6G EdgeAI: Performance Evaluation and Analysis

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Main Authors: Yang, Chien-Sheng, Ku, Yu-Jen, Lou, Yuan-Yao, Tenny, Nathan, Hsu, Alex C. -C.
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author Yang, Chien-Sheng
Ku, Yu-Jen
Lou, Yuan-Yao
Tenny, Nathan
Hsu, Alex C. -C.
author_facet Yang, Chien-Sheng
Ku, Yu-Jen
Lou, Yuan-Yao
Tenny, Nathan
Hsu, Alex C. -C.
contents Generative AI (GenAI) services powered by large language models (LLMs) increasingly deliver real-time interactions, yet existing 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC) architectures often treat communication and computing as separate domains, limiting their ability to meet stringent latency requirements. To address this challenge, we introduce an Integrated Communication and Computing (ICC) framework where computing capabilities are enabled to reside directly in radio access network (RAN) nodes and jointly manage bandwidth and computing resources. Our queueing-theoretic analysis shows that ICC outperforms 5G MEC, achieving higher service capacity (defined as the maximum arrival rate that maintains a specified fraction of jobs completed within a given delay budget) by 98%. We corroborate these gains through system-level simulations that account for transformer-based LLM workloads, realistic GPU specifications, and a priority-based scheduling scheme. The simulations show that ICC improves service capacity by 60%, demonstrating its potential to enable efficient, cost-effective real-time GenAI services in 6G.
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spellingShingle 6G EdgeAI: Performance Evaluation and Analysis
Yang, Chien-Sheng
Ku, Yu-Jen
Lou, Yuan-Yao
Tenny, Nathan
Hsu, Alex C. -C.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Generative AI (GenAI) services powered by large language models (LLMs) increasingly deliver real-time interactions, yet existing 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC) architectures often treat communication and computing as separate domains, limiting their ability to meet stringent latency requirements. To address this challenge, we introduce an Integrated Communication and Computing (ICC) framework where computing capabilities are enabled to reside directly in radio access network (RAN) nodes and jointly manage bandwidth and computing resources. Our queueing-theoretic analysis shows that ICC outperforms 5G MEC, achieving higher service capacity (defined as the maximum arrival rate that maintains a specified fraction of jobs completed within a given delay budget) by 98%. We corroborate these gains through system-level simulations that account for transformer-based LLM workloads, realistic GPU specifications, and a priority-based scheduling scheme. The simulations show that ICC improves service capacity by 60%, demonstrating its potential to enable efficient, cost-effective real-time GenAI services in 6G.
title 6G EdgeAI: Performance Evaluation and Analysis
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16529