Edge Computing Systems / Spring 2026

Updates

Upcoming or Active Project: P00 - Gridiron Group Project
- ~~Gridiron Milestone 1: Prototype Due — March 17, 2026 @ 11:59PM~~
- ~~Gridiron Milestone 2: Field Test Material Due Slides and Report — April 13, 2026 @ 11:59PM~~
- Gridiron Report, Code and Slides Material Due — May 04, 2026 @ 11:59PM

Course Description

Edge computing brings computation out of the cloud and onto small, distributed devices located where data is generated, enabling latency-sensitive, privacy-aware, and resilient systems across applications such as smart cities, environmental monitoring, and scientific instrumentation. Students design and implement full-edge pipelines that integrate embedded processors, sensors, communication protocols, and on-device machine learning; whereas cloud computing focuses on elastic resources and HPC emphasizes centralized performance at scale, edge systems require localized decision-making under strict power, bandwidth, and size constraints.

Time: Tuesday and Thursday 02:00pm - 03:15pm
Location: CDRLC 1406

Instructors

Michael E. Papka

Office Hours:	T 03:30 - 04:30 CDRLC 5407
	Th 12:30 - 01:30 CDRLC 5407
	By appointment

Teaching Assistants

Zhong Zheng

Office Hours:	M 10:30 - 02:00 ERF 2070
	W 10:30 - 02:00 ERF 2070
	F 9:00 - 10:30 TA Space
	F 12:00 - 02:00 TA Space
	By appointment