Edge Computing Systems

About this book

  • Preface
  • About this web edition

Part I. Applications, Devices, Communication, and Digital Twins

  • Chapter 1. Introduction to Edge Computing
  • Chapter 2. An Agentic IoT Application at the Edge
  • Chapter 3. IoT Devices and Sensing Systems
  • Chapter 4. Communication and Networking for IoT and Edge Systems

Part II. Building and Operating Edge Systems

  • Chapter 5. Running and Deploying Applications on Edge Nodes
  • Chapter 6. Scaling Edge Applications and Elastic Execution
  • Chapter 7. Computation Offloading and Device–Edge–Cloud Collaboration
  • Chapter 8. Scheduling and Optimizing Edge Systems
  • Chapter 9. Commercial Edge Platforms: From Mechanisms to Deployment

Part III. Edge AI

  • Chapter 10. Running and Optimizing AI on Edge Devices
  • Chapter 11. Collaborative Edge Intelligence: From Perception Models to Language Models
  • Chapter 12. Agentic AI and Tool-Driven Applications at the Edge

Part IV. Security and Multi-Party Trust

  • Chapter 13. Security, Privacy, and Safety in Edge Systems
  • Chapter 14. Multi-Party Trust, Blockchains, and Distributed Ledgers

Appendices and references

  • Appendix A. Laboratory and Project Guide
  • Appendix B. Optional Extension: Learning and Adaptation Across Devices
  • Appendix C. Selected Exercise Solutions
  • Appendix D. Glossary and Notation
  • Appendix E. Evidence and Reproducibility
  • References
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