Electronics Weekly
Dr Blesson Varghese, Lecturer in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is leading the project. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) at Queen’s.
“Currently, processing of all data we generate usually happens on geographically distant clouds,” said Varghese. “As billions of devices are getting connected to the Internet, we need more sustainable and scalable architectures for computing. They must not solely rely on distant centralised clouds.”
“Edge computing will bring certain services of applications closer to the users on the edge of the network. This will make applications more responsive, reduces bandwidth demand in the network core.”
It is intended that a team of PhD students and a post-doctoral researcher will research and develop the underlying approaches for safely delivering edge services. This will include efficiently managing the end-to-end activities of an application, and continuously monitoring the infrastructure to allow an application to adapt to changes.
“Rakuten Mobile aims to be the most technologically advanced telecommunications provider in the world,” said Dr Pierre Imai, Head of Research and Innovation at Rakuten Mobile. “To achieve this, we have established a new lab to make a truly autonomous network a reality.”
“Through our collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast, we have the opportunity to work with leading researchers in the edge computing field, and the results should allow us to provide a better service and a greater level of convenience to our customers.”
Image (l-r): Stephen McCabe, Business Alliance Manager at Queen’s University Belfast; Professor Karen Rafferty, Head of the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast; Dr Blesson Varghese, Lecturer in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) at Queen’s; and Stuart Campbell, Business Development Manager at the Centre for Data Science and Scalable Computing at ECIT.
