(Com)<sup>2</sup>Net: A Novel Communication and Computation Integrated Network Architecture
Weiting Zhang, Dong Yang, Chuan Zhang, Qiang Ye, Hongke Zhang, Xuemin Shen
Abstract
With the wide deployment of computing capabilities and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, Internet of intelligence is envisioned as a natural tendency in future networks. This technological revolution will foster abundant computing services with new requirements, such as distributed large AI model training and on-the-fly image rendering, which require dynamic collaboration of multi-dimensional resources from both the communication and computation perspectives. In this article, we introduce a communication and computation integrated network architecture, named (Com) <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> Net. Enormous computing traffic can be scheduled across space-air-ground domain, end-edge-cloud domain, and multi-data center domain, which facilitates ubiquitous connectivity and collaborative computation, thus supporting diverse advanced computing services. Furthermore, an intelligent resource adaption scheme is proposed to dynamically orchestrate multi-dimensional resources for massive concurrent computing tasks, in which quantum genetic algorithms are utilized to make the best joint decision for inter-domain traffic scheduling and intra-domain resource allocation. Finally, we present a case study, and discuss open research issues that are fundamental for efficient collaborative computation in (Com) <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> Net.