• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.100-103
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• 2021

5G 의 발전과 함께 차량과 IT 통신 기술을 융합한 어플리케이션들이 급증하면서 멀티 액세스 엣지 컴퓨팅(MEC)이 차세대 기술로 등장했다. 낮은 지연시간 안에 계산 집약적인 서비스들을 제공하기 위해 단독적인 MECS 서버(MECS)에서의 수행이 아닌 다수의 MECS 에서 동시에 연산을 수행할 수 있도록 태스크를 파티셔닝하는 기법이 주목받고 있다. 특히 차량이 다수의 MECS 로 태스크를 파티셔닝하여 오프로딩하는 기법과 하나의 MECS 로 오프로딩한 후 다른 MECS 들로 파티셔닝하여 마이그레이션하는 기법들이 연구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 오프로딩과 마이그레이션을 이용한 파티셔닝 기법들을 서비스 지연시간과 차량의 에너지 소비량 측면에서 성능을 비교 분석을 하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.139-146
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• 2022

With the recent development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the convergence of vehicles and IT technologies, high-performance applications such as autonomous driving are emerging, and multi-access edge computing (MEC) has attracted lots of attentions as next-generation technologies. In order to provide service to these computation-intensive tasks in low latency, many methods have been proposed to partition tasks so that they can be performed through cooperation of multiple MEC servers(MECSs). Conventional methods related to task partitioning have proposed methods for partitioning tasks on vehicles as mobile devices and offloading them to multiple MECSs, and methods for offloading them from vehicles to MECSs and then partitioning and migrating them to other MECSs. In this paper, the performance of task partitioning methods using offloading and migration is compared and analyzed in terms of service delay, blocking rate and energy consumption according to the method of selecting partitioning targets and the number of partitioning. As the number of partitioning increases, the performance of the service delay improves, but the performance of the blocking rate and energy consumption decreases.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.363-370
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• 2023

Object detection technology that accurately recognizes the road and surrounding conditions is a key technology in the field of autonomous driving. In the field of autonomous driving, object detection technology requires real-time performance as well as accuracy of inference services. Task offloading technology should be utilized to apply object detection technology for accuracy and real-time on resource-constrained devices rather than high-performance machines. In this paper, experiments such as performance comparison of task offloading, performance comparison according to input image resolution, and performance comparison according to camera object resolution were conducted and the results were analyzed in relation to the application of task offloading for real-time object detection of autonomous driving in resource-constrained devices. In this experiment, the low-resolution image could derive performance improvement through the application of the task offloading structure, which met the real-time requirements of autonomous driving. The high-resolution image did not meet the real-time requirements for autonomous driving due to the increase in communication time, although there was an improvement in performance. Through these experiments, it was confirmed that object recognition in autonomous driving affects various conditions such as input images and communication environments along with the object recognition model used.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.263-272
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• 2023

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an important factor in increasing production efficiency in industrial sectors, along with data collection, exchange and analysis through large-scale connectivity. However, as traffic increases explosively due to the recent spread of IIoT, an allocation method that can efficiently process traffic is required. In this thesis, I propose a two-stage task offloading decision method to increase successful task throughput in an IIoT environment. In addition, I consider a hybrid offloading system that can offload compute-intensive tasks to a mobile edge computing server via a cellular link or to a nearby IIoT device via a Device to Device (D2D) link. The first stage is to design an incentive mechanism to prevent devices participating in task offloading from acting selfishly and giving difficulties in improving task throughput. Among the mechanism design, McAfee's mechanism is used to control the selfish behavior of the devices that process the task and to increase the overall system throughput. After that, in stage 2, I propose a multi-armed bandit (MAB)-based task offloading decision method in a non-stationary environment by considering the irregular movement of the IIoT device. Experimental results show that the proposed method can obtain better performance in terms of overall system throughput, communication failure rate and regret compared to other existing methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.822-825
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• 2012

모바일 디바이스의 사용이 폭발적으로 증가하고 있고, 특히 스마트폰을 위한 많은 어플리케이션이 소개 되고 있지만, 여전히 스마트폰이 가지는 낮은 하드웨어 성능과 제한적인 배터리용량은 PC 환경을 대체하기가 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 클라우드가 가지는 서버 환경을 통해서 모바일 디바이스의 특정 태스크를 서버 사이드로 오프로딩 하여 실행하고, 단말은 그 결과만 전달받는 방식의 모바일 오프로딩 시스템을 제안한다. 실험을 통해서 모바일 오프로딩의 방법이 어플리케이션의 응답성을 높일 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 제시된 오프로딩 기법을 통해서 단말의 CPU utilization을 줄이고, 따라서 단말의 소모전력을 최대 70%까지 줄일 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.52-55
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• 2022

5G 시대에 스마트 모바일 기기가 기하급수적으로 증가하면서 멀티 액세스 엣지 컴퓨팅(MEC)이 유망한 기술로 부상했다. 낮은 지연시간 안에 계산 집약적인 서비스를 제공하기 위해 MEC 서버로 오프로딩하는 특히, 태스크 도착률과 무선 채널의 상태가 확률적인 MEC 시스템 환경에서의 오프로딩 연구가 주목받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 차량의 전력과 지연시간을 최소화하기 위해 로컬 실행을 위한 연산 자원과 오프로딩을 위한 전송 전력을 할당하는 심층 강화학습 기반의 오프로딩 기법을 제안하였다. Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) 기반 기법과 Deep Q-network (DQN) 기반 기법을 차량의 전력 소비량과 큐잉 지연시간 측면에서 성능을 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2017

Innovations from current researches on cloud computing such as applying bio-inspired computing techniques have brought new level solutions in offloading mechanisms. With the growing trend of mobile devices, mobile cloud computing can also benefit from applying bio-inspired techniques. Energy-efficient offloading mechanisms on mobile cloud systems are needed to reduce the total energy consumption but previous works did not consider energy consumption in the decision-making of task distribution. This paper proposes the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) as an offloading strategy of cloudlet to data centers where each task is represented as a particle during the process. The collected tasks are classified using K-means clustering on the cloudlet before applying PSO in order to minimize the number of particles and to locate the best data center for a specific task, instead of considering all tasks during the PSO process. Simulation results show that the proposed PSO excels in choosing data centers with respect to energy consumption, while it has accumulated a little more processing time compared to the other approaches.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.61-67
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• 2023

The rise of 5G and the proliferation of smart devices have underscored the significance of multi-access edge computing (MEC). Amidst this trend, interest in effectively processing computation-intensive and latency-sensitive applications has increased. This study investigated a novel task offloading strategy considering the probabilistic MEC environment to address these challenges. Initially, we considered the frequency of dynamic task requests and the unstable conditions of wireless channels to propose a method for minimizing vehicle power consumption and latency. Subsequently, our research delved into a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based offloading technique, offering a way to achieve equilibrium between local computation and offloading transmission power. We analyzed the power consumption and queuing latency of vehicles using the deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) and deep Q-network (DQN) techniques. Finally, we derived and validated the optimal performance enhancement strategy in a vehicle based MEC environment.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.437-444
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• 2022

Recently, research on mobile edge services has been conducted to handle computationally intensive and latency-sensitive tasks occurring in wireless networks. However, MEC, which is fixed on the ground, cannot flexibly cope with situations where task processing requests increase sharply, such as commuting time. To solve this problem, a technology that provides edge services using UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) has emerged. Unlike ground MEC servers, UAVs have limited battery capacity, so it is necessary to optimize energy efficiency through load balancing between UAV MEC servers. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a load balancing technique with consideration of the energy state of UAVs and the mobility of vehicles. The proposed technique is composed of task offloading scheme using genetic algorithm and task migration scheme using Q-learning. To evaluate the performance of the proposed technique, experiments were conducted with varying mobility speed and number of vehicles, and performance was analyzed in terms of load variance, energy consumption, communication overhead, and delay constraint satisfaction rate.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.291-296
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• 2021

The development of the Internet of Things(IoT) requires large computational resources for tasks from numerous devices. Mobile Edge Computing(MEC) has attracted a lot of attention in the IoT environment because it provides computational resources geographically close to the devices. Task offloading to MEC servers is efficient for devices with limited battery life and computational capability. In this paper, we assumed an industrial IoT environment requiring high reliability. The complexity of optimization problem in industrial IoT environment with many devices and multiple MEC servers is very high. To solve this problem, the problem is divided into two. After selecting the MEC server considering the queue status of the MEC server, we propose an offloading decision algorithm that optimizes reliability and energy consumption using genetic algorithm. Through experiments, we analyze the performance of the proposed algorithm in terms of energy consumption and reliability.