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Lena Mashayekhy

University of Delaware, DE·Computer Science·Early-career

Smart devices such as sensors, phones, and vehicles, together called the Internet of Things (IoT), generate huge amounts of data. Much of it must be processed quickly.

Fields

Computer Science

Engineering

Topics

edge computing

Internet of Things

IoT

Grants
1 known grant, through Apr 2027

What they work on

  1. Develop a data-driven method to find mobility patterns of Internet of Things devices that lead to quality-of-service violations in multiaccess edge computing systems.
  2. Design proactive task offloading and service placement by combining community detection, which finds groups of linked devices, with multidimensional network flow modeling.
  3. Build a learning-based approach that acts on its own when system changes threaten service quality, and optimize where mobile edge servers are placed and moved.
  4. Design a reverse auction and a two-sided mechanism that encourage location-flexible devices and edge servers to move, balancing load and improving response time.

More about the research

Multiaccess edge computing (MEC) lets these devices hand off heavy, time-critical computing jobs to nearby edge servers rather than distant data centers. But users and devices move, which makes demand hard to predict across space and time. This movement makes it difficult to guarantee quality of service (QoS), meaning reliable speed and performance.

Why it matters

Mobile apps and IoT systems that need real-time responses could run faster and more reliably if edge computing systems anticipate where users and devices will move. Better use of mobile edge servers could reduce data movement and improve service for end users. This could enable applications that current systems cannot support.

Known grants

From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.

CAREER: Towards Proactive and Collaborative Mobility-Aware Edge Intelligence

NSF · May 2022 – Apr 2027

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The school

University of Delaware: 22 labs on PI Pages, $466M a year on research, 298 research doctorates a year.

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