Advanced Computational Intelligence in Cloud/Edge Computing

A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "Mathematics and Computer Science".

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College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
Interests: cloud/edge computing; resource optimization; machine learning

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School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4WA, UK
Interests: federated learning; mobile edge computing; cyber security; AI security
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
Interests: mobile edge computing; software-defined networking; network function virtualization; AI/ML-driven resource optimization; performance modeling and analysis
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Dear Colleagues,

Integrating AI and cloud/edge computing fully unleashes their potential values, leading to a new intelligence computing paradigm. However, there are still many open-ended challenges during its implementation, such as limited computing, networks, and energy resources, accompanied by serious security issues. Meanwhile, the dynamic features of cloud/edge environments also complicate matters. Under this landscape, computational intelligence has emerged that focuses on crafting diverse computational techniques inspired by intelligent behaviors in nature and biology. By learning from data and making decisions grounded in discernment, among other methods, such techniques can lead to machines with the capabilities to solve complicated problems. Therefore, advanced computational intelligence exhibits great promise and abundant prospects for applications in cloud/edge computing, which can serve as both an enabler that bolsters the service capabilities and as a problem-solver, surmounting the obstacles during the system design. This Special Issue endeavors to assemble scholarly studies that explore the paths of synergizing cloud/edge computing with advanced computational intelligence to guide the development of next-generation network technology.

The topics of this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

  • Uncertainty-aware intelligence in dynamic cloud/edge environments;
  • Computing, networks, and energy optimization for cloud/edge intelligence applications;
  • Advanced deep reinforcement learning for cloud/edge computing;
  • Novel task scheduling and offloading methods in cloud/edge computing;
  • Novel service deployment and migration methods in cloud/edge computing;
  • Advanced federated learning for cloud/edge computing;
  • Novel traffic prediction and content-caching methods in cloud/edge computing;
  • Cost-aware federated learning in cloud/edge computing;
  • Security and privacy protection for cloud/edge intelligence applications;
  • Model compression for efficient training and inference in cloud/edge computing.

Prof. Dr. Zheyi Chen
Dr. Zhengxin Yu
Dr. Wang Miao
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • cloud/edge computing
  • resource optimization
  • deep reinforcement learning
  • task scheduling/offloading
  • service deployment/migration
  • federated learning
  • traffic prediction
  • content caching
  • security/privacy protection
  • model compression

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On the Optimization of Kubernetes toward the Enhancement of Cloud Computing
by Subrota Kumar Mondal, Zhen Zheng and Yuning Cheng
Mathematics 2024, 12(16), 2476; https://doi.org/10.3390/math12162476 - 10 Aug 2024
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With the vigorous development of big data and cloud computing, containers are becoming the main platform for running applications due to their flexible and lightweight features. Using a container cluster management system can more effectively manage multiocean containers on multiple machine nodes, and [...] Read more.
With the vigorous development of big data and cloud computing, containers are becoming the main platform for running applications due to their flexible and lightweight features. Using a container cluster management system can more effectively manage multiocean containers on multiple machine nodes, and Kubernetes has become a leader in container cluster management systems, with its powerful container orchestration capabilities. However, the current default Kubernetes components and settings have appeared to have a performance bottleneck and are not adaptable to complex usage environments. In particular, the issues are data distribution latency, inefficient cluster backup and restore leading to poor disaster recovery, poor rolling update leading to downtime, inefficiency in load balancing and handling requests, poor autoscaling and scheduling strategy leading to quality of service (QoS) violations and insufficient resource usage, and many others. Aiming at the insufficient performance of the default Kubernetes platform, this paper focuses on reducing the data distribution latency, improving the cluster backup and restore strategies toward better disaster recovery, optimizing zero-downtime rolling updates, incorporating better strategies for load balancing and handling requests, optimizing autoscaling, introducing better scheduling strategy, and so on. At the same time, the relevant experimental analysis is carried out. The experiment results show that compared with the default settings, the optimized Kubernetes platform can handle more than 2000 concurrent requests, reduce the CPU overhead by more than 1.5%, reduce the memory by more than 0.6%, reduce the average request time by an average of 7.6%, and reduce the number of request failures by at least 32.4%, achieving the expected effect. Full article
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Joint UAV Deployment and Task Offloading in Large-Scale UAV-Assisted MEC: A Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm
by Qijie Qiu, Lingjie Li, Zhijiao Xiao, Yuhong Feng, Qiuzhen Lin and Zhong Ming
Mathematics 2024, 12(13), 1966; https://doi.org/10.3390/math12131966 - 25 Jun 2024
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With the development of digital economy technologies, mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising computing paradigm that provides mobile devices with closer edge computing resources. Because of high mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively utilized to augment MEC to [...] Read more.
With the development of digital economy technologies, mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising computing paradigm that provides mobile devices with closer edge computing resources. Because of high mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been extensively utilized to augment MEC to improve scalability and adaptability. However, with more UAVs or mobile devices, the search space grows exponentially, leading to the curse of dimensionality. This paper focus on the combined challenges of the deployment of UAVs and the task of offloading mobile devices in a large-scale UAV-assisted MEC. Specifically, the joint UAV deployment and task offloading problem is first modeled as a large-scale multiobjective optimization problem with the purpose of minimizing energy consumption while improving user satisfaction. Then, a large-scale UAV deployment and task offloading multiobjective optimization method based on the evolutionary algorithm, called LDOMO, is designed to address the above formulated problem. In LDOMO, a CSO-based evolutionary strategy and a MLP-based evolutionary strategy are proposed to explore solution spaces with different features for accelerating convergence and maintaining the diversity of the population, and two local search optimizers are designed to improve the quality of the solution. Finally, simulation results show that our proposed LDOMO outperforms several representative multiobjective evolutionary algorithms. Full article
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