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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,447 Views
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An Efficient IIoT Gateway for Cloud–Edge Collaboration in Cloud Manufacturing

  • Yi Zhang,
  • Dunbing Tang,
  • Haihua Zhu,
  • Shihui Zhou and
  • Zhen Zhao

23 September 2022

The cloud manufacturing system can provide consumers with on-demand manufacturing services, which significantly improve the utilization rate of distributed manufacturing resources and the response speed of personalized product needs. In the cloud man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,507 Views
16 Pages

14 November 2022

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) makes cities “smart”, capable of providing advanced municipal services to citizens more efficiently. In the literature, many applications of municipal service platform based on cloud computin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,822 Views
17 Pages

With the rapid popularization of current Internet of Things (IoT) technology and 5G networks, as well as the continuous updating of new service lifestyles and businesses, the era of big data processing for the IoT has arrived. However, centralizing a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
180 Views
22 Pages

Cloud-Edge Collaboration-Based Data Processing Method for Distribution Terminal Unit Edge Clusters

  • Ruijiang Zeng,
  • Zhiyong Li,
  • Sifeng Li,
  • Jiahao Zhang and
  • Xiaomei Chen

4 January 2026

Distribution terminal units (DTUs) play critical roles in smart grid for supporting data acquisition, remote monitoring, and fault management. A single DTU generates continuous data streams, imposing new challenges on data processing. To tackle these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,639 Views
16 Pages

28 January 2025

In recent years, the large-scale integration of new power distribution technologies such as distributed power generation, electric vehicles, and flexible load control has led to a sharp increase in the operating pressure of the power cloud master sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
292 Views
16 Pages

Research on Edge Feature Extraction Methods for Device Monitoring Based on Cloud–Edge Collaboration

  • Lei Chen,
  • Longxin Cui,
  • Dongliang Zou,
  • Yakun Wang,
  • Peiquan Wang and
  • Wenxuan Shi

21 December 2025

Enterprises in industries such as coking and metallurgy possess extensive industrial equipment requiring real-time monitoring and timely fault detection. Transmitting all monitoring data to servers or cloud platforms for processing presents challenge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,493 Views
14 Pages

2 April 2021

The development of multi-variety, mixed-flow manufacturing environments is hampered by a low degree of automation in information and empirical parameters’ reuse among similar processing technologies. This paper proposes a mechanism for knowledge shar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,167 Views
22 Pages

4 August 2022

To improve the response speed and quality of Internet of Things (IoT) services and reduce system operating costs, this paper refines the edge layer according to the different data transmission capabilities of different edge devices, constructs a four...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,060 Views
23 Pages

27 June 2023

In the digital economy era, cloud–edge collaboration technology provides the necessary technical support for the digital transformation of enterprises, which can improve the quality of services (QoS), and it attracts extensive attention from sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,172 Views
16 Pages

A Fault Diagnosis and Visualization Method for High-Speed Train Based on Edge and Cloud Collaboration

  • Kunlin Zhang,
  • Wei Huang,
  • Xiaoyu Hou,
  • Jihui Xu,
  • Ruidan Su and
  • Huaiyu Xu

29 January 2021

Safety is the most important aspect of railway transportation. To ensure the safety of high-speed trains, various train components are equipped with sensor devices for real-time monitoring. Sensor monitoring data can be used for fast intelligent diag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,084 Views
18 Pages

29 December 2023

With the continuous promotion of digital transformation in the field of power transformation, the diversification of application scenarios, and the scale of pilot construction, the real-time, concurrency, and security requirements for data fusion and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
14,529 Views
51 Pages

A Review on Federated Learning Architectures for Privacy-Preserving AI: Lightweight and Secure Cloud–Edge–End Collaboration

  • Shanhao Zhan,
  • Lianfen Huang,
  • Gaoyu Luo,
  • Shaolong Zheng,
  • Zhibin Gao and
  • Han-Chieh Chao

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling collaborative training of machine learning models while preserving data privacy. However, the massive heterogeneity of data and devices, communication constraints, and security...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,091 Views
18 Pages

A Cloud-Edge-End Collaboration Framework for Fixed-Time Distributed Optimization of Virtual Power Plants

  • Kai Kang,
  • Nian Shi,
  • Keqi Zhang,
  • Si Cai,
  • Liang Zhang,
  • Xinan Shao,
  • Lei Shu,
  • Renjie Hu and
  • Leimin Wang

4 June 2025

As the power grid expands, concerns about system computation speed and information privacy are becoming more critical. While distributed optimization methods protect individual privacy effectively, they struggle with computational efficiency in compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,093 Views
30 Pages

18 July 2025

Cloud–edge collaboration industrial control systems (ICSs) face critical security and privacy challenges that existing dynamic heterogeneous redundancy (DHR) architectures inadequately address due to two fundamental limitations: event-triggered...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,638 Views
30 Pages

21 August 2025

Driven by technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, smart buildings have developed rapidly, and the demand for processing massive amounts of data has risen sharply. Traditional cloud computing is confronted with challen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,435 Views
18 Pages

Visually impaired people face many inconveniences in daily life, and there are problems such as high prices and single functions in the market of assistance tools for visually impaired people. In this work, we designed and implemented a low-cost inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,427 Views
15 Pages

5 February 2022

With the rapid development of the internet of things, there are more and more end devices, such as wearable devices, USVs and intelligent automobiles, connected to the internet. These devices tend to require large amounts of computing resources with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
970 Views
23 Pages

23 September 2025

Current cloud–edge collaboration collaboration architectures face challenges in security resource scheduling due to their mostly static nature, which cannot keep up with real-time attack patterns and dynamic security needs. To address this, thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,856 Views
29 Pages

Edge–Cloud Collaboration-Based Plug and Play and Topology Identification for Microgrids: The Case of Jingshan Microgrid Project in Hubei, China

  • Zhichun Yang,
  • Ji Han,
  • Qihang Wang,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Yuting Deng,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Yang Lei,
  • Wei Hu and
  • Huaidong Min

1 September 2023

The rapid advancement of renewable energy technologies necessitates innovative solutions for the efficient deployment and management of microgrid systems. This paper presents a detailed study on the implementation of edge–cloud collaboration-ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
890 Views
22 Pages

24 February 2025

The rapid advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices has made location-based services (LBSs) increasingly prevalent, significantly improving daily convenience and work efficiency. However, this widespread usage has raised growing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,311 Views
20 Pages

Cloud–Edge Collaborative Inference with Network Pruning

  • Mingran Li,
  • Xuejun Zhang,
  • Jiasheng Guo and
  • Feng Li

25 August 2023

With the increase in model parameters, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in computer vision, but larger DNNs create a bottleneck for deploying DNNs on resource-constrained edge devices. The cloud–edge collaborativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,354 Views
28 Pages

4 September 2024

Obstacle avoidance in UAV swarms is crucial for ensuring the stability and safety of cluster flights. However, traditional methods of swarm obstacle avoidance often fail to meet the requirements of frequent spatiotemporal dynamic changes in UAV swarm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,568 Views
17 Pages

Cloud-Edge Collaborative Inference-Based Smart Detection Method for Small Objects

  • Cong Ye,
  • Shengkun Li,
  • Jianlei Wang,
  • Hongru Li,
  • Xiao Li and
  • Sujie Shao

24 September 2025

Emerging technologies are revolutionizing power system operation and maintenance. Intelligent state perception is pivotal for stable grid operation, with small object detection technology being vital for identifying minor hazards in power facilities....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,548 Views
22 Pages

Edge and Cloud Collaborative Entity Recommendation Method towards the IoT Search

  • Ruyan Wang,
  • Yuzhe Liu,
  • Puning Zhang,
  • Xuefang Li and
  • Xuyuan Kang

30 March 2020

There are massive entities with strong denaturation of state in the physical world, and users have urgent needs for real-time and intelligent acquisition of entity information, thus recommendation technologies that can actively provide instant and pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,215 Views
21 Pages

CE-RX: A Collaborative Cloud-Edge Anomaly Detection Approach for Hyperspectral Images

  • Yunchang Wang,
  • Jiang Cai,
  • Junlong Zhou,
  • Jin Sun,
  • Yang Xu,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Zhihui Wei,
  • Javier Plaza,
  • Antonio Plaza and
  • Zebin Wu

29 August 2023

Due to the constrained processing capabilities of real-time detection techniques in remote sensing applications, it is often difficult to obtain detection results with high accuracy in practice. To address this problem, we introduce a new real-time a...

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  • Open Access
1,243 Views
17 Pages

26 July 2025

With the rapid development of smart devices and the Internet of Things (IoT), the explosive growth of data has placed increasingly higher demands on real-time processing and intelligent decision making. Cloud-edge collaborative computing has emerged...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,917 Views
17 Pages

19 February 2025

As demand for high-capacity, low-latency communication rises, mmWave systems are essential for enabling ultra-high-speed transmission in fifth-generation mobile communication technology (5G) and upcoming 6G networks, especially in dynamic, data-scarc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,463 Views
15 Pages

Edge-Cloud Collaborative Defense against Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

  • Jie Yang,
  • Jun Zheng,
  • Haochen Wang,
  • Jiaxing Li,
  • Haipeng Sun,
  • Weifeng Han,
  • Nan Jiang and
  • Yu-An Tan

17 January 2023

Federated learning has a distributed collaborative training mode, widely used in IoT scenarios of edge computing intelligent services. However, federated learning is vulnerable to malicious attacks, mainly backdoor attacks. Once an edge node implemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,162 Views
21 Pages

30 September 2024

As industries develop and informatization accelerates, enterprise collaboration is increasing. However, current architectures face malicious attacks, data tampering, privacy issues, and security and efficiency problems in information exchange and ent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,447 Views
17 Pages

21 December 2024

In modern power systems, drones are increasingly being utilized to monitor the condition of critical power equipment. However, limited computing capacity is a key factor limiting the application of drones. To optimize the computational load on drones...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,859 Views
28 Pages

18 April 2024

The increasing penetration rate of distributed resources in the distribution network has brought about significant volatility and uncertainty problems. Demand response (DR) can flexibly change the energy consumption method of the user to balance supp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,628 Views
12 Pages

27 December 2022

Retinopathy of prematurity is an ophthalmic disease with a very high blindness rate. With its increasing incidence year by year, its timely diagnosis and treatment are of great significance. Due to the lack of timely and effective fundus screening fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,055 Views
20 Pages

2 September 2025

The emergence of mass personalized production has increased the adaptability and intelligence requirements of welding robots. To address the challenges associated with mass personalized production, this paper proposes a novel knowledge-driven framewo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,194 Views
32 Pages

Edge-cloud collaboration fully utilizes the advantages of sufficient computing resources in cloud computing and the low latency of edge computing and better meets the needs of various Internet of Things (IoT) application scenarios. An important resea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,023 Views
16 Pages

Novel Cloud-Edge Collaborative Detection Technique for Detecting Defects in PV Components, Based on Transfer Learning

  • Hongxi Wang,
  • Fei Li,
  • Wenhao Mo,
  • Peng Tao,
  • Hongtao Shen,
  • Yidi Wu,
  • Yushuai Zhang and
  • Fangming Deng

25 October 2022

The existing techniques for detecting defects in photovoltaic (PV) components have some drawbacks, such as few samples, low detection accuracy, and poor real-time performance. This paper presents a cloud-edge collaborative technique for detecting the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,067 Views
21 Pages

3 August 2025

In the 6G era, the proliferation of smart devices has led to explosive growth in data volume. The traditional cloud computing can no longer meet the demand for efficient processing of large amounts of data. Edge computing can solve the energy loss pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,250 Views
32 Pages

14 March 2024

Security assessment of ironmaking plants is one of the crucial means to promote their sustainable development. However, the disparate nature of subsystems within these plants, along with network inconsistencies and isolated data, obstruct a thorough...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,817 Views
18 Pages

12 September 2024

Defect detection constitutes one of the most crucial processes in industrial production. With a continuous increase in the number of defect categories and samples, the defect detection model underpinned by deep learning finds it challenging to expand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,616 Views
16 Pages

25 May 2025

The growing demand for efficient human action recognition has led to significant advancements in applications such as surveillance, healthcare, and human–computer interaction. This paper uses the Widar3.0 dataset to evaluate the proposed a clou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,525 Views
13 Pages

Accelerated Inference of Face Detection under Edge-Cloud Collaboration

  • Weiwei Zhang,
  • Hongbo Zhou,
  • Jian Mo,
  • Chenghui Zhen and
  • Ming Ji

24 August 2022

Model compression makes it possible to deploy face detection models on devices with limited computing resources. Edge–cloud collaborative inference, as a new paradigm of neural network inference, can significantly reduce neural network inferenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,639 Views
25 Pages

27 August 2024

Aiming at the problems of grinding wheel wear during high-speed cylindrical grinding, communication delays, and slow response during data acquisition, processing, and system operation, an intelligent online monitoring technology frame for CNC manufac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,554 Views
19 Pages

10 September 2022

Recent deep-learning methods for fault diagnosis of rolling bearings need a significant amount of computing time and resources. Most of them cannot meet the requirements of real-time fault diagnosis of rolling bearings under the cloud computing frame...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,360 Views
33 Pages

27 October 2022

In smart cities, the computing power and battery life of terminal devices (TDs) can be effectively enhanced by offloading tasks to nearby base stations (BSs) with richer resources. With the goal of TDs being fully served and achieving low-carbon ener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,483 Views
19 Pages

LFDC: Low-Energy Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Caching Mechanism in Cloud–Edge Collaborative

  • Xinyu Zhang,
  • Zhigang Hu,
  • Meiguang Zheng,
  • Yang Liang,
  • Hui Xiao,
  • Hao Zheng and
  • Aikun Xu

16 May 2023

The optimization of caching mechanisms has long been a crucial research focus in cloud–edge collaborative environments. Effective caching strategies can substantially enhance user experience quality in these settings. Deep reinforcement learnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,183 Views
23 Pages

With the continuous development of industrial intelligence, the integration of cyber–physical components creates a need for effective attack detection methods to mitigate potential DDoS threats. Although several DDoS attack detection modeling a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,231 Views
18 Pages

15 December 2023

Federated learning is a promising technique in cloud computing and edge computing environments, and designing a reasonable resource allocation scheme for federated learning is particularly important. In this paper, we propose an auction mechanism for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,581 Views
23 Pages

15 August 2024

In edge–cloud collaboration scenarios, data sharing is a critical technological tool, yet smart devices encounter significant challenges in ensuring data-sharing security. Attribute-based keyword search (ABKS) is employed in these contexts to f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,995 Views
20 Pages

10 July 2019

The edge platform has evolved to become a part of a distributed computing environment. While typical edges do not have enough processing power to train machine learning models in real time, it is common to generate models in the cloud for use on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,296 Views
14 Pages

1 April 2023

The power distribution network business gradually extends from the grid domain to the social service domain, and the new business keeps expanding. The edge device uses microservice architecture and container technology to realize the processing of di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
995 Views
29 Pages

Design and Implementation of a Novel Intelligent Remote Calibration System Based on Edge Intelligence

  • Quan Wang,
  • Jiliang Fu,
  • Xia Han,
  • Xiaodong Yin,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Xin Qi and
  • Xuerui Zhang

3 September 2025

Calibration of power equipment has become an essential task in modern power systems. This paper proposes a distributed remote calibration prototype based on a cloud–edge–end architecture by integrating intelligent sensing, Internet of Thi...

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