Bachelor and Master Theses

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Title: Real-time Application Offloading to Edge over 5G
Subject: Computer science, Embedded systems, Computer network engineering
Level: Advanced
Description:

Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm where the execution environment is closer to the location of the data source compared to traditional cloud computing paradigm. Therefore, it is more promising to be used for time-critical applications. Edge computing also enables offloading of certain functionality from the source-constrained device to edge. Offloading provides many benefits including extension of capability, reduced power, cost reduction, etc.

Application offloading from devices to the edge computing can be done during run-time of the system. However, still the challenge is whether a real-time application with short response time can be executed on the edge. This thesis seeks to find an answer to the question of if it is possible to control a system with short response time (and frequent sampling rate) over the edge where the edge is connected to the device over 5G. In order to find the answer, the following steps should be taken by the students:

 

1-     Study literature to find analytical and experimental analysis of similar applications.

2-    Setup a scenario in which an edge device controls an inverted pendulum over 5G.

3-    Perform a set of experiment to test the hypothesis.

 The work will be in collaboration with Ericsson Kista and the students may need to have several visits to Ericsson Kista.

 
Start date: 2024-01-10
End date: 2024-06-30
Prerequisites:

Possible for 2 students with good knowledge in embedded real-time systems, computer networks, C language
IDT supervisors: Mohammad Ashjaei
Examiner: Mohammad Ashjaei
Comments:
Company contact:

Ericsson will be involved in the thesis project.