Enabling Collaborative and Intelligent Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge Networks

即将到来的无线技术发展预计将在速度、延迟和连接设备数量方面带来前所未有的飞跃，同时深刻地改变我们的互联社会。预计第五代（5G）及以后的网络将连接数十亿个物联网（IoT）设备，同时也将带来生成数据流量的急剧增长，并有望实现新颖和不可预见的应用。为了满足新型应用程序对高数据速率、高移动性和低延迟的要求，需要利用和调整网络操作以适应应用程序上下文和动态环境的解决方案，并支持在数据生成位置附近进行实时处理。*****拟议的NSERC Discovery拨款计划的基本目标是为移动边缘网络开发变革性工具、算法和架构，以支持为5G网络及以后引入的新应用提供服务，同时处理动态物联网流量和各种服务需求。为了实现这一目标，我们将在移动边缘网络中集成创新的自主、协作和智能战略。我们将研究如何利用这些策略来允许新的预测（流量、移动性等）和服务感知技术来动态地适应边缘的网络资源分配和编排，以满足应用程序的各种服务质量需求。在实现接近源头的处理和分析方面，我们将研究移动边缘网络在为边缘的机器学习和推理提供自主和协作能力的交错结构方面的重要作用。*****该创新研究计划将为智能移动边缘网络概念的统一方法奠定基础，为服务创新的出现和发展提供新的平台，从而增强加拿大在移动服务和电信领域的领导地位。*****在该计划中训练的高素质人员将获得工业中高需求的理论和实践知识和技术诀窍，通过技术转让巩固NSERC发现计划的影响*****

The upcoming evolution of wireless technologies is expected to lead to an unprecedented leap in speed, latency and number of connected devices while profoundly transforming our connected society. The 5th-generation (5G) networks and beyond are anticipated to connect billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices while also bringing a dramatic growth in generated data traffic, and a promise of novel and unforeseen applications. Meeting the requirements of high data rates, high mobility, and low latency of novel applications requires solutions that leverage and adapt the network operation to the applications' context and dynamic environment and to support real-time processing near where the data is generated. ***** The fundamental goal of the proposed NSERC Discovery grant program is to develop transformative tools, algorithms and architectures for mobile edge networks in supporting the provisioning of services for novel applications introduced by 5G networks and beyond while handling the dynamic IoT traffic and diverse service requirements. To achieve this goal, we will integrate innovative autonomous, collaborative, and intelligent strategies at the mobile edge network. We will investigate how these strategies can be leveraged to allow new predictive (traffic, mobility, etc.) and service-aware techniques to dynamically adapt network resource allocation and orchestration at the edge to meet the diverse quality of service demands of applications. In enabling processing and analytics close to the source, we will investigate the instrumental role of the mobile edge network in providing an interlaced fabric of autonomous and collaborative provisioning of capabilities for machine learning and inference at the edge. *****The innovative research program will lay the ground for a unified approach to the concept of Intelligent Mobile Edge Network that provides a new playground for innovation in services to emerge and thrive, thus enhancing Canada's leadership position in mobile services and telecommunications sectors. *****The highly qualified personnel trained in the program will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge and know-how that are high in demand in industry, consolidating the impacts of the NSERC Discovery program through and technology transfers*****