Intelligent Resource Scheduling in End-Edge-Cloud Networks

This book investigates technologies that enable more powerful resources and improve resource utilization for end-edge-cloud networks. The authors cover tools such as federated learning (FL) and real-time inference in industrial IoT and they present a novel communication and computation integration architecture for end-edge-cloud networks. Under the considered end-edge-cloud network architecture, the authors then propose different resource scheduling schemes based on centralized and distributed deep reinforcement learning methods to improve overall resource utilization for guaranteeing the diversified quality of service (QoS) requirements from different applications. The proposed architecture and schemes can not only be adopted in future end-edge-cloud networks to efficiently manage the multi-dimensional resources in real time, but also provide useful guidelines for multi-dimensional resource scheduling scheme designing and resource utilization enhancement in complex end-edge-cloud networks with diversified data services and applications.

Professor Zhang Weiting earned the Ph.D. degree in Communication and Information Systems with the Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2021. From Nov. 2019 to Nov. 2020, he was a visiting Ph.D student with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. Starting from Dec. 2021, he works as an associate professor with the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University. His research interests include industrial Internet of Things, deterministic network, smart computing integration network, and machine learning for network optimization. In the related areas, he has published over 60 journal and conference papers and over 20 granted patents. He is serving as an associate editor for Wireless Networks; and a Guest Editor of several international journals, such as Electronics and Sensors. He also served as TPC co-chair, workshop chair, session chair, publicity co-chair, and TPC members for many international conferences, including IEEE Globecom 2023, IEEE INFOCOM 2022, IEEE ICC 2022, IEEE ICDCS 2022, IEEE iThings 2023, BIGCOM 2022, and IEEE HPCC 2021 conferences. He received 5 Best Paper Awards from IEEE ICC in 2024, IEEE INFOCOM WSH in 2024, ACM SIGCOMM China in 2023, IEEE ICCSN in 2023, and NaNA in 2023, respectively, and one Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE EUC in 2022.

Professor Yang Dong received the Ph.D. in the School of Electronics and Information Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, China, in 2008. From 2009 to 2010, he collaborated with ABB Corporate Research on industrial wireless networks when he worked as a post doctor in Jönköping University, Sweden. He is currently a full professor and the director of Intelligent Industry Network Research Institute at Beijing Jiaotong University, and a part-time researcher at Pengcheng National Laboratory. His current research interests focus on network architecture, Industrial Internet of Things and AI-driven network resource management. He holds more than 30 granted invention patents including two US Patents. He has authored or co-authored over 60 scientific publications in the field of network and communication technology. He was the recipient of several awards, including 2014 National Technology Invention Awards of China, 2017 National Technology Invention Awards of China, 2019 National High-level Talents Special Support Plan of China, China Patent Excellence Award, etc. He has served as the Guest editor for IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, and has been serving as the IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing and Executive Editor for Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Wiley).

Professor Zhang Hongke (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Communication Systems from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. From 1992 to 1994, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, where he is currently a Professor with the School of Electronic and Information Engineering and the Director of the National Engineering Lab on Next Generation Internet Technologies. His research has resulted in many papers, books, patents, systems, and equipment in the areas of communications and computer networks. He is the author of more than ten books and the holder of more than 70 patents. Dr. Zhang is the Chief Scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) and has also served on the editorial boards of several international journals.

Professor Shen Xuemin (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in 1990. He is currently a University Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on network resource management, wireless network security, Internet of Things, 5G and beyond, and vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. He is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada, an Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow, a Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, a Royal Society of Canada Fellow, a Chinese Academy of Engineering Foreign Fellow, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and Communications Society. Dr. Shen received the 2021 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research, the R.A. Fessenden Award in 2019 from IEEE, Canada, James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2018 from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and Joseph LoCicero Award in 2015 and Education Award in 2017 from the IEEE Communications Society. He has also received the Excellent Graduate Supervision Award in 2006 and Outstanding Performance Award 5 times from the University of Waterloo and the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) in 2003 from the Province of Ontario, Canada. He served as the Technical Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair for the IEEE Globecom'16, the IEEE Infocom'14, the IEEE VTC'10 Fall, the IEEE Globecom'07, the Symposia Chair for the IEEE ICC'10, the Tutorial Chair for the IEEE VTC'11 Spring, and the Chair for the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Wireless Communications. Dr. Shen is the elected IEEE Communications Society Vice President for Technical and Educational Activities, Vice President for Publications, Member-at-Large on the Board of Governors, Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee, Member of IEEE Fellow Selection Committee. He was/is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, IEEE Network, IET Communications, and Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications.