Knowledge reuse in edge computing environments

Long, Q. , Kolomvatsos, K. and Anagnostopoulos, C. (2022) Knowledge reuse in edge computing environments. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 206, 103466. (doi: 10.1016/j.jnca.2022.103466)

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Abstract

To cope with the challenge of managing numerous computing devices, humongous data volumes and models in Internet-of-Things environments, Edge Computing (EC) has emerged to serve latency-sensitive and compute-intensive applications. Although EC paradigm significantly eliminates latency for predictive analytics tasks by deploying computation on edge nodes’ vicinity, the large scale of EC infrastructure still has huge inescapable burdens on the required resources. This paper introduces a novel paradigm where edge nodes effectively reuse local completed computations (e.g., trained models) at the network edge, coined as knowledge reuse. Such paradigm releases the burden from individual nodes, where they can save resources by relying on reusing models for various predictive analytics tasks (e.g., regression and classification). We study the feasibility of our paradigm by involving pair-wise (dis)similarity metrics among datasets over nodes based on statistical learning techniques (kernel-based Maximum Mean Discrepancy and eigenspace Cosine Dissimilarity). Our paradigm is enhanced with computationally lightweight monitoring mechanisms, which rely on Holt-Winters to forecast future violations and updates of the reused models. Such mechanisms predict when ‘borrowed’ models are insufficient for being reused, triggering a new process of finding more appropriate models to be reused at the network edge. We provide comprehensive performance evaluation and comparative assessment of our algorithms over different experimental scenarios using real and synthetic datasets. Our findings showcase the ability and robustness of our paradigm to maintain up-to-date reused models at the edge trading off quality of analytics and resource utilization.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:LONG, QIANYU and Anagnostopoulos, Dr Christos and Kolomvatsos, Dr Kostas
Authors: Long, Q., Kolomvatsos, K., and Anagnostopoulos, C.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
Journal Name:Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:1084-8045
ISSN (Online):1095-8592
Published Online:22 July 2022
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2022 The Authors
First Published:First published in Journal of Network and Computer Applications 206: 103466
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
300982Exploiting Closed-Loop Aspects in Computationally and Data Intensive AnalyticsRoderick Murray-SmithEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)EP/R018634/1Computing Science