Optimizing the Learning Performance in Mobile Augmented Reality Systems With CNN

Abstract

It is an essential goal for future wireless networks to provide better artificial intelligent services. In this paper, we investigate the joint communication and computation resource optimization in the mobile edge learning system to support augmented reality applications, where the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are deployed at the edge server. For such a system, we first develop a delay model to characterize the relation between the computation latency and the input image size of general CNN models. Then, we formulate a mixed integer nonlinear optimization problem to maximize the system computation capacity under the constraints of learning accuracy, end-to-end latency, and energy consumption. To solve this problem, we first investigate maximizing the system learning accuracy under the communication and computation resource constraints. The optimal resource allocation policy can be achieved by a low-complexity search algorithm. We further prove that the original problem is NP-hard and propose an efficient heuristic algorithm with a newly-developed offloading priority function. An upper bound for the proposed algorithm is also derived. Finally, test results validate the applicability of the delay model and demonstrate the performance improvement of the proposed algorithm as compared with the existing algorithms.