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With the development of technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, mobile applications are becoming more and more intelligent. Compared to traditional applications realized by mobile cloud computing technology, these novel applications have a higher requirement for a task offloading scheme. However, the traditional task offloading schemes are hard pressed to meet latency and personalization requirements of these new applications. For intelligent application, how to realize personalized and fine-grained task offloading is still a challenging problem. Therefore, we propose a scheme called intelligent task offloading (iTaskOffloading) for a cloud-edge collaborative system, which can provide personalized task offloading. To be specific, we first propose the architecture of iTaskOffloading which includes the local device layer, edge cloud layer, remote cloud layer, and cognitive engine. Then we analyze the method of iTaskOffloading, which contains coarse-grained computing and fine-grained computing. Finally, we build a testbed to evaluate the proposed iTaskOffloading scheme using a typical intelligent application of emotion detection. The experimental results show that compared to the traditional cloud computing scheme, iTaskOffloading has less task duration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, application of UAVs for task offloading has received increasing interest in academia. However, real-time interaction between one UAV and the mobile edge computing node is required for processing the tasks of mobile end users, which significantly increases the system overhead and is unable to meet the demands of large-scale artificial intelligence (AI)-based applications. To tackle this problem, in this article, we propose a new architecture for UAV clustering to enable efficient multi-modal multi-task offloading. With the proposed architecture, the computing, caching, and communication resources are collaboratively optimized using AI-based decision making. This not only increases the efficiency of UAV clusters, but also provides insight into the fusion of computation and communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of mobile communication technology, hardware, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology has promoted the application of edge computing in the field of heterogeneous IoT in order to overcome the defects of the traditional cloud computing model in the era of big data. In this article, we first propose a new AI-enabled smart edge with heterogeneous IoT architecture that combines edge computing, caching, and communication. Then we propose the Smart-Edge-CoCaCo algorithm. To minimize total delay and confirm the computation offloading decision, Smart-Edge-CoCaCo uses joint optimization of the wireless communication model, the collaborative filter caching model in edge cloud, and the computation offloading model. Finally, we built an emotion interaction testbed to perform computational delay experiments in real environments. The experiment results show that the computation delay of the Smart-Edge-CoCaCo algorithm is lower than that of the traditional cloud computing model with the increase of computing task data and the number of concurrent users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the development of intelligent applications (e.g., self-driving, real-time emotion recognition), there are higher requirements for cloud intelligence. However, cloud intelligence depends on the multi-modal data collected by user equipments (UEs). Due to the limited capacity of network bandwidth, offloading all data generated from the UEs to the remote cloud is impractical. Thus, in this article, we consider the challenging issue of achieving a certain level of cloud intelligence while reducing network traffic. In order to solve this problem, we design a traffic control algorithm based on label-less learning on the edge cloud, which is dubbed LLTC. By use of the limited computing and storage resources at the edge cloud, LLTC evaluates the value of data that will be offloaded. Specifically, we first give a statement of the problem and the system architecture. Then we design the LLTC algorithm in detail. Finally, we set up the system testbed. Experimental results show that the proposed LLTC can guarantee the required cloud intelligence while minimizing the amount of data transmission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent advances in wireless networking and big data technologies, such as 5G networks, medical big data analytics, and the Internet of Things, along with recent developments in wearable computing and artificial intelligence, are enabling the development and implementation of innovative diabetes monitoring systems and applications. Due to the life-long and systematic harm suffered by diabetes patients, it is critical to design effective methods for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. Based on our comprehensive investigation, this article classifies those methods into Diabetes 1.0 and Diabetes 2.0, which exhibit deficiencies in terms of networking and intelligence. Thus, our goal is to design a sustainable, cost-effective, and intelligent diabetes diagnosis solution with personalized treatment. In this article, we first propose the 5G-Smart Diabetes system, which combines the state-of-the-art technologies such as wearable 2.0, machine learning, and big data to generate comprehensive sensing and analysis for patients suffering from diabetes. Then we present the data sharing mechanism and personalized data analysis model for 5G-Smart Diabetes. Finally, we build a 5G-Smart Diabetes testbed that includes smart clothing, smartphone, and big data clouds. The experimental results show that our system can effectively provide personalized diagnosis and treatment suggestions to patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]