Modulating both the clock frequency and supply voltage of the network-on-chip （NoC） during runtime can reduce the power consumption and heat flux, but will lead to the increase of the latency of NoC. It is necessary...Modulating both the clock frequency and supply voltage of the network-on-chip （NoC） during runtime can reduce the power consumption and heat flux, but will lead to the increase of the latency of NoC. It is necessary to find a tradeoff between power consumption and communication latency. So we propose an analytical latency model which can show us the relationship of them. The proposed model to analyze latency is based on the M/G/1 queuing model, which is suitable for dynamic frequency scaling. The experiment results show that the accuracy of this model is more than 90%.展开更多
Recently,the number of Internet of Things(IoT)devices connected to the Internet has increased dramatically as well as the data produced by these devices.This would require offloading IoT tasks to release heavy computa...Recently,the number of Internet of Things(IoT)devices connected to the Internet has increased dramatically as well as the data produced by these devices.This would require offloading IoT tasks to release heavy computation and storage to the resource-rich nodes such as Edge Computing and Cloud Computing.However,different service architecture and offloading strategies have a different impact on the service time performance of IoT applications.Therefore,this paper presents an Edge-Cloud system architecture that supports scheduling offloading tasks of IoT applications in order to minimize the enormous amount of transmitting data in the network.Also,it introduces the offloading latency models to investigate the delay of different offloading scenarios/schemes and explores the effect of computational and communication demand on each one.A series of experiments conducted on an EdgeCloudSim show that different offloading decisions within the Edge-Cloud system can lead to various service times due to the computational resources and communications types.Finally,this paper presents a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art research on task offloading issues in the Edge-Cloud environment.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61376024 and No.61306024Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province under Grant No.S2013040014366Basic Research Programme of Shenzhen No.JCYJ20140417113430642 and JCYJ20140901003939020
文摘Modulating both the clock frequency and supply voltage of the network-on-chip （NoC） during runtime can reduce the power consumption and heat flux, but will lead to the increase of the latency of NoC. It is necessary to find a tradeoff between power consumption and communication latency. So we propose an analytical latency model which can show us the relationship of them. The proposed model to analyze latency is based on the M/G/1 queuing model, which is suitable for dynamic frequency scaling. The experiment results show that the accuracy of this model is more than 90%.
基金In addition,the authors would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research,Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University,Al-Kharj,Saudi Arabia,for supporting this work.
文摘Recently,the number of Internet of Things(IoT)devices connected to the Internet has increased dramatically as well as the data produced by these devices.This would require offloading IoT tasks to release heavy computation and storage to the resource-rich nodes such as Edge Computing and Cloud Computing.However,different service architecture and offloading strategies have a different impact on the service time performance of IoT applications.Therefore,this paper presents an Edge-Cloud system architecture that supports scheduling offloading tasks of IoT applications in order to minimize the enormous amount of transmitting data in the network.Also,it introduces the offloading latency models to investigate the delay of different offloading scenarios/schemes and explores the effect of computational and communication demand on each one.A series of experiments conducted on an EdgeCloudSim show that different offloading decisions within the Edge-Cloud system can lead to various service times due to the computational resources and communications types.Finally,this paper presents a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art research on task offloading issues in the Edge-Cloud environment.
