Convergence of Edge Computing and Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Survey

In the paper

“As a typical and more widely used new form of applications [9], various deep learning-based intelligent services and applications have changed many aspects of people's lives due to the great advantages of Deep Learning (DL) in the fields of Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) [10].”

What the sources say

• Partly supported

  The Introduction (p. 1) describes potential applications of fast object detection in driving, assistive devices, and robotics, supporting the computer-vision portion of the claim. It does not address natural language processing or establish that deep-learning applications have already changed many aspects of people's lives. (LLM, conf=0.86)

  cites [9] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
• Partly supported

  The Introduction (p. 4) reports deep learning outperforming other methods in numerous applications, and §5.22 (p. 25) describes advances in speech recognition and machine translation. Section 5.21 (p. 24) describes computer-vision applications in medical diagnosis, but frames their wider benefits as possibilities. These passages support the claimed advantages in vision and language-related tasks, not the assertion that applications have already changed many aspects of people’s lives. (LLM, conf=0.84)

  cites [10] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“With network slicing, customized and optimized resources can be provided for Edge DL services, which can help reduce latency caused by access networks and support dense access to these services [77].”

What the sources say

• ?Could not verify

  The Introduction (p. 2) discusses compressing neural networks for mobile devices, and Future Work (p. 12) discusses customized hardware for those compressed models. Neither addresses network slicing, access-network latency, or dense access to Edge DL services; searches for those terms and close paraphrases found no relevant passage. (LLM, conf=0.78)

  cites [77] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“For a computation-intensive task, it will be reasonably segmented and dispatched separately to the end, edge and cloud for execution, reducing the execution delay of the task while ensuring the accuracy of the results [12], [49], [50].”

What the sources say

• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [12] source
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  Section 2.3 describes partitioning a neural network between an edge device and the cloud, not dispatching a task across separate end, edge, and cloud tiers. Section 3.1 reports little accuracy loss and faster inference for some tested networks, but its table shows speed-ups below 1× for others. The source therefore does not support a general claim that this arrangement reduces execution delay. (LLM, conf=0.88)

  cites [49] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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In the paper

“Besides, in order to optimize performance and efficiency, [108] presents an edge service framework, i.e., EdgeEye, which realizes a high-level abstraction of real-time video analytic functions based on DL.”

What the sources say

• Supported

  The Abstract identifies EdgeEye as an edge service framework for real-time video analytics and says it provides a high-level abstraction of video analysis functions based on DNNs. It also states that EdgeEye uses optimized inference engines for performance and efficiency. (LLM, conf=0.95)

  cites [108] source

In the paper

“In this way, the multi-capacity model provides variable resourceaccuracy trade-offs with a compact memory footprint, hence ensuring efficient multi-tenant DL at the end level.”

What the sources say

• Supported

  The Introduction states that NestDNN’s nested models provide varied resource–accuracy trade-offs with a compact memory footprint. It also describes NestDNN as enabling efficient multi-tenant on-device deep learning; the source supports the claim’s reference to the end-device level. (LLM, conf=0.93)

  cites [105] source

In the paper

“The main idea of this system is partitioning the DL model, used for inspection, and deploying them on the end, edge and cloud layer separately for improving the inspection efficiency.”

What the sources say

• Partly supported

  The Deep Model section (p. 4) says cameras capture images, fog nodes perform lower-level inference, and cloud servers complete inference when needed. The Offloading Strategy section (p. 6) describes allocating model layers to fog devices and cloud servers to improve efficiency. It does not describe deploying a separate part of the model on an end-device layer, so the claimed three-layer deployment is not supported. (LLM, conf=0.88)

  cites [113] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“In order to follow these principles, intelligent manufacturing should first address response latency, risk control, and privacy protection, and hence requires DL and edge computing.”

What the sources say

• Partly supported

  The Introduction (p. 2) describes response latency as a concern and proposes deep learning with fog computing for real-time manufacturing inspection. It does not establish that intelligent manufacturing generally requires these technologies, or identify risk control and privacy protection as reasons for adopting them. (LLM, conf=0.88)

  cites [113] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“For autonomous manufacturing inspection, DeepIns [113] uses DL and edge computing to guarantee performance and process delay respectively.”

What the sources say

• Supported

  Section III (p. 4) describes DeepIns as a deep model designed for strong classification performance in a fog-computing environment. The Introduction (p. 2) says its fog-side early exit reduces response latency, and the conclusion (p. 8) describes the system as real-time and efficient. (LLM, conf=0.90)

  cites [113] source

In the paper

“this solution can decompose the whole program at runtime instead of manually partitioning of programmers before program deploying.”

What the sources say

• ?Could not verify

  The Introduction (p. 2) and Federated Dropout section (p. 4) discuss reducing federated-learning model size and client computation, not decomposing a program at runtime. Searches for MAUI, runtime program partitioning, and pre-deployment manual partitioning found no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.76)

  cites [178] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“The RAN controllers deployed at edge nodes are introduced in [180] to collect the data and run DL services, while the network controller, placed in the cloud, orchestrates the operations of the RAN controllers.In this manner, after running and feeding analytics and extract relevant metrics to DL models, these controllers can provide DL services to the users at the network edge.”

What the sources say

• Partly supported

  The Contributions section (p. 2) describes edge-deployed RAN controllers collecting data and running an ML infrastructure, with a cloud controller orchestrating them and the architecture providing new services to users. The source says machine learning, however, not specifically deep learning (DL); its listed techniques are regressors. The claim’s DL-specific description is therefore unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.88)

  cites [180] Polese, 2018 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“Communication expansion: 1.73×-1.98×”

What the sources say

• ?Could not verify

  Sections 3.3–3.4 (pp. 4–5) report computational cost and parameter counts, not communication expansion. Searches for communication overhead and the 1.73×–1.98× range found no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.76)

  cites [222] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“q-FFL minimizes an aggregate re-weighted loss parameterized by q, so that devices with higher loss are given higher relative weight, thus encouraging less variance (i.e., more fairness) in the accuracy distribution.”

What the sources say

• Supported

  The Introduction (p. 1) states that q-FFL minimizes a q-parameterized, reweighted aggregate loss that gives higher-loss devices greater relative weight. Section 4.2 (p. 7) reports that q > 0 produces fairer testing-accuracy distributions with lower variance. (LLM, conf=0.95)

  cites [221] Li, 2019 source
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In the paper

“Downlink reduction: 14×; Uplink reduction: 28×; Local computation reduction: 1.7×”

What the sources say

• ?Could not verify

  The Introduction (p. 1) discusses reducing storage and computational costs, and Quantization and Binarization (p. 2) describes model compression. Neither passage reports downlink, uplink, and local-computation reductions of 14×, 28×, and 1.7×. Searches for those terms and figures found no passage addressing the claimed result. (LLM, conf=0.73)

  cites [205] Caldas, 2018 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“Experimental results corroborate Federate-dAveraging is robust to unbalanced and non-IID data and can facilitate the training process, viz., reducing the rounds of communication needed to train a DL model.”

What the sources say

• Supported

  The Introduction (p. 1) explicitly says FederatedAveraging is robust to unbalanced and non-IID data and reduces the communication rounds needed to train a deep network on decentralized data. The Experimental Results (p. 6) report speedups on non-IID and unbalanced data, supporting the citing sentence’s reference to experimental results. (LLM, conf=0.94)

  cites [198] McMahan, Communication-efficient learning of deep networks from decentralized data source

In the paper

“Scalability improvement: up to 1.5e6 clients”

What the sources say

• Partly supported

  The Operational Profile (p. 9) supports the general scalability claim: the system handled approximately 10 million daily active devices. It does not report 1.5 million clients as a scalability limit or measured result; it separately reports up to 10,000 devices participating simultaneously. (LLM, conf=0.85)

  cites [199] Bonawitz, 2019 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“Top 1 accuracy imrpovement: 5.59%-5.89%;Communication traffic reduction: 92%”

What the sources say

• Partly supported

  The Conclusion (p. 8) reports top-1 accuracy gains of 5.59% on imbalanced EMNIST and 5.89% on imbalanced CINIC-10 versus FedAvg. The Overhead section (p. 8), however, reports an 81.7% reduction in communication cost for its measured comparison, not 92%. (LLM, conf=0.91)

  cites [212] Duan, 2019 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“Adaptively minimizing q-FFL avoids the burden of handcrafting fairness constraints, and can adjust the goal according to the required fairness dynamically, achieving the effect of reducing the variance of accuracy distribution among partici-pated devices.”

What the sources say

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  Split into 2 atoms — 2 confirmed, 0 partially supported, 0 disputed, 0 misattributed, 0 unverifiable. Expand the claim to see per-atom verdicts.

  cites [221] Li, 2019 source

In the paper

“First, DGC stipulates that only important gradients are exchanged, i.e., only gradients larger than a heuristically given threshold are transmitted.In order to avoid the information losing, the rest of the gradients are accumulated locally until they exceed the threshold.To be noted, gradients whether being immediately transmitted or accumulated for later exchanging will be coded and compressed, a”

What the sources say

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  Section 3.1 (p. 3) says DGC uses gradient magnitude as a heuristic, transmits gradients above a threshold, and accumulates the rest locally until they become large enough to send. It also describes encoding the sparse updates; Section 3.2 (p. 4) confirms that thresholded accumulated gradients are encoded and sent over the network. (LLM, conf=0.93)

  cites [191] Lin, 2017 source

In the paper

“Most of the gradient exchanges are redundant, and hence updated gradients can be compressed to cut down the communication cost while preserving the training accuracy (such as DGC in [191]).”

What the sources say

• Supported

  The Abstract (p. 1) says that 99.9% of gradient exchange in distributed SGD is redundant and reports that DGC reduces communication bandwidth without losing accuracy. The Introduction (p. 2) likewise reports compression of up to 600× without loss of accuracy. (LLM, conf=0.94)

  cites [191] Lin, 2017 source

In the paper

“Without requiring uploading data for central cloud training, FL [198], [199] can allow edge devices to train their local DL models with their own collected data and upload only the updated model instead.”

What the sources say

• Supported

  The Introduction (p. 1) says each client keeps its training dataset locally, computes an update to the server's global model, and communicates only that update. It also identifies local SGD on each client as the method for training deep networks without centrally storing the data. (LLM, conf=0.94)

  cites [198] McMahan, Communication-efficient learning of deep networks from decentralized data source
• Supported

  The Introduction (p. 1) says the system trains a deep neural network on data stored on a phone that never leaves the device, then combines the weights in the cloud. The operational profile (p. 13) specifies that devices upload updates to the global model, matching the claim’s distinction between uploading model updates and uploading training data. (LLM, conf=0.94)

  cites [199] Bonawitz, 2019 source

In the paper

“Communication rounds reduction: 10-100×”

What the sources say

• Supported

  In Experimental Results (p. 8), Table 3 reports FedAvg reaching accuracy targets in about 49–64 times fewer communication rounds than standard SGD. The same section reports 2,000 FedAvg rounds versus 197,500 SGD updates for similar test accuracy—approximately 99 times fewer. These experimental results support the stated 10–100× reduction. (LLM, conf=0.90)

  cites [198] McMahan, Communication-efficient learning of deep networks from decentralized data source

In the paper

“By using the cross-modal transfer in the learning of edge devices across different sensing modalities, required labeled data and the training process can be largely reduced and accelerated, respectively.”

What the sources say

• Supported

  The Abstract states that RecycleML uses cross-modal transfer across edge-device sensing modalities to reduce labeled-data needs and speed training. The Introduction reports these gains on the CMActivity activity-recognition dataset, and the Conclusion likewise reports reduced training time. (LLM, conf=0.94)

  cites [284] source

In the paper

“Existing FL methods [198], [199] focus on synchronous training, and can only process hundreds of devices in parallel.”

What the sources say

• Partly supported

  The Introduction (p. 2) says this paper assumes a synchronous update scheme, supporting that characterization of its method. It does not say existing federated-learning methods can only process hundreds of devices in parallel; the 100-client figure in the Experimental Results (p. 5) describes one experimental setup, not a capacity limit. (LLM, conf=0.87)

  cites [198] McMahan, Communication-efficient learning of deep networks from decentralized data sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
• Partly supported

  The Introduction (p. 1) says the authors chose to support synchronous rounds, and Future Work (p. 10) says current FL algorithms can efficiently utilize only hundreds of devices in parallel. The claim drops the efficiency qualifier: the Operational Profile (p. 9) reports up to 10,000 devices participating simultaneously, so the paper does not establish a hard limit of hundreds that can be processed. (LLM, conf=0.87)

  cites [199] Bonawitz, 2019 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“The application of vanilla FL is using RNN for next-word-prediction [199], in which the training data can be obtained along with users' daily inputs.”

What the sources say

• Supported

  The Applications section (p. 8) says Gboard used the FL platform to train an RNN for next-word prediction. It also says FL training data can be generated on devices, with labels inferred from user activity such as typed words, supporting the description of data obtained from users’ inputs. (LLM, conf=0.91)

  cites [199] Bonawitz, 2019 source

In the paper

“To solve this kind of task offloading problem is NP-hard [244], since at least combination optimization of communication and computing resources along with the contention of edge devices is required.”

What the sources say

• Partly supported

  The Introduction (p. 2) says finding a centralized optimal multi-user offloading solution is NP-hard in a multi-channel wireless interference environment, and that the model accounts for communication and computation. But it treats wireless contention as a separate extension; the cited passages do not establish that contention is required for, or explains, the NP-hardness claim. Related Work (p. 12) also limits the result to the generalized multi-channel problem, noting that the single-channel case is not NP-hard. (LLM, conf=0.85)

  cites [244] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured

In the paper

“Privacy: the data required for DL might carry a lot of private information, and privacy issues are critical to areas such as smart home and cities.”

In the paper

“a large number of computation tasks need to be delivered to the cloud for processing [3], which undoubtedly poses serious challenges on network capacity and the computing power of cloud computing infrastructures;”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [3] source

In the paper

“3) the hierarchical computing architecture provides more reliable DL computation;”

In the paper

“Reliability: most cloud computing applications relies on wireless communications and backbone networks for connecting users to services, but for many industrial scenarios, intelligent services must be highly reliable, even when network connections are lost;”

In the paper

“Cost: training and inference of DL models in the cloud requires devices or users to transmit massive amounts of data to the cloud, thus consuming a large amount of network bandwidth;”

In the paper

“4) with richer data and application scenarios, edge computing can promote the pervasive application of DL and realize the prospect of”

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  cites [13] 2019

In the paper

“Latency: the delay to access cloud services is generally not guaranteed and might not be short enough to satisfy the requirements of many time-critical applications such as cooperative autonomous driving [11];”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [11] source

In the paper

“In fact, edge computing is gradually being combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI), benefiting each other in terms of the realization of edge intelligence and intelligent edge as depicted in Fig. 1.”

In the paper

“Since the edge is closer to users than the cloud, edge computing is expected to solve many of these issues.”

In the paper

“on one hand, edge intelligence is expected to push DL computations from the cloud to the edge as much as possible, thus enabling various distributed, lowlatency and reliable intelligent services.”

In the paper

“3) powerful cloud backup, the cloud can provide powerful processing capabilities and massive storage when the edge cannot afford.”

In the paper

“2) agile service response, services hosted at the edge can significantly reduce the delay of data transmissions and improve the response speed;”

In the paper

“According to a Cisco white paper [1], 50 billion IoT devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020.”

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  cites [1] 2019

In the paper

“5) diversified and valuable DL services can broaden the commercial value of edge computing and accelerate its deployment and growth.”

In the paper

“Cisco estimates that nearly 850 Zettabytes (ZB) of data will be generated each year outside the cloud by 2021, while global data center traffic is only 20.6 ZB [2].”

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  cites [2] 2019

In the paper

“With respect to CV, NLP, and AI, DL is adopted in a myriad of applications and corroborates its superior performance [78].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [78] source

In the paper

“Unfortunately, executing these tasks in the cloud often incurs high bandwidth consumption, unexpected latency, and reliability issues.”

In the paper

“Edge nodes are expected to have computing and caching capabilities and to provide high-quality network connection and computing services near end devices.”

In the paper

“Nonetheless, the edge computing architecture, on account of it covers a large number of distributed edge devices, can be utilized to better serve DL.”

In the paper

“Currently, a large number of GPUs, TPUs, or FPGAs are required to be deployed in the cloud to process DL service requests.”

In the paper

“For DL services with complex configuration and intensive resource requirements, edge computing systems with advanced and excellent microservice architecture are the future development direction.”

In the paper

“Software-defined Networking (SDN) allows rapid deployment of services, network programmability and multi-tenancy support, through three key innovations [72]: 1) Decoupling of control planes and data planes; 2) Centralized and programmable control planes; 3) Standardized application programming interface.”

What the sources say

• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [72] source

In the paper

“For example, LAVEA [106] attaches edge nodes to the same access point or BS as well as the end devices, which ensure that services can be as ubiquitous as Internet access.”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [106] source

In the paper

“There are two common ways to perform distributed training, i.e., data parallelism and model parallelism [95]- [98] as illustrated in Fig. 10.”

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  cites [95]- [98]

In the paper

“Typical network optimization methodologies rely on fixed mathematical models; however, it is difficult to accurately model rapidly changing edge network environments and systems.”

In the paper

“In general, VM is better at isolating while container provides easier deployment of repetitive tasks [69].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [69] source

In the paper

“The focus of this collaborative paradigm is not only the successful completion of tasks but also achieving the optimal balance of equipment energy consumption, server loads, transmission and execution delays.”

In the paper

“Coincidentally, a large number of end devices, edge nodes, and cloud data centers, are scattered and envisioned to be connected by virtue of edge computing networks.These distributed devices can potentially be powerful contributors once the DL training jumps out of the cloud.”

In the paper

“The edge computing architecture will become an important complement to the cloud, even replacing the role of the cloud in some scenarios.”

In the paper

“Edge computing cannot provide that resources for DL services as the cloud does.”

In the paper

“To fully exploit the bond function of the edge, VideoEdge [109] implements an end-edge-cloud hierarchical architecture to help achieve load balancing concerning analytical tasks while maintaining high analysis accuracy.”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [109] source

In the paper

“At the end level, video capture devices, such as smartphones and surveillance cameras are responsible for video capture, media data compression [102], image preprocessing, and image segmentation [103].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [102] source
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In the paper

“Training a large DL model generally requires a lot of computation resources, even thousands of CPUs are required to train a large-scale DL model.”

In the paper

“The combination of edge computing and DL to form high-performance Edge DL services requires the coordinated integration of computing, networking and communication resources, as depicted in Fig. 8.”

In the paper

“Certainly, edge devices typically have limited computing power or power consumption compared to the cloud.”

In the paper

“Container virtualization for edge computing can effectively reduce the workload execution time with high performance and storage requirements, and can also deploy a large number of services in a scalable and straightforward fashion [70].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [70] source

In the paper

“In addition, edge nodes also have the ability to cache, which can improve the response time by caching popular contents.”

In the paper

“A container consists of a single file that includes an application and execution environment with all dependencies, which makes it enable efficient service handoff to cope with user mobility [71].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [71] source

In the paper

“Therefore, by deploying edge nodes to perform the computation task, the task processing can be accelerated while ensuring accuracy.”

In the paper

“Further, Edge DL services typically require high bandwidth, low latency, and dynamic network configuration, while Software-defined Networking (SDN) allows rapid deployment of services, network programmability and multi-tenancy support, through three key innovations [72]:”

In the paper

“For example, with the support of NFV/SDN, edge nodes can be efficiently orchestrated and integrated with cloud data centers [73].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [73] source

In the paper

“However, the edge computing community has not yet reached a consensus on the standardized definitions, architectures and protocols of edge computing [23].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [23] source

In the paper

“In general, applying DL for it requires high computation and storage resources.”

In the paper

“Since the distributed model training performance on an edge node may be significantly impaired due to its local knowledge, the cloud needs to integrate different well-trained DL models to achieve global knowledge.”

What the sources say

• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [102] source

In the paper

“In this section, as depicted in Fig. 11, we summarize related works as a hybrid hierarchical architecture, which is divided into three levels: end, edge, and cloud.”

In the paper

“DL is expected to deal with this problem: when faced with complex and cumbersome network information, DL can rely on its powerful learning and reasoning ability to extract valuable information from data and make adaptive decisions, achieving intelligent maintenance and management accordingly.”

In the paper

“Therefore, the combination of DL and edge computing is not straightforward and requires a comprehensive understanding of DL models and edge computing features for design and deployment.”

In the paper

“At the cloud level, the cloud is responsible for the integration of DL models among the edge layer and updating parameters of distributed DL models on edge nodes [102].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [102] source

In the paper

“Nonetheless, distributed training can facilitate the training process by taking full advantage of parallel servers.”

In the paper

“When the edge is unable to provide the service confidently (e.g., detecting objects with low confidence), the cloud can use its powerful computing power and global knowledge for further processing and assist the edge nodes to update DL models.”

In the paper

“If these operations can largely reduce the size of intermediate data and hence reduce the network traffic, the pressure of backbone networks can be alleviated.”

In the paper

“customized edge DL frameworks can help efficiently 1) match edge platform and DL models; 2) exploit underlying hardware in terms of performance and power; 3) orchestrate and maintain DL services automatically.”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [179] source

In the paper

“For the protection of sensitive home data, the data processing of smart home systems must rely on edge computing.”

In the paper

“Have a speedup ranging from 1.3× to 4× (1.2× to 1.7×) against running in local (clientcloud confguration)”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [106] source

In the paper

“improve throughput by 1.7×-2.2×and speedup CNN inference by 1.7×-3.5×”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [156] source

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“Reduce memory footprint by more than 68% without sacrificing accuracy”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [156] source

In the paper

“Besides, Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication technology can be taken advantaged to further connect vehicles, either as an edge node or an end device managed by DRL-based control policies [112].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [112] source

In the paper

“Since this system involves multi-dimensional control, a DRLbased approach is first utilized to solve the optimization problem for enhancing the holistic system performance.”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [110] source

In the paper

“IONN divides a DL model, prepared for uploading, into multiple partitions, and uploads them to the edge node in sequential.The edge node, receiving the partitioned models, incrementally builds the DL model as each partitioned model arrives, while being able to execute the offloaded partial DL computation even before the entire DL model is uploaded.”

What the sources say

• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [175] source

In the paper

“A natural choice of collaboration is the edge performs data pre-processing and preliminary learning, when the DL tasks are offloaded.Then, the intermediate data, viz., the output of edge architectures, are transmitted to the cloud for further DL computation [176].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [176] source

In the paper

“Besides, the power, energy efficiency, memory footprint limitation of IoT edge devices [116] should also be considered.”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [116] source

In the paper

“Like use cases in [118], [119], edge computing is deployed to optimize indoor positioning systems and home intrusion monitoring so that they can get lower latency than using cloud computing as well as the better accuracy.”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [118] source
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In the paper

“In [12], all layers of a DNN are profiled on the end device and the edge node in terms of the data and computation characteristics, in order to generate performance prediction models.Based on these prediction models, wireless conditions and server load levels, the proposed Neurosurgeon evaluates each candidate point in terms of end-to-end latency or mobile energy consumption and partition the DNN”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [12] source

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“Further, the combination of DL and edge computing can make these intelligent services become more various and powerful.”

In the paper

“DL tasks are usually computationally intensive and requires large memory footprints.”

In the paper

“In intelligent factories, edge computing is conducive to expand the computation resources, the network bandwidth, and the storage capacity of the cloud to the IoT edge, as well as realizing the resource scheduling and data processing during manufacturing and production [114].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [114] source

In the paper

“In contrast to only partitioning the DNN by layers as in [12], FTP can fuse layers and partitions them vertically in a grid fashion, hence minimizing the required memory footprint of participated edge devices regardless of the number of partitions and devices, while reducing communication and task migration cost as well.”

What the sources say

• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [156] source

In the paper

“The original intention of applying edge computing in smart cities is more due to cost and efficiency considerations.”

In the paper

“ALOHA [182] formulates a toolflow: 1) Automate the model design.It generates the optimal model configuration by taking into account the target task, the set of constraints and the target architecture; 2) Optimize the model configuration.It partitions the DL model and accordingly generates architecture-aware mapping information between different inference tasks and the available resources.3) Autom”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [182] source

In the paper

“Nevertheless, the intermediate output, e.g., high-resolution surveillance video streams, should be carefully designed much smaller than the raw input, therefore drastically reducing the network traffic required between the end and the edge (or the edge and the cloud).”

In the paper

“Therefore, DL models should be further customized to fit in the resource-constrained edge, while carefully treating the trade-off between the inference accuracy and the execution latency of them.”

In the paper

“Certainly, the outstanding performance of DL models is inseparable from the support of high-level hardware, and it is difficult to deploy them in the edge with limited resources.”

In the paper

“Nonetheless, with the exponential growth of IoT edge devices, 1) how to remotely manage evolving DL models and 2) how to continuously evaluate these models for them are necessary.”

In the paper

“It is envisioned that vehicles can be connected to improve safety, enhance efficiency, reduce accidents, and decrease traffic congestion in transportation systems [110].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [110] source

In the paper

“MoDNN, proposed in [177], executes DL in a local distributed mobile computing system over a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN).Each layer of DNNs is partitioned into slices to increase parallelism and to reduce memory footprint, and these slices are executed layerby-layer.By the execution parallelism among multiple end devices, the DL computation can be significantly accelerated.”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [177] source

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“Moreover, for important data sources, data safety and privacy protection should be addressed.”

In the paper

“For instance, it endows robots the ability of dynamic visual servicing [120] and enables efficient music cognition system [121].”

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• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [120] Tian, 2018 source
• ?Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [121] source