Meeting Notes Rolling Log

27/1/2021

Applications for the edge:

• Machine learning (object detection, face recognition etc)
• Federated learning
• Simple linear algebra kernels / benchmarks
• More: Stream analysis, video analytics, genome sequencing, online gaming

What hardware / infrastructure is needed:

• Raspberry Pi as a general purpose edge node
• Need to simulate network traffic to the DAS (4g/5g simulation)
• Need to throttle the Raspberry Pi, to simulate slower IoT hardware
• How to accurately measure energy usage of these devices?

Tools:

• Important to invest in tools for evaluation of all future edge papers
• Can be anything: Network (traffic shaping), infrastructure, applications, emulators etc.
• Make a list on github with the state-of-the-practice on edge computing
• Scan evaluation section of edge computing paper

Paper ideas:

• Benchmarking at the edge
  • Spec group worked on creating such a benchmark, but it was dropped due to there not being enough interested people
  • Do work in our current group for a few months, then maybe organize a workshop to bring in more people to this research area
  • Take a look at cloud benchmarks: How can we transfer it to the edge. Holistic overview: Only reporting energy usage or performance won't help, need to combine metrics to create a clear picture.
• Reference architecture for edge RM&S (Matthijs)
• Evaluating consistency protocols based on latency of used technology (Giulia)

Next meeting:

• Pick an edge application, research what kind of infrastructure / tools are needed to deploy this application, and deploy it. What part of it is edge specific compared to normal cloud solutions? ** Machine learning, stateless (Matthijs) ** Federated learning, self-driving cars, stateful (Giulia)
• Paper plan: What is the story, give a small pitch (+ write a paper introduction)

21/1/2021

• Finish github wiki setup
• Paper planning for 2021

13/1/2021

• What kind of paper do you want to write this year? Which venue?
• Setup Github organization + logo

Next meeting:

• What applications do we want to focus on?
• What hardware / infrastructure do we need?