IIT Patna Offers 8-Week Free Online Course on Edge Computing for Students

IIT Patna is currently offering a free online course on edge computing for students and all interested participants on the SWAYAM NPTEL platform. The course will provide participants an understanding of edge computing and its applications in low latency and critical real-time computing scenarios. In addition to that, the course aims at viewing edge computing as a complementary approach that addresses some of the limitations of cloud computing.

The course will be conducted by Patna Dr. Rajiv Misra who is currently  working in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. He has published more than 70 papers in high quality journals and conferences, and 2 book chapters. His h-index is 10 with more than 590 citations. He has authored papers in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, Adhoc Networks, Computer Network, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, says the NPTEL website.

What the IIT Patna Free Online Course on Edge Computing Will Cover?

The course will provide participants with an in-depth understanding of edge computing principles with different use case of edge computing, along with knowledge on various innovations of waves from cloud computing to edge computing. Some of the topics that will be covered are as follows:

• Introduction to cloud and its limitations to support low latency and RTT.
• Introduction to edge computing architectures.
• Edge computing to support user applications.
• Concepts of distributed systems in edge computing such as time ordering and clock synchronization, and distributed snapshot among others.
• Use cases of machine learning for edge sensor data in predictive maintenance, image classifier and self-driving cars.
• Deep Learning On-Device inference at the edge to support latency-based application.

Important Details of the IIT Patna Free Online Course on Edge Computing

Those who wish to enrol for the course need to keep the following important details in mind:

• Students will have to register and enrol on the official website before 29 January 2024.
• The course will be conducted from 22 January to 16 February 2024.
• Undergraduate and postgraduate students who are pursuing computer science and engineering are most likely to benefit from this course.
• The course also carries two credit points for the benefit of students.