Smart edge computing(SEC)is a novel paradigm for computing that could transfer cloud-based applications to the edge network,supporting computation-intensive services like face detection and natural language processing...Smart edge computing(SEC)is a novel paradigm for computing that could transfer cloud-based applications to the edge network,supporting computation-intensive services like face detection and natural language processing.A core feature of mobile edge computing,SEC improves user experience and device performance by offloading local activities to edge processors.In this framework,blockchain technology is utilized to ensure secure and trustworthy communication between edge devices and servers,protecting against potential security threats.Additionally,Deep Learning algorithms are employed to analyze resource availability and optimize computation offloading decisions dynamically.IoT applications that require significant resources can benefit from SEC,which has better coverage.Although access is constantly changing and network devices have heterogeneous resources,it is not easy to create consistent,dependable,and instantaneous communication between edge devices and their processors,specifically in 5G Heterogeneous Network(HN)situations.Thus,an Intelligent Management of Resources for Smart Edge Computing(IMRSEC)framework,which combines blockchain,edge computing,and Artificial Intelligence(AI)into 5G HNs,has been proposed in this paper.As a result,a unique dual schedule deep reinforcement learning(DS-DRL)technique has been developed,consisting of a rapid schedule learning process and a slow schedule learning process.The primary objective is to minimize overall unloading latency and system resource usage by optimizing computation offloading,resource allocation,and application caching.Simulation results demonstrate that the DS-DRL approach reduces task execution time by 32%,validating the method’s effectiveness within the IMRSEC framework.展开更多
随着二氧化碳排放量的迅速攀升,经济、环境和能源的矛盾日益突出,发电行业作为典型的碳排放主体,正面临着低碳转型的迫切要求。文章构建了含电转气(power-to-gas,P2G)的碳捕集电厂,通过分析电厂的经济、环境和能源(economy-environment-...随着二氧化碳排放量的迅速攀升,经济、环境和能源的矛盾日益突出,发电行业作为典型的碳排放主体,正面临着低碳转型的迫切要求。文章构建了含电转气(power-to-gas,P2G)的碳捕集电厂,通过分析电厂的经济、环境和能源(economy-environment-energy,3E)特性,建立电厂的3E综合评价指标体系;为获取3E评价指标的相关数据,构建电厂的两阶段鲁棒优化调度模型,并利用约束生成算法进行求解;设计了组合赋权方法和基于灰色关联度分析的逼近理想解排序方法(grey relational analysis-technique for order preference by similarity to ideal soiution,GRA-POPSIS),形成3E综合评价模型。通过实际数据进行仿真分析,验证了在电-碳市场环境下,含P2G的碳捕集电厂相较于WT-GPPCC系统和WT-GFPP系统具有更好的经济、环境和能源综合效益,碳捕集、利用与封存(carbon capture,utilization and storage,CCUS)技术为系统带来的综合效益足以弥补其较高的运行成本,并且提出的3E综合评价模型具有良好的适用性。展开更多
The growing developments in 5G and 6G wireless communications have revolutionized communications technologies,providing faster speeds with reduced latency and improved connectivity to users.However,it raises significa...The growing developments in 5G and 6G wireless communications have revolutionized communications technologies,providing faster speeds with reduced latency and improved connectivity to users.However,it raises significant security challenges,including impersonation threats,data manipulation,distributed denial of service(DDoS)attacks,and privacy breaches.Traditional security measures are inadequate due to the decentralized and dynamic nature of next-generation networks.This survey provides a comprehensive review of how Federated Learning(FL),Blockchain,and Digital Twin(DT)technologies can collectively enhance the security of 5G and 6G systems.Blockchain offers decentralized,immutable,and transparent mechanisms for securing network transactions,while FL enables privacy-preserving collaborative learning without sharing raw data.Digital Twins create virtual replicas of network components,enabling real-time monitoring,anomaly detection,and predictive threat analysis.The survey examines major security issues in emerging wireless architectures and analyzes recent advancements that integrate FL,Blockchain,and DT to mitigate these threats.Additionally,it presents practical use cases,synthesizes key lessons learned,and identifies ongoing research challenges.Finally,the survey outlines future research directions to support the development of scalable,intelligent,and robust security frameworks for next-generation wireless networks.展开更多
Power system protection has evolved significantly due to the ongoing energy transition and digitalization.The development and standardization of information and communication technologies(ICTs)used for power system pr...Power system protection has evolved significantly due to the ongoing energy transition and digitalization.The development and standardization of information and communication technologies(ICTs)used for power system protection,monitoring,and control have led to the digitalization of substations and the introduction of new protection and control schemes.These include virtualized centralized protection and control for in-tra-substation applications,as well as advanced wide-area monitoring,protection,and control(WAMPAC)for inter-substation applications.This paper reviews the development of virtualized centralized protection,with a focus on key practical advancements,emerging technolo-gies,and state-of-the-art studies in centralized protection and control(CPC)and WAMPAC systems.It also identifies directions for future research.展开更多
In 6G era,service forms in which computing power acts as the core will be ubiquitous in the network.At the same time,the collaboration among edge computing,cloud computing and network is needed to support edge computi...In 6G era,service forms in which computing power acts as the core will be ubiquitous in the network.At the same time,the collaboration among edge computing,cloud computing and network is needed to support edge computing service with strong demand for computing power,so as to realize the optimization of resource utilization.Based on this,the article discusses the research background,key techniques and main application scenarios of computing power network.Through the demonstration,it can be concluded that the technical solution of computing power network can effectively meet the multi-level deployment and flexible scheduling needs of the future 6G business for computing,storage and network,and adapt to the integration needs of computing power and network in various scenarios,such as user oriented,government enterprise oriented,computing power open and so on.展开更多
Multi-access Edge Computing(MEC)is one of the key technologies of the future 5G network.By deploying edge computing centers at the edge of wireless access network,the computation tasks can be offloaded to edge servers...Multi-access Edge Computing(MEC)is one of the key technologies of the future 5G network.By deploying edge computing centers at the edge of wireless access network,the computation tasks can be offloaded to edge servers rather than the remote cloud server to meet the requirements of 5G low-latency and high-reliability application scenarios.Meanwhile,with the development of IOV(Internet of Vehicles)technology,various delay-sensitive and compute-intensive in-vehicle applications continue to appear.Compared with traditional Internet business,these computation tasks have higher processing priority and lower delay requirements.In this paper,we design a 5G-based vehicle-aware Multi-access Edge Computing network(VAMECN)and propose a joint optimization problem of minimizing total system cost.In view of the problem,a deep reinforcement learningbased joint computation offloading and task migration optimization(JCOTM)algorithm is proposed,considering the influences of multiple factors such as concurrent multiple computation tasks,system computing resources distribution,and network communication bandwidth.And,the mixed integer nonlinear programming problem is described as a Markov Decision Process.Experiments show that our proposed algorithm can effectively reduce task processing delay and equipment energy consumption,optimize computing offloading and resource allocation schemes,and improve system resource utilization,compared with other computing offloading policies.展开更多
Mobile Edge Computing(MEC) is an emerging technology in 5G era which enables the provision of the cloud and IT services within the close proximity of mobile subscribers.It allows the availability of the cloud servers ...Mobile Edge Computing(MEC) is an emerging technology in 5G era which enables the provision of the cloud and IT services within the close proximity of mobile subscribers.It allows the availability of the cloud servers inside or adjacent to the base station.The endto-end latency perceived by the mobile user is therefore reduced with the MEC platform.The context-aware services are able to be served by the application developers by leveraging the real time radio access network information from MEC.The MEC additionally enables the compute intensive applications execution in the resource constraint devices with the collaborative computing involving the cloud servers.This paper presents the architectural description of the MEC platform as well as the key functionalities enabling the above features.The relevant state-of-the-art research efforts are then surveyed.The paper finally discusses and identifies the open research challenges of MEC.展开更多
Through enabling the IT and cloud computation capacities at Radio Access Network(RAN),Mobile Edge Computing(MEC) makes it possible to deploy and provide services locally.Therefore,MEC becomes the potential technology ...Through enabling the IT and cloud computation capacities at Radio Access Network(RAN),Mobile Edge Computing(MEC) makes it possible to deploy and provide services locally.Therefore,MEC becomes the potential technology to satisfy the requirements of 5G network to a certain extent,due to its functions of services localization,local breakout,caching,computation offloading,network context information exposure,etc.Especially,MEC can decrease the end-to-end latency dramatically through service localization and caching,which is key requirement of 5G low latency scenario.However,the performance of MEC still needs to be evaluated and verified for future deployment.Thus,the concept of MEC is introduced into5 G architecture and analyzed for different 5G scenarios in this paper.Secondly,the evaluation of MEC performance is conducted and analyzed in detail,especially for network end-to-end latency.In addition,some challenges of the MEC are also discussed for future deployment.展开更多
In recent years,the exponential proliferation of smart devices with their intelligent applications poses severe challenges on conventional cellular networks.Such challenges can be potentially overcome by integrating c...In recent years,the exponential proliferation of smart devices with their intelligent applications poses severe challenges on conventional cellular networks.Such challenges can be potentially overcome by integrating communication,computing,caching,and control(i4C)technologies.In this survey,we first give a snapshot of different aspects of the i4C,comprising background,motivation,leading technological enablers,potential applications,and use cases.Next,we describe different models of communication,computing,caching,and control(4C)to lay the foundation of the integration approach.We review current stateof-the-art research efforts related to the i4C,focusing on recent trends of both conventional and artificial intelligence(AI)-based integration approaches.We also highlight the need for intelligence in resources integration.Then,we discuss the integration of sensing and communication(ISAC)and classify the integration approaches into various classes.Finally,we propose open challenges and present future research directions for beyond 5G networks,such as 6G.展开更多
As a viable component of 6G wireless communication architecture,satellite-terrestrial networks support efficient file delivery by leveraging the innate broadcast ability of satellite and the enhanced powerful file tra...As a viable component of 6G wireless communication architecture,satellite-terrestrial networks support efficient file delivery by leveraging the innate broadcast ability of satellite and the enhanced powerful file transmission approaches of multi-tier terrestrial networks.In the paper,we introduce edge computing technology into the satellite-terrestrial network and propose a partition-based cache and delivery strategy to make full use of the integrated resources and reducing the backhaul load.Focusing on the interference effect from varied nodes in different geographical distances,we derive the file successful transmission probability of the typical user and by utilizing the tool of stochastic geometry.Considering the constraint of nodes cache space and file sets parameters,we propose a near-optimal partition-based cache and delivery strategy by optimizing the asymptotic successful transmission probability of the typical user.The complex nonlinear programming problem is settled by jointly utilizing standard particle-based swarm optimization(PSO)method and greedy based multiple knapsack choice problem(MKCP)optimization method.Numerical results show that compared with the terrestrial only cache strategy,Ground Popular Strategy,Satellite Popular Strategy,and Independent and identically distributed popularity strategy,the performance of the proposed scheme improve by 30.5%,9.3%,12.5%and 13.7%.展开更多
The development of communication technology will promote the application of Internet of Things,and Beyond 5G will become a new technology promoter.At the same time,Beyond 5G will become one of the important supports f...The development of communication technology will promote the application of Internet of Things,and Beyond 5G will become a new technology promoter.At the same time,Beyond 5G will become one of the important supports for the development of edge computing technology.This paper proposes a communication task allocation algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning for vehicle-to-pedestrian communication scenarios in edge computing.Through trial and error learning of agent,the optimal spectrum and power can be determined for transmission without global information,so as to balance the communication between vehicle-to-pedestrian and vehicle-to-infrastructure.The results show that the agent can effectively improve vehicle-to-infrastructure communication rate as well as meeting the delay constraints on the vehicle-to-pedestrian link.展开更多
In this paper,we investigate video quality enhancement using computation offloading to the mobile cloud computing(MCC)environment.Our objective is to reduce the computational complexity required to covert a low-resolu...In this paper,we investigate video quality enhancement using computation offloading to the mobile cloud computing(MCC)environment.Our objective is to reduce the computational complexity required to covert a low-resolution video to high-resolution video while minimizing computation at the mobile client and additional communication costs.To do so,we propose an energy-efficient computation offloading framework for video streaming services in a MCC over the fifth generation(5G)cellular networks.In the proposed framework,the mobile client offloads the computational burden for the video enhancement to the cloud,which renders the side information needed to enhance video without requiring much computation by the client.The cloud detects edges from the upsampled ultra-high-resolution video(UHD)and then compresses and transmits them as side information with the original low-resolution video(e.g.,full HD).Finally,the mobile client decodes the received content and integrates the SI and original content,which produces a high-quality video.In our extensive simulation experiments,we observed that the amount of computation needed to construct a UHD video in the client is 50%-60% lower than that required to decode UHD video compressed by legacy video encoding algorithms.Moreover,the bandwidth required to transmit a full HD video and its side information is around 70% lower than that required for a normal UHD video.The subjective quality of the enhanced UHD is similar to that of the original UHD video even though the client pays lower communication costs with reduced computing power.展开更多
Next-generation cellular networks are expected to provide users with innovative gigabits and terabits per second speeds and achieve ultra-high reliability,availability,and ultra-low latency.The requirements of such ne...Next-generation cellular networks are expected to provide users with innovative gigabits and terabits per second speeds and achieve ultra-high reliability,availability,and ultra-low latency.The requirements of such networks are the main challenges that can be handled using a range of recent technologies,including multi-access edge computing(MEC),artificial intelligence(AI),millimeterwave communications(mmWave),and software-defined networking.Many aspects and design challenges associated with the MEC-based 5G/6G networks should be solved to ensure the required quality of service(QoS).This article considers developing a complex MEC structure for fifth and sixth-generation(5G/6G)cellular networks.Furthermore,we propose a seamless migration technique for complex edge computing structures.The developed migration scheme enables services to adapt to the required load on the radio channels.The proposed algorithm is analyzed for various use cases,and a test bench has been developed to emulate the operator’s infrastructure.The obtained results are introduced and discussed.展开更多
文摘Smart edge computing(SEC)is a novel paradigm for computing that could transfer cloud-based applications to the edge network,supporting computation-intensive services like face detection and natural language processing.A core feature of mobile edge computing,SEC improves user experience and device performance by offloading local activities to edge processors.In this framework,blockchain technology is utilized to ensure secure and trustworthy communication between edge devices and servers,protecting against potential security threats.Additionally,Deep Learning algorithms are employed to analyze resource availability and optimize computation offloading decisions dynamically.IoT applications that require significant resources can benefit from SEC,which has better coverage.Although access is constantly changing and network devices have heterogeneous resources,it is not easy to create consistent,dependable,and instantaneous communication between edge devices and their processors,specifically in 5G Heterogeneous Network(HN)situations.Thus,an Intelligent Management of Resources for Smart Edge Computing(IMRSEC)framework,which combines blockchain,edge computing,and Artificial Intelligence(AI)into 5G HNs,has been proposed in this paper.As a result,a unique dual schedule deep reinforcement learning(DS-DRL)technique has been developed,consisting of a rapid schedule learning process and a slow schedule learning process.The primary objective is to minimize overall unloading latency and system resource usage by optimizing computation offloading,resource allocation,and application caching.Simulation results demonstrate that the DS-DRL approach reduces task execution time by 32%,validating the method’s effectiveness within the IMRSEC framework.
文摘随着二氧化碳排放量的迅速攀升,经济、环境和能源的矛盾日益突出,发电行业作为典型的碳排放主体,正面临着低碳转型的迫切要求。文章构建了含电转气(power-to-gas,P2G)的碳捕集电厂,通过分析电厂的经济、环境和能源(economy-environment-energy,3E)特性,建立电厂的3E综合评价指标体系;为获取3E评价指标的相关数据,构建电厂的两阶段鲁棒优化调度模型,并利用约束生成算法进行求解;设计了组合赋权方法和基于灰色关联度分析的逼近理想解排序方法(grey relational analysis-technique for order preference by similarity to ideal soiution,GRA-POPSIS),形成3E综合评价模型。通过实际数据进行仿真分析,验证了在电-碳市场环境下,含P2G的碳捕集电厂相较于WT-GPPCC系统和WT-GFPP系统具有更好的经济、环境和能源综合效益,碳捕集、利用与封存(carbon capture,utilization and storage,CCUS)技术为系统带来的综合效益足以弥补其较高的运行成本,并且提出的3E综合评价模型具有良好的适用性。
基金derived from a research grant“Cybersecurity Research and Innovation Pioneers Grants Initiative”funded by The National Program for RDI in Cybersecurity(National Cybersecurity Authority)-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-with grant number(CRPG-25-3168)supported by EIAS Data Science and Blockchain Lab,CCIS,Prince Sultan University.
文摘The growing developments in 5G and 6G wireless communications have revolutionized communications technologies,providing faster speeds with reduced latency and improved connectivity to users.However,it raises significant security challenges,including impersonation threats,data manipulation,distributed denial of service(DDoS)attacks,and privacy breaches.Traditional security measures are inadequate due to the decentralized and dynamic nature of next-generation networks.This survey provides a comprehensive review of how Federated Learning(FL),Blockchain,and Digital Twin(DT)technologies can collectively enhance the security of 5G and 6G systems.Blockchain offers decentralized,immutable,and transparent mechanisms for securing network transactions,while FL enables privacy-preserving collaborative learning without sharing raw data.Digital Twins create virtual replicas of network components,enabling real-time monitoring,anomaly detection,and predictive threat analysis.The survey examines major security issues in emerging wireless architectures and analyzes recent advancements that integrate FL,Blockchain,and DT to mitigate these threats.Additionally,it presents practical use cases,synthesizes key lessons learned,and identifies ongoing research challenges.Finally,the survey outlines future research directions to support the development of scalable,intelligent,and robust security frameworks for next-generation wireless networks.
基金supported by the CIRP-5G Project(Business Finland)(No.6937/31/2021)the Otto A.Malm Foundation.
文摘Power system protection has evolved significantly due to the ongoing energy transition and digitalization.The development and standardization of information and communication technologies(ICTs)used for power system protection,monitoring,and control have led to the digitalization of substations and the introduction of new protection and control schemes.These include virtualized centralized protection and control for in-tra-substation applications,as well as advanced wide-area monitoring,protection,and control(WAMPAC)for inter-substation applications.This paper reviews the development of virtualized centralized protection,with a focus on key practical advancements,emerging technolo-gies,and state-of-the-art studies in centralized protection and control(CPC)and WAMPAC systems.It also identifies directions for future research.
基金This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China No.2019YFB1802800.
文摘In 6G era,service forms in which computing power acts as the core will be ubiquitous in the network.At the same time,the collaboration among edge computing,cloud computing and network is needed to support edge computing service with strong demand for computing power,so as to realize the optimization of resource utilization.Based on this,the article discusses the research background,key techniques and main application scenarios of computing power network.Through the demonstration,it can be concluded that the technical solution of computing power network can effectively meet the multi-level deployment and flexible scheduling needs of the future 6G business for computing,storage and network,and adapt to the integration needs of computing power and network in various scenarios,such as user oriented,government enterprise oriented,computing power open and so on.
基金supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2018YFC0831502.
文摘Multi-access Edge Computing(MEC)is one of the key technologies of the future 5G network.By deploying edge computing centers at the edge of wireless access network,the computation tasks can be offloaded to edge servers rather than the remote cloud server to meet the requirements of 5G low-latency and high-reliability application scenarios.Meanwhile,with the development of IOV(Internet of Vehicles)technology,various delay-sensitive and compute-intensive in-vehicle applications continue to appear.Compared with traditional Internet business,these computation tasks have higher processing priority and lower delay requirements.In this paper,we design a 5G-based vehicle-aware Multi-access Edge Computing network(VAMECN)and propose a joint optimization problem of minimizing total system cost.In view of the problem,a deep reinforcement learningbased joint computation offloading and task migration optimization(JCOTM)algorithm is proposed,considering the influences of multiple factors such as concurrent multiple computation tasks,system computing resources distribution,and network communication bandwidth.And,the mixed integer nonlinear programming problem is described as a Markov Decision Process.Experiments show that our proposed algorithm can effectively reduce task processing delay and equipment energy consumption,optimize computing offloading and resource allocation schemes,and improve system resource utilization,compared with other computing offloading policies.
文摘Mobile Edge Computing(MEC) is an emerging technology in 5G era which enables the provision of the cloud and IT services within the close proximity of mobile subscribers.It allows the availability of the cloud servers inside or adjacent to the base station.The endto-end latency perceived by the mobile user is therefore reduced with the MEC platform.The context-aware services are able to be served by the application developers by leveraging the real time radio access network information from MEC.The MEC additionally enables the compute intensive applications execution in the resource constraint devices with the collaborative computing involving the cloud servers.This paper presents the architectural description of the MEC platform as well as the key functionalities enabling the above features.The relevant state-of-the-art research efforts are then surveyed.The paper finally discusses and identifies the open research challenges of MEC.
基金supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program(863) of China(No.2015AA01A701)
文摘Through enabling the IT and cloud computation capacities at Radio Access Network(RAN),Mobile Edge Computing(MEC) makes it possible to deploy and provide services locally.Therefore,MEC becomes the potential technology to satisfy the requirements of 5G network to a certain extent,due to its functions of services localization,local breakout,caching,computation offloading,network context information exposure,etc.Especially,MEC can decrease the end-to-end latency dramatically through service localization and caching,which is key requirement of 5G low latency scenario.However,the performance of MEC still needs to be evaluated and verified for future deployment.Thus,the concept of MEC is introduced into5 G architecture and analyzed for different 5G scenarios in this paper.Secondly,the evaluation of MEC performance is conducted and analyzed in detail,especially for network end-to-end latency.In addition,some challenges of the MEC are also discussed for future deployment.
基金supported in part by National Key R&D Program of China(2019YFE0196400)Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi(2022KWZ09)+4 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(61771358,61901317,62071352)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(JB190104)Joint Education Project between China and Central-Eastern European Countries(202005)the 111 Project(B08038)。
文摘In recent years,the exponential proliferation of smart devices with their intelligent applications poses severe challenges on conventional cellular networks.Such challenges can be potentially overcome by integrating communication,computing,caching,and control(i4C)technologies.In this survey,we first give a snapshot of different aspects of the i4C,comprising background,motivation,leading technological enablers,potential applications,and use cases.Next,we describe different models of communication,computing,caching,and control(4C)to lay the foundation of the integration approach.We review current stateof-the-art research efforts related to the i4C,focusing on recent trends of both conventional and artificial intelligence(AI)-based integration approaches.We also highlight the need for intelligence in resources integration.Then,we discuss the integration of sensing and communication(ISAC)and classify the integration approaches into various classes.Finally,we propose open challenges and present future research directions for beyond 5G networks,such as 6G.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China 2021YFB2900504,2020YFB1807900 and 2020YFB1807903by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant 62271062,62071063。
文摘As a viable component of 6G wireless communication architecture,satellite-terrestrial networks support efficient file delivery by leveraging the innate broadcast ability of satellite and the enhanced powerful file transmission approaches of multi-tier terrestrial networks.In the paper,we introduce edge computing technology into the satellite-terrestrial network and propose a partition-based cache and delivery strategy to make full use of the integrated resources and reducing the backhaul load.Focusing on the interference effect from varied nodes in different geographical distances,we derive the file successful transmission probability of the typical user and by utilizing the tool of stochastic geometry.Considering the constraint of nodes cache space and file sets parameters,we propose a near-optimal partition-based cache and delivery strategy by optimizing the asymptotic successful transmission probability of the typical user.The complex nonlinear programming problem is settled by jointly utilizing standard particle-based swarm optimization(PSO)method and greedy based multiple knapsack choice problem(MKCP)optimization method.Numerical results show that compared with the terrestrial only cache strategy,Ground Popular Strategy,Satellite Popular Strategy,and Independent and identically distributed popularity strategy,the performance of the proposed scheme improve by 30.5%,9.3%,12.5%and 13.7%.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61871283)the Foundation of Pre-Research on Equipment of China(No.61400010304)Major Civil-Military Integration Project in Tianjin,China(No.18ZXJMTG00170).
文摘The development of communication technology will promote the application of Internet of Things,and Beyond 5G will become a new technology promoter.At the same time,Beyond 5G will become one of the important supports for the development of edge computing technology.This paper proposes a communication task allocation algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning for vehicle-to-pedestrian communication scenarios in edge computing.Through trial and error learning of agent,the optimal spectrum and power can be determined for transmission without global information,so as to balance the communication between vehicle-to-pedestrian and vehicle-to-infrastructure.The results show that the agent can effectively improve vehicle-to-infrastructure communication rate as well as meeting the delay constraints on the vehicle-to-pedestrian link.
文摘In this paper,we investigate video quality enhancement using computation offloading to the mobile cloud computing(MCC)environment.Our objective is to reduce the computational complexity required to covert a low-resolution video to high-resolution video while minimizing computation at the mobile client and additional communication costs.To do so,we propose an energy-efficient computation offloading framework for video streaming services in a MCC over the fifth generation(5G)cellular networks.In the proposed framework,the mobile client offloads the computational burden for the video enhancement to the cloud,which renders the side information needed to enhance video without requiring much computation by the client.The cloud detects edges from the upsampled ultra-high-resolution video(UHD)and then compresses and transmits them as side information with the original low-resolution video(e.g.,full HD).Finally,the mobile client decodes the received content and integrates the SI and original content,which produces a high-quality video.In our extensive simulation experiments,we observed that the amount of computation needed to construct a UHD video in the client is 50%-60% lower than that required to decode UHD video compressed by legacy video encoding algorithms.Moreover,the bandwidth required to transmit a full HD video and its side information is around 70% lower than that required for a normal UHD video.The subjective quality of the enhanced UHD is similar to that of the original UHD video even though the client pays lower communication costs with reduced computing power.
基金This work was supported by Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project Number(PNURSP2022R308),Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Next-generation cellular networks are expected to provide users with innovative gigabits and terabits per second speeds and achieve ultra-high reliability,availability,and ultra-low latency.The requirements of such networks are the main challenges that can be handled using a range of recent technologies,including multi-access edge computing(MEC),artificial intelligence(AI),millimeterwave communications(mmWave),and software-defined networking.Many aspects and design challenges associated with the MEC-based 5G/6G networks should be solved to ensure the required quality of service(QoS).This article considers developing a complex MEC structure for fifth and sixth-generation(5G/6G)cellular networks.Furthermore,we propose a seamless migration technique for complex edge computing structures.The developed migration scheme enables services to adapt to the required load on the radio channels.The proposed algorithm is analyzed for various use cases,and a test bench has been developed to emulate the operator’s infrastructure.The obtained results are introduced and discussed.
