Patent ID: 11916755
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to:
select at least one edge device from a plurality of edge devices within communication range of the electronic device to offload computations related to at least one deep neural network (DNN) layer of a plurality of DNN layers, wherein the plurality of edge devices are devices having a higher computing capability than the electronic device;
identify a network for connecting the electronic device with the selected at least one edge device;
determine a split ratio for splitting a computation task based on at least one of an inference time of a DNN and a transmission time required for transmitting output of each layer of the DNN from the electronic device to the selected at least one edge device;
split the plurality of layers of the DNN into a first part and a second part based on the determined split ratio; and
control a transceiver to transmit the second part to the selected at least one edge device through the network,
wherein computation task of the first part is executed on the electronic device and computation task of the second part is executed on the selected at least one edge device.