Edge Artificial Intelligence for 6G: Vision, Enabling Technologies, and Applications
The thriving of artificial intelligence (AI) applications is driving the
further evolution of wireless networks. It has been envisioned that 6G will be
transformative and will revolutionize the evolution of wireless from "connected
things" to "connected intelligence". However, state-of-the-art deep learning
and big data analytics based AI systems require tremendous computation and
communication resources, causing significant latency, energy consumption,
network congestion, and privacy leakage in both of the training and inference
processes. By embedding model training and inference capabilities into the
network edge, edge AI stands out as a disruptive technology for 6G to
seamlessly integrate sensing, communication, computation, and intelligence,
thereby improving the efficiency, effectiveness, privacy, and security of 6G
networks. In this paper, we shall provide our vision for scalable and
trustworthy edge AI systems with integrated design of wireless communication
strategies and decentralized machine learning models. New design principles of
wireless networks, service-driven resource allocation optimization methods, as
well as a holistic end-to-end system architecture to support edge AI will be
described. Standardization, software and hardware platforms, and application
scenarios are also discussed to facilitate the industrialization and
commercialization of edge AI systems.
Authors
Khaled B. Letaief, Yuanming Shi, Jianmin Lu, Jianhua Lu