中国邮电高校学报(英文) ›› 2022, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (1): 13-26.doi: 10.19682/j.cnki.1005-8885.2022.2003

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Air interface design for edge intelligence

Zhang Zezhong, Chen Mingzhe, Xu Jie, Cui Shuguang   

  1. 1. Future Network of Intelligence Institute (FNii), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518172, China 2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
  • 收稿日期:2021-12-13 修回日期:2022-01-30 接受日期:2022-02-05 出版日期:2022-02-26 发布日期:2022-02-28
  • 通讯作者: Corresponding author: Xu Jie E-mail:xujie@cuhk.edu.cn

Air interface design for edge intelligence

Zhang Zezhong, Chen Mingzhe, Xu Jie, Cui Shuguang   

  1. 1. Future Network of Intelligence Institute (FNii), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518172, China 2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
  • Received:2021-12-13 Revised:2022-01-30 Accepted:2022-02-05 Online:2022-02-26 Published:2022-02-28
  • Contact: Corresponding author: Xu Jie E-mail:xujie@cuhk.edu.cn

摘要: Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) give rise to a plethora of intelligent applications and services based on machine learning algorithms such as deep neural networks (DNNs). With the proliferation of Internet of things (IoT) and mobile edge computing, these applications are being pushed to the network edge, thus enabling a new paradigm termed as edge intelligence. This provokes the demand for decentralized implementation of learning algorithms over edge networks to distill the intelligence from distributed data, and also calls for new communication-efficient designs in air interfaces to improve the privacy by avoiding raw data exchange. This paper provides a comprehensive overview on edge intelligence, by particularly focusing on two paradigms named edge learning and edge inference, as well as the corresponding communication-efficient solutions for their implementations in wireless systems. Several insightful theoretical results and design guidelines are also provided.

关键词: artificial intelligence, air interface, edge intelligence, edge inference, federated learning

Abstract: Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) give rise to a plethora of intelligent applications and services based on machine learning algorithms such as deep neural networks (DNNs). With the proliferation of Internet of things (IoT) and mobile edge computing, these applications are being pushed to the network edge, thus enabling a new paradigm termed as edge intelligence. This provokes the demand for decentralized implementation of learning algorithms over edge networks to distill the intelligence from distributed data, and also calls for new communication-efficient designs in air interfaces to improve the privacy by avoiding raw data exchange. This paper provides a comprehensive overview on edge intelligence, by particularly focusing on two paradigms named edge learning and edge inference, as well as the corresponding communication-efficient solutions for their implementations in wireless systems. Several insightful theoretical results and design guidelines are also provided.

Key words: artificial intelligence, air interface, edge intelligence, edge inference, federated learning

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