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Anderson Queiroz

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A 5G-Edge Architecture for Computational Offloading of Computer Vision Applications

Processing computer vision applications (CVA) on mobile devices is challenging due to limited battery life and computing power. While cloud-based remote processing of CVA offers abundant computational resources, it introduces latency issues that can hinder real-time applications. To overcome this problem, computational offloading to edge servers has been adopted by industry and academic research. Furthermore, 5G access can also benefit CVA with lower latency and higher bandwidth than previous cellular generations. As the number of Mobile Operators and Internet Service providers relying on 5G access is growing, it is of paramount importance to elaborate a solution for supporting real time applications with the assistance of the edge computing. Besides that, open-source based platforms for Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and 5G core can be deployed to rapid prototyping and testing applications. This paper aims at providing an end-to-end solution of open-source MEC and 5G Core platforms along with a commercial 5G Radio. We first conceived a 5G-edge computing environment to assist near to user processing of computer vision applications. Then a sentiment analysis application is developed and integrated to the proposed 5G-Edge architecture. Finally, we conducted a performance evaluation of the proposed solution and compare it against a remote cloud-based approach in order to highlight the benefits of our proposal. The proposed architecture achieved a 260\% throughput performance increase and reduced response time by 71.3\% compared to the remote-cloud-based offloading.

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Acoustic Disturbance Sensing Level Detection for ASD Diagnosis and Intelligibility Enhancement

The acoustic sensitivity of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) individuals highly impacts their intelligibility in noisy urban environments. In this Letter, the disturbance sensing level is examined with perceptual listening tests that demonstrate the impact of their append High Internal Noise (HIN) profile on intelligibility. This particular sensing level is then proposed as additional aid to ASD diagnosis. In this Letter, a novel intelligibility enhancement scheme is also introduced for ASD particular circumstances. For this proposal, harmonic features estimated from speech signal frames are considered as center frequencies of auditory filterbanks. A gain factor is further applied to the output of the filtered samples. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposal improved the acoustic intelligibility of ASD and Neurotypicals (NT) people considering four acoustic noises at different signal-to-noise ratios.

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A Survey on Blockchain and Edge Computing applied to the Internet of Vehicles

With the advent of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), data from diverse sensors either embedded into the vehicles or present along with the smart city infrastructure, are of utmost importance and require both processing power and efficient trust mechanisms for information exchange in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. To accomplish these requirements, both edge computing and blockchain have been recently adopted towards a secure, distributed, and computation empowered Internet of Vehicles (IoV). This paper surveys prominent solutions for blockchain-based vehicular edge computing (VEC), provides a taxonomy, highlights their main features, advantages, and limitations to provide subsidies for further proposals.

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