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Semantic Compression for Edge-Assisted Systems
A novel semantic approach to data selection and compression is presented for
the dynamic adaptation of IoT data processing and transmission within "wireless
islands", where a set of sensing devices (sensors) are interconnected through
one-hop wireless links to a computational resource via a local access point.
The core of the proposed technique is a cooperative framework where local
classifiers at the mobile nodes are dynamically crafted and updated based on
the current state of the observed system, the global processing objective and
the characteristics of the sensors and data streams. The edge processor plays a
key role by establishing a link between content and operations within the
distributed system. The local classifiers are designed to filter the data
streams and provide only the needed information to the global classifier at the
edge processor, thus minimizing bandwidth usage. However, the better the
accuracy of these local classifiers, the larger the energy necessary to run
them at the individual sensors. A formulation of the optimization problem for
the dynamic construction of the classifiers under bandwidth and energy
constraints is proposed and demonstrated on a synthetic example.Comment: Presented at the Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA),
February 17, 201
Mobile Edge Computing via a UAV-Mounted Cloudlet: Optimization of Bit Allocation and Path Planning
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been recently considered as means to
provide enhanced coverage or relaying services to mobile users (MUs) in
wireless systems with limited or no infrastructure. In this paper, a UAV-based
mobile cloud computing system is studied in which a moving UAV is endowed with
computing capabilities to offer computation offloading opportunities to MUs
with limited local processing capabilities. The system aims at minimizing the
total mobile energy consumption while satisfying quality of service
requirements of the offloaded mobile application. Offloading is enabled by
uplink and downlink communications between the mobile devices and the UAV that
take place by means of frequency division duplex (FDD) via orthogonal or
non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) schemes. The problem of jointly
optimizing the bit allocation for uplink and downlink communication as well as
for computing at the UAV, along with the cloudlet's trajectory under latency
and UAV's energy budget constraints is formulated and addressed by leveraging
successive convex approximation (SCA) strategies. Numerical results demonstrate
the significant energy savings that can be accrued by means of the proposed
joint optimization of bit allocation and cloudlet's trajectory as compared to
local mobile execution as well as to partial optimization approaches that
design only the bit allocation or the cloudlet's trajectory.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
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