Enabling Collaborative and Intelligent Service Provisioning in Mobile Edge Networks

无线技术的即将到来的发展预计将导致连接设备的速度，延迟和数量的前所未有的飞跃，同时深刻地改变我们的连接社会。第五代（5G）网络及以后的网络预计将连接数十亿物联网（IoT）设备，同时也带来了生成的数据流量的急剧增长，以及新的和不可预见的应用的承诺。要满足新型应用的高数据速率、高移动性和低延迟的要求，需要利用网络操作并使其适应应用的上下文和动态环境，并支持在数据生成地附近进行实时处理的解决方案。* 拟议的NSERC发现资助计划的基本目标是为移动的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型应用提供服务，同时处理动态物联网流量和多样化的服务需求。为了实现这一目标，我们将在移动的边缘网络上整合创新的自主、协作和智能策略。我们将研究如何利用这些策略来实现新的预测（流量，移动性等）。以及服务感知技术，用于在边缘动态地调整网络资源分配和编排，以满足应用的各种服务质量需求。在实现接近源的处理和分析时，我们将研究移动的边缘网络在提供边缘机器学习和推理功能的自主和协作配置的交错结构方面的工具作用。* 创新研究计划将为智能移动的边缘网络概念的统一方法奠定基础，为服务创新的出现和繁荣提供新的舞台，从而提高加拿大在移动的服务和电信领域的领导地位。* 在该计划中接受培训的高素质人员将获得行业需求很高的理论和实践知识和专业知识，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*****