Risk-Budgeted Online Scheduling for Continuous Edge Inference over Evolving Time Horizons

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Main Authors: Qi, Houyi, Liwang, Minghui, Zou, Sai, Ni, Wei
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author Qi, Houyi
Liwang, Minghui
Zou, Sai
Ni, Wei
author_facet Qi, Houyi
Liwang, Minghui
Zou, Sai
Ni, Wei
contents Continuous edge inference necessitates not merely low per-timeslot latency, but sustained timeliness guarantees in the presence of time-varying channels, fluctuating edge workloads, and coupled bandwidth-computing resource constraints. Existing studies predominantly optimize instantaneous delay or per-timeslot utility, while largely overlooking the regulation of cross-time deadline violation dynamics in continuous services. To address this, we propose AEGIS, a prediction-empowered risk-budgeted online scheduling framework for continuous edge inference. AEGIS models deadline-violation tendency as an updatable cross-time control state through dynamic user-level risk budgets, so that online scheduling accounts for both instantaneous efficiency and long-term service stability. To support proactive decision making, AEGIS leverages LSTM-based short-term state prediction to construct a smooth deadline-violation risk surrogate, and formulates the resulting time-wise resource competition as a potential-aligned game under coupled feasibility constraints. An asynchronous online algorithm is then developed with finite-step convergence. Experiments demonstrate that AEGIS improves the timely inference ratio, reduces average violation risk and violation burst length, and achieves a favorable delay--risk--convergence trade-off over representative baselines.
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spellingShingle Risk-Budgeted Online Scheduling for Continuous Edge Inference over Evolving Time Horizons
Qi, Houyi
Liwang, Minghui
Zou, Sai
Ni, Wei
Networking and Internet Architecture
Continuous edge inference necessitates not merely low per-timeslot latency, but sustained timeliness guarantees in the presence of time-varying channels, fluctuating edge workloads, and coupled bandwidth-computing resource constraints. Existing studies predominantly optimize instantaneous delay or per-timeslot utility, while largely overlooking the regulation of cross-time deadline violation dynamics in continuous services. To address this, we propose AEGIS, a prediction-empowered risk-budgeted online scheduling framework for continuous edge inference. AEGIS models deadline-violation tendency as an updatable cross-time control state through dynamic user-level risk budgets, so that online scheduling accounts for both instantaneous efficiency and long-term service stability. To support proactive decision making, AEGIS leverages LSTM-based short-term state prediction to construct a smooth deadline-violation risk surrogate, and formulates the resulting time-wise resource competition as a potential-aligned game under coupled feasibility constraints. An asynchronous online algorithm is then developed with finite-step convergence. Experiments demonstrate that AEGIS improves the timely inference ratio, reduces average violation risk and violation burst length, and achieves a favorable delay--risk--convergence trade-off over representative baselines.
title Risk-Budgeted Online Scheduling for Continuous Edge Inference over Evolving Time Horizons
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02179