Journal
IEEE ACCESS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages 140199-140211Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3118731
Keywords
Image edge detection; Object detection; Servers; Wireless LAN; Deep learning; Performance evaluation; Edge computing; Deep learning offloading; object detection; wireless edge computing; resource optimization
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- Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) - Korean government [21ZK1100]
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In the last decade, deep neural network (DNN)-based object detection technologies have been recognized as a promising solution for image understanding and video analysis on mobile edge devices. However, executing computationally intensive DNN-based object detection workloads on these devices may not meet the accuracy and latency requirements due to limited computation capacity. A proposed offloading framework aims to improve object detection performance by offloading workloads to a remote edge server, but initial results show potential performance degradation in edge computing architectures.
In the last decade, deep neural network (DNN)-based object detection technologies have received significant attention as a promising solution to implement a variety of image understanding and video analysis applications on mobile edge devices. However, the execution of computationally intensive DNN-based object detection workloads in mobile edge devices is insufficient in fulfilling the object detection requirements with high accuracy and low latency, owing to the limited computation capacity. In this paper, we implement and evaluate a DNN-based object detection offloading framework to improve the object detection performance of mobile edge devices by offloading computation-intensive workloads to a remote edge server. However, preliminary experimental results have shown that offloading all object detection workloads of mobile edge devices may lead to worse performance than executing the workloads locally. This degradation is obtained from the inefficient resource utilization in the edge computing architectures, both for the edge server and mobile edge devices. To resolve the aforementioned problem with degradation, we devise a device-aware DNN offloading decision algorithm that is aimed to maximize resource utilization in the edge computing architecture. The proposed algorithm decides whether or not to offload the object detection workloads of edge devices by considering their computing power and network bandwidth, and therefore maximizing their average object detection processing frames per second. Through various experiments conducted in a real-life wireless local area network (WLAN) environment, we verified the effectiveness of the proposed DNN-based object detection offloading framework.
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