Control of offloading of calculation tasks in multi-access edge computing
AssigneeCommissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
InventorsEmilio Calvanese Strinati, Serge Bories
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Abstract
Method for offloading calculation tasks between a user terminal and an edge host device in a communication network according to a multi-access edge computing technique, including steps of: Offloading data necessary for the execution of the calculation from the user terminal to the edge host device, and Transmitting data resulting from the calculation carried out by the edge host device, from the edge host device to the user terminal, wherein the offloading of data is controlled on the basis of joint criteria of energy efficiency and of minimization of exposure of a user of the user terminal to electromagnetic fields.
Claims12
A method for offloading calculation tasks between a user terminal and an edge host device in a communication network according to a multi-access edge computing technique, including steps of:
- offloading data necessary for execution of the calculation from the user terminal to the edge host device, and
- transmitting data resulting from the calculation carried out by the edge host device, from the edge host device to the user terminal, the offloading of data being controlled on the basis of a criterion of energy efficiency,
- wherein the offloading of data is further controlled by a criterion of minimization of exposure of a user of the user terminal to electromagnetic fields, a value of exposure of the user to electromagnetic fields being calculated according to one or more of the following criteria:
- a measurement of momentary radiofrequency electromagnetic dosimetry or a cumulative dose over a time window,
- the exposure to electromagnetic fields on a basis of specific exposure maps, and
- a sum of exposure of the user or of an identified group of people to electromagnetic fields, this exposure being caused by the user terminal or by other sources of electromagnetic fields close to the user terminal.
A controller comprising one or more processing circuits and one or more communication resources, the one or more processing circuits configured for offloading of calculation tasks between a user terminal and an edge host device in a communication network according to a multi-access edge computing technique, the user terminal and the edge host device being configured to:
- offload data necessary for execution of the calculation from the user terminal to the edge host device, and
- transmit data resulting from the calculation carried out by the edge host device, from the edge host device to the user terminal,
- wherein the controller is configured to be connected to at least one of the edge host device and the user terminal and to control (a) offloading of data on a basis of a criterion of energy efficiency and (b) offloading of data on a basis of a criterion of minimization of exposure of a user of the user terminal to electromagnetic fields, a value of exposure of the user to electromagnetic fields being calculated according to one or more of the following criteria:
- a measurement of momentary radiofrequency electromagnetic dosimetry or a cumulative dose over a time window,
- the exposure to electromagnetic fields on a basis of specific exposure maps, and
- a sum of exposure of the user or of an identified group of people to electromagnetic fields, this exposure being caused by the user terminal or by other sources of electromagnetic fields close to the user terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.