Intelligent Network Management for Heterogeneous Services in Mobile Edge Computing

The proliferation of connected devices creates various use cases and heterogeneous services, e.g., augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), and mobile artificial intelligence. These services and use cases have diverse networking and performance requirements such as throughput and delay, which challenge the "one-fit-all" service architecture in current networks. In this research, an intelligent network management framework in mobile edge computing is explored. The primary challenges lie in the unique characteristics of heterogeneous services and complicated correlations between network management on multiple technical domains and high-dimension performance requirements in the complex mobile networks. This research addresses these challenges with two different management approaches. From the perspective of service providers, multiple mobile systems are designed to allow service adaptation under complex network dynamics, e.g., channel variation and traffic workload, which dynamically and adaptively adjust resource allocations and system configurations by exploiting the unique characteristics of individual services. From the perspective of infrastructure providers, multiple network systems are proposed to enable orchestration intelligence without accurate performance modelings of services, which automatically learn to orchestrate multiple domain network resources for supporting various services by exploiting advanced machine learning techniques.