Special Issue on Artificial-Intelligence-Powered Edge Computing for Internet of Things

Lei Yang, Xu Chen, Samir M. Perlaza, Junshan Zhang

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of mobile computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), in which billions of mobile and IoT devices are connected to the Internet, generating zillions bytes of data at the network edge. However, it is challenging and infeasible to transfer and process zillions bytes of data using the current cloud-device architecture, due to bandwidth constraints of networks, potentially uncontrollable latency of cloud services, and privacy concerns while collecting data from IoT devices. To tackle these challenges, edge computing, an emerging computing paradigm, has received a tremendous amount of interest. By pushing data storage, computing, and controls closer to the network edge, edge computing has been widely recognized as a promising solution to meet the requirements of low latency, high scalability, and energy efficiency, as well as to mitigate the network traffic burdens. However, with the emergence of diverse IoT applications (e.g., smart city, industrial automation, and connected car), it becomes challenging for edge computing to deal with these heterogeneous IoT environments.