scholarly journals CrowdBox: Crowdsourced Network-in-Box Recruitment for Edge Computing-Enabled Industrial Internet of Things

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Pengfei Wang ◽  
Chi Lin ◽  
Zhen Yu ◽  
Leyou Yang ◽  
Qiang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Stackelberg Game ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Stackelberg Equilibrium ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Industrial Internet Of Things ◽  
Industrial Internet ◽  
Communication Demands ◽  
Edge Layer ◽  
Optimal Reward

The rapidly increasing number of smart devices deployed in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environment has been witnessed. To improve communication efficiency, edge computing-enabled Industrial Internet of Things (E-IIoT) has gained attention recently. Nevertheless, E-IIoT still cannot conquer the rapidly increasing communication demands when hundreds of millions of IIoT devices are connected at the same time. Considering the future 6G environment where smart network-in-box (NIB) nodes are everywhere (e.g., deployed in vehicles, buses, backpacks, etc.), we propose a crowdsourcing-based recruitment framework, leveraging the power of the crowd to provide extra communication resources and enhance the communication capabilities. We creatively treat NIB nodes as edge layer devices, and CrowdBox is devised using a Stackelberg game where the E-IIoT system is the leader, and the NIB nodes are the followers. CrowdBox can calculate the optimal reward to reach the unique Stackelberg equilibrium where the utility of E-IIoT can be maximized while none of the NIB nodes can improve its utility by deviating from its strategy. Finally, we evaluate the performance of CrowdBox with extensive simulations with various settings, and it shows that CrowdBox outperforms the compared algorithms in improving system utility and attracting more NIB nodes.

scholarly journals Editorial: Special Section on Pervasive Edge Computing for Industrial Internet of Things

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 5010-5011
Author(s):  
Zhaolong Ning ◽  
Edith Ngai ◽  
Ricky Y. K. Kwok ◽  
Mohammad S. Obaidat
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Industrial Internet Of Things ◽  
Industrial Internet

scholarly journals Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing for Industrial Internet of Things Systems

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 101539-101549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Wu ◽  
Hui Tian ◽  
Gaofeng Nie ◽  
Pengtao Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Mobile Edge Computing ◽  
Industrial Internet Of Things ◽  
Industrial Internet

scholarly journals A Risk-Sensitive Task Offloading Strategy for Edge Computing in Industrial Internet of Things

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Hao ◽  
Ruohai Zhao ◽  
Tao Yang ◽  
Yulin Hu ◽  
Bo Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Conditional Value At Risk ◽  
Industrial Internet Of Things ◽  
Industrial Internet ◽  
End To End ◽  
Task Offloading

Abstract Edge computing has become one of the key enablers for ultra-reliable and low-latency communications in the industrial Internet of Things in the fifth generation communication systems, and is also a promising technology in the future sixth generation communication systems. In this work, we consider the application of edge computing to smart factories for mission-critical task offloading through wireless links. In such scenarios, although high end-to-end delays from the generation to completion of tasks happen with low probability, they may incur severe casualties and property loss, and should be seriously treated. Inspired by the risk management theory widely used in finance, we adopt the Conditional Value at Risk to capture the tail of the delay distribution. An upper bound of the Conditional Value at Risk is derived through analysis of the queues both at the devices and the edge computing servers. We aim to find out the optimal offloading policy taking into consideration both the average and the worst case delay performance of the system. Given that the formulated optimization problem is a non-convex mixed integer non-linear programming problem, a decomposition into sub-problems is performed and a two-stage heuristic algorithm is proposed. Simulation results validate our analysis and indicate that the proposed algorithm can reduce the risk in both the queueing and end-to-end delay.

scholarly journals Research on Intelligent Scheduling Mechanism in Edge Network for Industrial Internet of Things

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Zhenzhong Zhang ◽  
Wei Sun ◽  
Yanliang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Task Scheduling ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Industrial Internet Of Things ◽  
Industrial Internet ◽  
Internet Of Things Technology

With the vigorous development of the Internet of Things, the Internet, cloud computing, and mobile terminals, edge computing has emerged as a new type of Internet of Things technology, which is one of the important components of the Industrial Internet of Things. In the face of large-scale data processing and calculations, traditional cloud computing is facing tremendous pressure, and the demand for new low-latency computing technologies is imminent. As a supplementary expansion of cloud computing technology, mobile edge computing will sink the computing power from the previous cloud to a network edge node. Through the mutual cooperation between computing nodes, the number of nodes that can be calculated is more, the types are more comprehensive, and the computing range is even greater. Broadly, it makes up for the shortcomings of cloud computing technology. Although edge computing technology has many advantages and has certain research and application results, how to allocate a large number of computing tasks and computing resources to computing nodes and how to schedule computing tasks at edge nodes are still challenges for edge computing. In view of the problems encountered by edge computing technology in resource allocation and task scheduling, this paper designs a dynamic task scheduling strategy for edge computing with delay-aware characteristics, which realizes the reasonable utilization of computing resources and is required for edge computing systems. This paper proposes a resource allocation scheme combined with the simulated annealing algorithm, which minimizes the overall performance loss of the system while keeping the system low delay. Finally, it is verified through experiments that the task scheduling and resource allocation methods proposed in this paper can significantly reduce the response delay of the application.

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