Edge computing is a method of optimizing cloud computing systems by performing data processing at the edge of the network, closer to the users and sources of data. As data processing is traditionally done in large data centers, typically located at the center of the network, the edge computing paradigm will reduce the communication bottleneck to the data centers, thereby improving overall performance. This becomes more important as the number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices increases.
Our research focuses on how to coordinate the computational nodes at the edge of the network in a distributed way to collaboratively process incoming data. Our current plan is to use a distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) formulation and to develop DCOP algorithms that are tailored to this specific application.
- Jacob Beal, Raytheon BBN Technologies
- Soura Dasgupta, University of Iowa
- Khoi D. Hoang, Washington University in St. Louis
- Bryan Lyles, University of Tennessee
- Partha Pal, Raytheon BBN Technologies
- Aaron Paulos, Raytheon BBN Technologies
- Rick Schantz, Raytheon BBN Technologies
- Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Christabel Wayllace, Washington University in St. Louis
Mission-oriented Adaptive Placement of Task and Data (MAP).Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (2017 – 2021).
- Khoi D. Hoang, Christabel Wayllace, William Yeoh, Jacob Beal, Soura Dasgupta, Yuanqiu Mo, Aaron Paulos, and Jon Schewe. “New Distributed Constraint Reasoning Algorithms for Load Balancing in Edge Computing.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA), to appear, 2019.