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Networked 360$^\circ$ video has become increasingly popular. Despite the immersive experience for users, its sheer data volume, even with the latest H.266 coding and viewport adaptation, remains a significant challenge to today's networks. Recent studies have shown that integrating deep learning into video coding can significantly enhance compression efficiency, providing new opportunities for hig...Show More
Latency is one of the most significant issues in cloud gaming, among which tail latency, mainly attributed to dynamic network environments (i.e., transmission) and limited device computing capacity (e.g., decoding), has attracted increasing attention. To mitigate the tail latency, different from existing researches considering resource adaptation such as bitrate adaptation, we propose TailClip, wh...Show More
In this paper, we advocate ${\sf NetDPI}$NetDPI, a novel and efficient Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) solution built-in 5G Data Plane for multi-access edge computing, leveraging the unique forwarding while computing capability of emerging programmable switches. As the cornerstone, we propose ${\sf FIVE}$FIVE, the first Filtering-plus-Verification algorithm tailored to programmable switches to achiev...Show More
Apart from the promising potential, federated learning (FL) faces challenges, such as high communication costs and client heterogeneity. Although numerous works have been proposed to address these issues, they lack a holistic perspective to balance all requirements. Moreover, these solutions have not fully utilized the underlying computation capability and network resources, resulting in suboptima...Show More
Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) videos have been getting increasing attention. However, existing video streaming solutions fail to deliver them due to the extremely high bandwidth requirement. The emerging cloud native 5G networks have opened up the possibility of enhancing UHD video quality by leveraging in-network video streaming. Unfortunately, the restricted storage and bandwidth of in-network ser...Show More
Decentralized federated learning across edge networks can leverage blockchain with consensus mechanisms for training information exchange among participants over costly and distrustful wide-area networks. However, it is non-trivial to optimally operate the blockchain to support decentralized federated learning due to the complex cost structure of blockchain operations, the balance between blockcha...Show More
In this paper, we advocate CPN-FedSL, a novel and flexible Federated Split Learning (FedSL) framework over Computing Power Network (CPN). We build a dedicated model to capture the basic settings and learning characteristics (e.g., training flow, latency and convergence). Based on this model, we introduce Resource Usage Effectiveness (RUE), a novel performance metric integrating training utility wi...Show More
Mobile edge computing is a promising framework for mobile virtual reality (VR) game. Although there are several existing studies on the edge assisted mobile VR game system, they lack the consideration of provisioning services with satisfactory QoE to a large number of users. In this paper, we consider the problem of providing QoE-oriented edge assisted mobile VR game as a service to multiple users...Show More
360$^\circ$∘ videos generally require a large amount of bandwidth between video servers and users, which puts much burden on the current CDN-based single-source video streaming solutions. The emerging cloud native 5G networks can bridge the distance between video servers and users by leveraging in-network single-source video streaming to enhance 360$^\circ$∘ video quality. Unfortunately, the restr...Show More
Recent advances in deep learning models have pushed Super-Resolution (SR) techniques to an unprecedented altitude, enabling high-quality image rendering with variable scaling size and natural fidelity. To deploy them on resource-constrained mobile devices, however, confronts significant chal-lenges of excessively long latency and poor user experience. To this end, we propose Apie, an edge-assisted...Show More
To facilitate the emerging applications in 5G networks, mobile network operators will provide many network functions in terms of control and prediction. Recently, they have recognized the power of machine learning (ML) and started to explore its potential to facilitate those network functions. Nevertheless, the current ML models for network functions are often derived in an offline manner, which i...Show More
Cloud gaming has been very popular in recent years, but issues relating to maintaining low interaction delay to guarantee satisfactory user experience are still prevalent. We observe that the server-side processing delay in cloud gaming system could be heavily influenced by how the resources are partitioned among processes. However, finding the optimal partitioning policy that minimizes the respon...Show More
Image-based three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction utilizes a set of photos to build 3D model and can be widely used in many emerging applications such as augmented reality (AR) and disaster recovery. Most of existing 3D reconstruction methods require a mobile user to walk around the target area and reconstruct objectives with a hand-held camera, which is inefficient and time-consuming. To meet the...Show More
360° video services require extremely high bitrate and frame rate videos for a good immersive experience. Traditional solutions for adaptive bitrate streaming are still limited by currently insufficient and fluctuating bandwidth. Besides, viewpoint-aware or tile-based solutions would lead more rebuffering due to the short viewpoint prediction window. In this paper, we present EC-360, a novel video...Show More
The incoming 5G cellular network is stepping into a densification era, where various kinds of base stations are densely deployed to provide fruitful mobile services such as video streaming. In order to improve the performance of these mobile services, the way to optimally allocate cellular resources for the network-wide users is a crucial problem. In this paper, we consider the mobile Ultra-High-D...Show More
Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) videos have absorbed great attention in recent years. However, as they are of significant size, streaming them require an extremely high bandwidth to achieve a good quality of experience, which poses a great challenge on the current cellular networks. Realizing the great potentials of coordinated multi-point joint transmission (JT-CoMP) in 5G Ultra Dense Network, we pro...Show More
With the advancements of wireless network transmission technology, 2D video is hard to satisfy people's requirement for multimedia. Therefore, the high-definition 3D video that can bring a whole new viewing experience is starting to enter people's vision. However, when a tremendously large number of users play 3D video, it puts enormous computational pressure on the cloud server, which incurs high...Show More
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been extensively applied in a variety of tasks, including image classification, object detection, etc. However, DNNs are computationally expensive, making on-device inference impractical due to limited hardware capabilities and high energy consumption. This paper first incorporates downside risk into characteristics of per-request processing latency for DNN serving...Show More
360° UHD videos have absorbed great attention in recent years. However, as they are of significant size and usually watched from a close range, they require extremely high bandwidth for a good immersive experience, which poses a great challenge on the current single-source adaptive streaming strategies. Realizing the great potentials of tile-based video streaming and pervasive edge services, we ad...Show More
360° or panoramic video applications have seen booming development and absorbed great attention in recent years. However, as they are of significant size and usually watched from a close distance, they require an extremely higher bandwidth and frame rate for a good immersible experience, which poses a great challenge on mobile networks. Realizing the great potentials of tile-based transcoding, vie...Show More
With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT), zillions of bytes of data are generated at the network edge, incurring an urgent need to push the frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) to network edge so as to fully unleash the potential of the IoT big data. To materialize such a vision which is known as edge intelligence, federated learning is emerging as a promising solution to enable edg...Show More
Internet-of-Things (IoT) big data streaming applications, such as video surveillance and automatic driving, tend to use mobile-edge computing (MEC) infrastructure to enhance their performance and augment their functionalities. Although extensive previous studies have worked on offloading requests to MEC servers, none of them has comprehensively and thoroughly considered the important features of I...Show More
As a significant portion of big data, geospatial big data is experiencing extremely rapid growth, which brings tremendous pressure and great challenges on geospatial data servers. To provide better services for users, it is an important approach to enable the transmission of geospatial data with QoS, which mainly focus on bandwidth. Therefore, based on the software-defined network(SDN), this paper...Show More
In this paper, we consider MEC in NGFI-based C-RAN, a novel and practical MEC framework to facilitate the emerging mobile applications such as AR/VR and video surveillance. However, it is challenging to implement it in a cost-efficient manner (i.e., optimized operational expenditures and service performance), due to the coupled resource provision, service deployment and workload distribution. To s...Show More
In this paper, we propose Chimera, a novel hybrid edge computing framework, integrated with the emerging edge cloud radio access network, to augment network-wide vehicle resources for future large-scale vehicular crowdsensing applications, by leveraging a multitude of cooperative vehicles and the virtual machine (VM) pool in the edge cloud via the control of the application manager deployed in the...Show More