Mobile edge computing is emerging as a new computing paradigm that provides enhanced experience to mobile users via low latency connections and augmented computation capacity. As the amount of user requests is time-varying, while the computation capacity of edge hosts is limited, the Cloud Assisted Mobile Edge (CAME) computing framework is introduced to improve the scalability of the edge platform. By outsourcing mobile requests to clouds with various types of instances, the CAME framework can accommodate dynamic mobile requests with diverse quality of service requirements. In order to provide guaranteed services at minimal system cost, the edge resource provisioning and cloud outsourcing of the CAME framework should be carefully designed in a cost-efficient manner. Specifically, two fundamental problems should be answered: (1) What is the optimal edge computation capacity configuration? (2) What types of cloud instances should be tenanted and what is the amount of each type? To solve these issues, we formulate the resource provisioning in CAME framework as an optimization problem. By exploiting the piecewise convex property of this problem, the Optimal Resource Provisioning (ORP) algorithms with different instances are developed, so as to optimize the computation capacity of edge hosts and meanwhile dynamically adjust the cloud tenancy strategy. The proposed algorithms are proved to be with polynomial computational complexity. To evaluate the performance of the ORP algorithms, extensive simulations and experiments are conducted based on both widely-used traffic models and Google cluster usage tracelogs, respectively. It is shown that the proposed ORP algorithms outperform the local-first and cloud-first benchmark algorithms in system flexibility and cost-efficiency.

Deploying large language models (LLMs) inference into mobile devices is cost-efficient for companies, and well addresses the privacy concern of users. However, the limited computation capacity and memory constraints of mobile devices hinder their practical deployment. Prior work strives to expand model size for better accuracy performance, while there is a lack of systematic understanding of "small" sub-10 billion LLMs that are already feasible for current commodity devices. To better reveal the current landscape of LLMs on mobile devices, we conducted a comprehensive measurement study, deploying 22 models across 4 mobile devices. Our measurements focus on accuracy, inference latency, and memory footprint across various input lengths, devices, and execution engines. The observations from the measurements point us toward promising directions for efficient LLM deployment on mobile devices.

This paper is concerned with the locally constrained ordered statistic decoding (LC-OSD) of binary linear block codes, which is a near maximum-likelihood decoding algorithm. Compared with the conventional OSD, the LC-OSD significantly reduces both the maximum and average number of searches. The former is achieved by performing the serial list Viterbi algorithm (SLVA) over a trellis for local constraints on the test error patterns, while the latter is achieved by incorporating tailored early termination criteria. The main objective of this paper is to explore the relationship between the performance of the LC-OSD and decoding parameters, such as the constraint degree and the maximum list size. To this end, we approximate the local parity-check matrix as a totally random matrix and then estimate the performance of the LC-OSD by analyzing the performance of random codes over the channels associated with the most reliable bits (MRBs). The random coding approach enables us to derive an upper bound on the performance and predict the average rank of the transmitted codeword in the list delivered by the LC-OSD. This allows us to balance the constraint degree and the maximum list size for the average (or maximum) time complexity reduction. Simulation results show that the approximation is numerically effective and the random coding approach is powerful. Simulation results also show that the LC-OSD is comparable to other existing decoding algorithms, including soft guessing random additive noise decoding (SGRAND), verifying the efficiency and universality of the LC-OSD.