; data analytics; complex network analysis

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, California State University, Fresno, CA 93740, USA
Interests: network security; cybersecurity; security and privacy; Internet of Things; internet of vehicles

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The focus of this Special Issue proposal is on AI for edge computing, because “letting AI enhance the performance of edge computing” and “letting AI run on edge” are two promising research topics nowadays, especially in modern information systems, such as the traffic light control system and other relevant smart city applications. Among the issues, downsizing machine learning, data mining, deep learning to make them run on the edge, finding a set of suitable hyperparameters, and even searching for a good neural architecture for the deep neural network have attracted the attention of researchers from different disciplines. Different from using AI technologies to realize intelligent systems/applications, these research directions can be regarded as an essential part of studies on AI in the forthcoming future, especially for ICT and smart cities. Therefore, we can foresee that the integration of artificial intelligent methods for edge computing will become a popular research topic. That is why this Special Issue will be focusing on intelligent algorithms for edge computing and their applications, such as downsizing and accelerating solutions of AI and edge devices/servers.

It is expected that this Special Issue will attract a lot of submissions from the research societies of AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), smart city, and so forth. We can then select some high-quality papers from them to further increase the reputation and impact of ICT Express.

Dr. Jimmy Ming-Tai Wu
Dr. Matin Pirouz
Dr. Shahab Tayeb
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Keywords

  • edge computing
  • machine learning
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • artificial intelligence
  • ICT (information and communication technology)

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Computational Offloading for MEC Networks with Energy Harvesting: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
by Yu Sun and Qijie He
Electronics 2023, 12(6), 1304; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061304 - 09 Mar 2023
Cited by 5 | Viewed by 1811
Abstract
Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a novel computing paradigm that leverages nearby MEC servers to augment the computational capabilities of users with limited computational resources. In this paper, we investigate the computational offloading problem in multi-user multi-server MEC systems with energy harvesting, aiming [...] Read more.
Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a novel computing paradigm that leverages nearby MEC servers to augment the computational capabilities of users with limited computational resources. In this paper, we investigate the computational offloading problem in multi-user multi-server MEC systems with energy harvesting, aiming to minimize both system latency and energy consumption by optimizing task offload location selection and task offload ratio.We propose a hierarchical computational offloading strategy based on multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). The proposed strategy decomposes the computational offloading problem into two sub-problems: a high-level task offloading location selection problem and a low-level task offloading ratio problem. The complexity of the problem is reduced by decoupling. To address these sub-problems, we propose a computational offloading framework based on multi-agent proximal policy optimization (MAPPO), where each agent generates actions based on its observed private state to avoid the problem of action space explosion due to the increasing number of user devices. Simulation results show that the proposed HDMAPPO strategy outperforms other baseline algorithms in terms of average task latency, energy consumption, and discard rate. Full article
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