Professors of Tianjin University will share new research on edge computing at the WICC2021 "Lecture"

The third Global Internet Communication Cloud Conference (WICC 2021) hosted by Rongyun, a leading global Internet communication cloud manufacturer, will be held on July 24 at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Beijing.

If the conference itself is a heterogeneous solution that provides the industry with a "new vision and the future", then the summit forum, summit dialogue, technical sub-forums, and games and other exchanges and interaction links of the conference are multi-level structures, coming from different industries. The lecture topic of the lecturer is the edge node of the conference. By then, what "computing power" the lecturers will bring, and how "cloud-side collaboration" will occur between the conference and each link, are highlights that developers should not miss.

According to the latest exposure of the conference, in the "Network Transmission and System Architecture" technical sub-forum, Wang Xiaofei, a professor and doctoral supervisor from the Department of Intelligence and Computer Science of Tianjin University, and an outstanding talent in the National Overseas High-level Talent Introduction Program, will be a guest of academic circles and bring "5G Era Edge Intelligence and Cloud Edge Collaboration" cutting-edge scientific research sharing. As a senior scholar who studies edge intelligence theory, edge computing system architecture and cloud-side collaborative algorithms, the joining of Professor Wang Xiaofei will give participating developers the opportunity to have more in-depth exchanges on topics in this field.

The essence of edge computing is the infrastructure of computing power

In recent years, edge computing and cloud-side collaboration technologies have attracted much attention. Professor Wang Xiaofei believes that from the perspective of development level, domestic and foreign countries are in a trend of simultaneous development. In addition to the lack of hardware chips in China, our philosophy and technology in software, architecture, service models and other related fields are even better than those of foreign countries. Advanced, leading advantage comes from the huge domestic market and faster iteration speed.

The essence of edge computing is a ubiquitous multi-level, heterogeneous computing power infrastructure, which can connect all computing power devices connected to the world, from large data centers to small data centers, to servers and smart gateways. Finally, the terminals and sensors are all connected together to form the most basic computing power facility that supports the development of an intelligent society.

Therefore, the future development potential of edge computing is huge, and it will be more synergistic at the data level, network level, and computing level. Native killer applications based on the cloud-side collaboration architecture will also appear. At present, the edge computing seen by academia and industry is only the tip of the iceberg.

Edge computing scientific research sharing and industry landing

The edge computing world described by Professor Wang Xiaofei will undoubtedly make the participants extremely excited and expectant. He spoiled the content shared this time, mainly from the perspective of the network edge in the 5G era, describing the theoretical background supporting edge computing, discussing collaborative edge caching, The in-depth integration of edge computing, edge network and edge computing power sorts out the core issues, challenges and key technologies of edge intelligence.

As a new friend of WICC, Prof. Xiaofei Wang will stand on the “Pulpit” of WICC 2021 for the first time. His research results, such as the scheduling algorithm and optimization of resource utilization under cloud-side-end collaboration, as well as the price game and fairness and reliability research during collaboration, and finally using edge computing technology to greatly improve smart communities, smart security, and wisdom The intelligent processing capabilities in power grids and other fields will give the guests in the industry useful thinking and inspiration.

As a guest of academia, he emphasized that technological development has both scientific research challenges and industrial challenges, and the two need to be integrated and promoted, which has formed a strong dependence between enterprises and scientific research institutes. Although academic research is forward-looking and theoretically advanced and in-depth, to fully integrate with the industry, it is necessary to learn from industry dynamics and actively discuss the difficulties and challenges of cutting-edge technologies in the implementation of industry colleagues. This connection will enable scientific research to be successful. According to Kei, it is targeted.

Therefore, this is also the purpose of Professor Wang Xiaofei to participate in WICC 2021. He said frankly, “The WICC conference organized by Rongyun brings together elite talents and technical leaders from many industries, and provides an interactive platform for participants to meet new and old friends. The dimension of integration with the industry promotes the development of the industry in a deeper field."

In the future, edge computing will make communication ubiquitous and improve communication experience

Specifically in the field of communication cloud, Professor Wang Xiaofei's research results on edge computing can improve communication data transmission and optimize the network and service experience. For example, audio and video live broadcasting/calling services that have strong requirements for low latency, packet loss rate, bandwidth jitter, etc., can all be optimized through the joint optimization of the resources of the cloud data center and edge data clusters to improve user experience and services quality.

In the future, edge computing will make communication cloud capabilities ubiquitous. Because the future must be an integrated and ubiquitous communication cloud-side collaborative architecture. As the infrastructure of network services, intelligent transmission can aggregate all network nodes into a world-class large-scale hardware platform, forming the linkage of all computing power facilities. It runs various network services, computing services, and various intelligent applications.

Focusing on the PaaS level, Professor Wang Xiaofei pointed out, “PaaS is mainly the platform layer, which provides support for upper-layer applications. The future market is flooded with a large number of heterogeneous clients, with sufficient differentiated business scenarios and service requirements. For example, In business scenarios such as high-definition video, high-definition games, autonomous driving, and industrial Internet of Things, the underlying computing power infrastructure will also be extremely heterogeneous and fragmented. How to fully optimize and integrate resources, including various edge nodes, various small fragmentation The support provided by computing power equipment allows every user, channel and resource to receive the most optimized service quality assurance, which will be far more challenging than the existing cloud service model."

Concluding remarks

"Academic achievements need to be transformed into industrial applications, which requires dimensionality reduction. In academic research, in order to achieve the best computing power, very complex solutions are used to optimize parameters and constraints. However, in actual implementation, simple and crude algorithms are easier to use. Application.” This is Professor Wang Xiaofei’s biggest feeling when the front-end scientific research is transformed into industrial applications.

As a guest representative of the scientific research community, Professor Xiaofei Wang shared the theoretical breakthroughs and practical perceptions that will help the industry to open new horizons in practical applications. The new perspectives of the academic community that WICC 2021 will incorporate will also be expected by developers.