PArtNNer: Platform-agnostic adaptive edge-cloud DNN partitioning for minimizing end-to-end latency

SK Ghosh, A Raha, V Raghunathan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The last decade has seen the emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) as the de facto
algorithm for various computer vision applications. In intelligent edge devices, sensor data …

Toward performance efficient UAV task scheduling in cloud native edge

S Huang, D Zeng, Z Qu - GLOBECOM 2022-2022 IEEE Global …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been widely applied in many domains. But the
computation and energy resource limitation severely hinders its development and …

Fractus: Orchestration of Distributed Applications in the Drone-Edge-Cloud Continuum

N Grigoropoulos, S Lalis - 2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next-generation drone applications will be distributed, including tasks that need to run at the
edge or in the cloud and interact with the drone in a smooth way. In this paper, we propose …

Flexible computation offloading at the edge for autonomous drones with uncertain flight times

G Polychronis, S Lalis - … Computing in Smart Systems and the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ever increasing number of applications can employ aerial unmanned vehicles, or so-
called drones, to perform different sensing and possibly also actuation tasks from the air. In …

Democratizing Drone Autonomy via Edge Computing

M Bala, T Eiszler, X Chen, J Harkes… - 2023 IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fully autonomous flight by low-cost, lightweight commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) drones
could transform many use cases involving real-time computer vision. We show how such …

Exploring graph neural networks for joint cruise control and task offloading in UAV-enabled mobile edge computing

K Li, W Ni, X Yuan, A Noor… - 2023 IEEE 97th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly considered as aerial servers in
mobile edge computing (MEC) to assist mission-critical computation tasks of edge ground …

Drone services: An investigation via prototyping and simulation

M Alwateer, SW Loke, W Rahayu - 2018 IEEE 4th World Forum …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although drones are currently used in many outdoor and indoor applications, still there are
numerous opportunities to be explored by combining drones with other accessible …

A dynamic deep neural network design for efficient workload allocation in edge computing

C Lo, YY Su, CY Lee, SC Chang - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unreliable communication channels and limited computing resources at the edge end are
two primary constraints of battery-powered movable devices, such as autonomous robots …

AirEdge: A dependency-aware multi-task orchestration in federated aerial computing

U Awada, J Zhang, S Chen, S Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging edge computing (EC) systems are currently exploiting attaching portable edge
devices on drones for data processing close to the sources, to achieve high performance …

Energy-aware dynamic computation offloading for video analytics in multi-UAV systems

J Yu, A Vandanapu, C Qu, S Wang… - 2020 International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems with high-resolution cameras have been
found to be useful for operations such as disaster management and smart farming. These …