F3.6 Edge AI Model Inference - User Guide

F3.6 Edge AI Model Inference - User Guide

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Quick Start
3. ONNX Runtime Integration
4. TensorFlow Lite Support
5. Model Quantization
6. SQL Interface
7. Model Registry & Versioning
8. A/B Testing & Canary Deployments
9. Edge Deployment
10. Performance Optimization
11. Examples
12. Troubleshooting

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Overview

HeliosDB F3.6 Edge AI enables running ML models directly at database edge nodes with <10ms inference latency. This feature provides:

• Multiple Runtime Support: ONNX, TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch Mobile, Core ML
• Model Quantization: INT8, INT4, FP16 quantization for 3-5x compression
• SQL Interface: Run ML inference directly from SQL queries
• Edge Deployment: Distribute models across edge nodes with intelligent routing
• A/B Testing: Test multiple model versions in production
• Canary Deployments: Gradual rollout with automatic rollback

Key Benefits

• Ultra-Low Latency: <10ms inference time for edge models
• Scalability: Horizontal scaling across edge nodes
• Cost Efficiency: Reduce cloud API costs by 95%
• Data Privacy: Keep sensitive data on-premises
• Developer Friendly: SQL interface requires zero ML expertise

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Quick Start

Installation

Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
heliosdb-edge-ai = "6.0"

Basic Usage

use heliosdb_edge_ai::*;
use std::collections::HashMap;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<()> {
    // Create inference engine
    let config = InferenceEngineConfig::default();
    let engine = InferenceEngine::new(config);

    // Prepare inputs
    let mut inputs = HashMap::new();
    inputs.insert("input".to_string(), vec![0.5; 150528]); // 224x224x3

    // Run inference
    let request = InferenceRequest::new("mobilenet_v2".to_string(), inputs);
    let response = engine.infer(request).await?;

    println!("Inference latency: {}ms", response.latency_ms);
    println!("Predictions: {:?}", response.outputs);

    Ok(())
}

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ONNX Runtime Integration

Configuration

use heliosdb_edge_ai::*;

let config = OnnxRuntimeConfig {
    execution_provider: OnnxExecutionProvider::Cpu,
    num_threads: 8,
    enable_optimization: true,
    optimization_level: 3,
    enable_mem_pattern: true,
    enable_cpu_mem_arena: true,
};

let runtime = OnnxRuntime::new(config);

Loading Models

use std::path::PathBuf;

// Load from file
let session = runtime.load_model(
    "mobilenet_v2".to_string(),
    "v1.0".to_string(),
    PathBuf::from("/models/mobilenet_v2.onnx"),
)?;

// Load from bytes (e.g., from database)
let model_bytes = load_from_database("mobilenet_v2");
let session = runtime.load_model_from_bytes(
    "mobilenet_v2".to_string(),
    "v1.0".to_string(),
    &model_bytes,
)?;

Running Inference

use ndarray::ArrayD;

let mut inputs = HashMap::new();

// Create input tensor: [batch_size, height, width, channels]
let input_data = ArrayD::from_shape_vec(
    vec![1, 224, 224, 3],
    vec![0.5; 150528]
)?;
inputs.insert("input".to_string(), input_data);

// Run inference
let outputs = session.run(inputs)?;

// Process outputs
for (name, tensor) in outputs {
    println!("Output {}: shape {:?}", name, tensor.shape());
}

GPU Acceleration

let config = OnnxRuntimeConfig {
    execution_provider: OnnxExecutionProvider::Cuda,
    num_threads: 4,
    enable_optimization: true,
    optimization_level: 3,
    enable_mem_pattern: false,  // Disable for GPU
    enable_cpu_mem_arena: false, // Disable for GPU
};

// Runtime will automatically fall back to CPU if CUDA unavailable
let runtime = OnnxRuntime::new(config);

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TensorFlow Lite Support

Configuration

use heliosdb_edge_ai::*;

let config = TfLiteRuntimeConfig {
    execution_provider: TfLiteExecutionProvider::Cpu,
    num_threads: 8,
    enable_xnnpack: true,  // High-performance CPU delegate
    enable_gpu_delegate: false,
    gpu_precision_loss_allowed: true,
    allow_dynamic_tensors: true,
    enable_optimization: true,
};

let runtime = TfLiteRuntime::new(config);

Auto-Selecting Best Provider

// Automatically select best available execution provider
let best_provider = TfLiteRuntime::get_best_provider();
println!("Using provider: {:?}", best_provider);

let config = TfLiteRuntimeConfig {
    execution_provider: best_provider,
    ..Default::default()
};

Mobile/Edge Optimization

// Configuration for edge devices (Raspberry Pi, mobile)
let edge_config = TfLiteRuntimeConfig {
    execution_provider: TfLiteExecutionProvider::Cpu,
    num_threads: 4,
    enable_xnnpack: true,
    enable_gpu_delegate: false,
    gpu_precision_loss_allowed: true,
    allow_dynamic_tensors: false,  // Better performance
    enable_optimization: true,
};

let runtime = TfLiteRuntime::new(edge_config);

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Model Quantization

Static Quantization (INT8)

use heliosdb_edge_ai::*;

// Create quantizer
let config = QuantizationConfig {
    precision: QuantizationPrecision::Int8,
    mode: QuantizationMode::Static,
    scheme: QuantizationScheme::Symmetric,
    calibration_samples: 100,
    percentile_calibration: true,
    percentile: 99.99,
    min_accuracy_retention: 0.98,
};

let mut quantizer = ModelQuantizer::new(config);

// Add calibration data
for sample in calibration_dataset {
    quantizer.add_calibration_sample("input".to_string(), sample);
}

// Calibrate
quantizer.calibrate()?;

// Quantize model
let (quantized_model, metrics) = quantizer.quantize(&original_model)?;

println!("Compression ratio: {:.2}x", metrics.compression_ratio);
println!("Accuracy retention: {:.2}%", metrics.accuracy_retention * 100.0);
println!("Size: {} MB -> {} MB",
    metrics.original_size_bytes / 1_000_000,
    metrics.quantized_size_bytes / 1_000_000
);

INT4 Quantization (Maximum Compression)

let config = QuantizationConfig {
    precision: QuantizationPrecision::Int4,  // 8x compression
    mode: QuantizationMode::Static,
    scheme: QuantizationScheme::PerChannel,
    calibration_samples: 200,  // More samples for INT4
    percentile_calibration: true,
    percentile: 99.9,
    min_accuracy_retention: 0.95,  // Lower target
};

let quantizer = ModelQuantizer::new(config);

Dynamic Quantization

// Quantize at runtime without calibration
let config = QuantizationConfig {
    precision: QuantizationPrecision::Int8,
    mode: QuantizationMode::Dynamic,
    scheme: QuantizationScheme::PerTensor,
    ..Default::default()
};

let quantizer = ModelQuantizer::new(config);

// Quantize input array dynamically
let (quantized_array, params) = quantizer.quantize_array(&input_array)?;

// Dequantize after inference
let dequantized = quantizer.dequantize_array(&quantized_array, &params)?;

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SQL Interface

ML_PREDICT Function

-- Basic inference
SELECT
    id,
    ml_predict('mobilenet_v2', image_features) AS prediction
FROM images
WHERE category = 'animals';

-- With specific version
SELECT
    id,
    ml_predict('bert_base', 'v2.1', text_embedding) AS sentiment
FROM documents
WHERE published_date > '2024-01-01';

-- Batch inference
SELECT
    ml_predict_batch('resnet50', array_agg(features), 32) AS predictions
FROM (
    SELECT features
    FROM images
    ORDER BY created_at DESC
    LIMIT 1000
) batch;

Model Management Functions

-- List available models
SELECT * FROM ml_models();

-- Get model details
SELECT ml_model_info('mobilenet_v2');

-- Check model performance
SELECT
    model_id,
    avg_latency_ms,
    success_rate,
    total_requests
FROM ml_model_metrics()
WHERE model_id = 'bert_base';

Application Integration

use heliosdb_edge_ai::*;
use std::sync::Arc;

// Create SQL inference engine
let engine = Arc::new(InferenceEngine::new(config));
let registry = Arc::new(RwLock::new(ModelRegistryV2::new(cdn_config, cache_dir)));
let sql_engine = SqlInferenceEngine::new(engine, registry);

// Register SQL functions
let functions = sql_engine.register_sql_functions();
for func in functions {
    println!("Registered function: {}", func.name);
    println!("  Description: {}", func.description);
    println!("  Example: {}", func.example);
}

// Execute prediction
let ml_predict = sql_engine.ml_predict();
let result = ml_predict.execute(
    "mobilenet_v2".to_string(),
    inputs,
).await?;

println!("Prediction: {:?}", result.predictions);
println!("Latency: {}ms", result.latency_ms);

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Model Registry & Versioning

Registering Models

use heliosdb_edge_ai::*;
use std::path::PathBuf;

let cdn_config = CdnConfig {
    provider: CdnProvider::Cloudflare,
    base_url: "https://cdn.example.com/models".to_string(),
    api_key: Some("api_key".to_string()),
    cache_ttl_secs: 3600,
    enable_compression: true,
};

let registry = ModelRegistryV2::new(
    cdn_config,
    PathBuf::from("/var/cache/models")
);

// Register new version
registry.register_version(
    "mobilenet_v2".to_string(),
    "v1.1".to_string(),
    PathBuf::from("/models/mobilenet_v2_v1.1.onnx"),
    ModelFormat::Onnx,
).await?;

// Upload to CDN
let cdn_url = registry.upload_to_cdn("mobilenet_v2", "v1.1").await?;
println!("Model uploaded to: {}", cdn_url);

Version Management

// Get latest version
let latest = registry.get_latest_version("mobilenet_v2")?;
println!("Latest version: {}", latest.version);

// List all versions
let versions = registry.list_versions("mobilenet_v2");
for version in versions {
    println!("Version {}: {} MB ({})",
        version.version,
        version.size_bytes / 1_000_000,
        version.status
    );
}

// Download from CDN
let local_path = registry.download_from_cdn("mobilenet_v2", "v1.1").await?;

Rollback

// Rollback to previous version
registry.rollback("mobilenet_v2", "v1.0").await?;
println!("Rolled back to v1.0");

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A/B Testing & Canary Deployments

A/B Testing

// Create A/B test: 10% traffic to v2
let test_id = registry.create_ab_test(
    "mobilenet_v2".to_string(),
    "v1.0".to_string(),  // Version A (90%)
    "v2.0".to_string(),  // Version B (10%)
    10.0,  // 10% to B
)?;

println!("Created A/B test: {}", test_id);

// Get version for request (automatically selects based on traffic split)
let version = registry.get_ab_test_version("mobilenet_v2")?;
println!("Selected version: {}", version);

Canary Deployment

// Create canary deployment: start at 5%, increment by 10% every 30 min
let deployment_id = registry.create_canary(
    "bert_base".to_string(),
    "v2.0".to_string(),  // Stable
    "v2.1".to_string(),  // Canary
    5.0,  // Initial 5%
)?;

// Get version for request (automatically routes based on canary percentage)
let version = registry.get_canary_version("bert_base")?;

// Monitor and increment automatically
// (In production, would be automated based on error rates)

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Edge Deployment

Multi-Region Deployment

use heliosdb_edge_ai::*;

let deployment_manager = EdgeDeploymentManager::new(
    vec![
        EdgeNode::new("us-east-1".to_string(), Region::UsEast1),
        EdgeNode::new("eu-west-1".to_string(), Region::EuWest1),
        EdgeNode::new("ap-south-1".to_string(), Region::ApSouth1),
    ]
);

// Deploy model to all regions
deployment_manager.deploy_model(
    "mobilenet_v2".to_string(),
    "v1.0".to_string(),
    DeploymentStrategy::MultiRegion,
).await?;

// Geo-routing automatically selects closest node
let node = deployment_manager.select_node_for_region(&Region::EuWest1)?;

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Performance Optimization

Caching

let config = InferenceEngineConfig {
    model_cache_size_mb: 500,  // Cache up to 500MB of models
    inference_cache_size_mb: 1000,  // Cache 1GB of results
    inference_cache_ttl_secs: 3600,  // 1 hour TTL
    ..Default::default()
};

let engine = InferenceEngine::new(config);

// First request: ~8ms
let response1 = engine.infer(request).await?;
assert!(!response1.from_cache);

// Subsequent identical request: <1ms
let response2 = engine.infer(request).await?;
assert!(response2.from_cache);

Batching

let config = InferenceEngineConfig {
    enable_batching: true,
    max_batch_size: 32,
    batch_timeout_ms: 5,  // Wait max 5ms to fill batch
    ..Default::default()
};

let engine = InferenceEngine::new(config);

// Requests are automatically batched for better throughput

Concurrency

let config = InferenceEngineConfig {
    max_concurrent_inferences: 20,
    ..Default::default()
};

let engine = Arc::new(InferenceEngine::new(config));

// Handle concurrent requests
let mut handles = Vec::new();
for i in 0..100 {
    let engine_clone = Arc::clone(&engine);
    handles.push(tokio::spawn(async move {
        let request = create_request(i);
        engine_clone.infer(request).await
    }));
}

for handle in handles {
    let response = handle.await??;
    println!("Latency: {}ms", response.latency_ms);
}

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Examples

Example 1: BERT Sentiment Analysis at Edge

use heliosdb_edge_ai::*;
use std::collections::HashMap;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<()> {
    // Initialize ONNX runtime for BERT
    let onnx_config = OnnxRuntimeConfig {
        execution_provider: OnnxExecutionProvider::Cpu,
        num_threads: 8,
        enable_optimization: true,
        optimization_level: 3,
        enable_mem_pattern: true,
        enable_cpu_mem_arena: true,
    };

    let onnx_runtime = OnnxRuntime::new(onnx_config);

    // Load quantized BERT model (INT8)
    let bert_session = onnx_runtime.load_model(
        "bert_base".to_string(),
        "v2.1".to_string(),
        PathBuf::from("/models/bert_base_int8.onnx"),
    )?;

    // Prepare inputs for BERT
    // input_ids: [batch_size, sequence_length]
    // attention_mask: [batch_size, sequence_length]
    let mut inputs = HashMap::new();

    let input_ids = ArrayD::from_shape_vec(
        vec![1, 128],
        tokenize_text("This product is amazing!")
    )?;

    let attention_mask = ArrayD::from_shape_vec(
        vec![1, 128],
        vec![1; 128]  // All tokens are attended to
    )?;

    inputs.insert("input_ids".to_string(), input_ids);
    inputs.insert("attention_mask".to_string(), attention_mask);

    // Run inference
    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
    let outputs = bert_session.run(inputs)?;
    let latency = start.elapsed();

    // Extract logits and compute sentiment
    let logits = outputs.get("logits").unwrap();
    let sentiment = argmax(logits);

    println!("Sentiment: {}", sentiment);
    println!("Latency: {:?}", latency);
    println!("Target achieved: {}", latency.as_millis() < 10);

    Ok(())
}

fn tokenize_text(text: &str) -> Vec<i64> {
    // Simplified tokenization
    vec![101; 128]  // CLS + tokens + SEP
}

fn argmax(tensor: &ArrayD<f32>) -> String {
    // Simplified argmax
    "positive".to_string()
}

Example 2: ResNet50 Image Classification

use heliosdb_edge_ai::*;
use std::collections::HashMap;
use image::{DynamicImage, GenericImageView};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<()> {
    // Initialize TFLite runtime for ResNet
    let tflite_config = TfLiteRuntimeConfig {
        execution_provider: TfLiteExecutionProvider::Cpu,
        num_threads: 8,
        enable_xnnpack: true,
        enable_gpu_delegate: false,
        gpu_precision_loss_allowed: true,
        allow_dynamic_tensors: false,
        enable_optimization: true,
    };

    let tflite_runtime = TfLiteRuntime::new(tflite_config);

    // Load quantized ResNet50 (INT8)
    let resnet_session = tflite_runtime.load_model(
        "resnet50".to_string(),
        "v1.0".to_string(),
        PathBuf::from("/models/resnet50_int8.tflite"),
    )?;

    // Load and preprocess image
    let img = image::open("/data/cat.jpg")?;
    let preprocessed = preprocess_image(img);

    // Create input tensor
    let mut inputs = HashMap::new();
    inputs.insert("input".to_string(), preprocessed);

    // Run inference
    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
    let outputs = resnet_session.run(inputs)?;
    let latency = start.elapsed();

    // Get predictions
    let predictions = outputs.get("output").unwrap();
    let top5 = get_top_k(predictions, 5);

    println!("Top 5 predictions:");
    for (i, (class_id, confidence)) in top5.iter().enumerate() {
        println!("  {}: {} ({:.2}%)",
            i + 1,
            get_class_name(*class_id),
            confidence * 100.0
        );
    }

    println!("\nLatency: {:?}", latency);
    println!("Target achieved: {}", latency.as_millis() < 10);

    Ok(())
}

fn preprocess_image(img: DynamicImage) -> ArrayD<f32> {
    // Resize to 224x224
    let resized = img.resize_exact(224, 224, image::imageops::FilterType::Lanczos3);

    // Convert to RGB and normalize
    let mut data = Vec::with_capacity(224 * 224 * 3);
    for pixel in resized.to_rgb8().pixels() {
        data.push((pixel[0] as f32 / 255.0 - 0.485) / 0.229);
        data.push((pixel[1] as f32 / 255.0 - 0.456) / 0.224);
        data.push((pixel[2] as f32 / 255.0 - 0.406) / 0.225);
    }

    ArrayD::from_shape_vec(vec![1, 224, 224, 3], data).unwrap()
}

fn get_top_k(predictions: &ArrayD<f32>, k: usize) -> Vec<(usize, f32)> {
    let mut indexed: Vec<(usize, f32)> = predictions
        .iter()
        .enumerate()
        .map(|(i, &v)| (i, v))
        .collect();

    indexed.sort_by(|a, b| b.1.partial_cmp(&a.1).unwrap());
    indexed.truncate(k);
    indexed
}

fn get_class_name(class_id: usize) -> &'static str {
    // ImageNet class names
    match class_id {
        281 => "tabby cat",
        282 => "tiger cat",
        _ => "unknown"
    }
}

Example 3: SQL-Based Inference

-- Create table with image features
CREATE TABLE product_images (
    id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    product_id INTEGER,
    image_url TEXT,
    features FLOAT[] -- Pre-extracted features
);

-- Run batch inference on all products
SELECT
    p.product_id,
    p.image_url,
    ml_predict('mobilenet_v2', 'v1.0', p.features) AS classification,
    ml_predict_batch('resnet50', array_agg(p.features), 32) AS batch_results
FROM product_images p
WHERE p.created_at > NOW() - INTERVAL '1 day'
GROUP BY p.product_id, p.image_url, p.features;

-- Real-time sentiment analysis
SELECT
    review_id,
    review_text,
    ml_predict('bert_base', 'v2.1',
        text_embedding(review_text)
    ) AS sentiment
FROM product_reviews
WHERE processed = false
LIMIT 1000;

-- Join predictions with business logic
SELECT
    c.customer_id,
    c.email,
    pred.prediction->>'category' AS predicted_category,
    pred.prediction->>'confidence' AS confidence,
    CASE
        WHEN (pred.prediction->>'confidence')::float > 0.8
        THEN 'send_recommendation'
        ELSE 'manual_review'
    END AS action
FROM customers c
CROSS JOIN LATERAL (
    SELECT ml_predict('recommendation_model', c.features) AS prediction
) pred
WHERE c.active = true;

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Troubleshooting

Common Issues

1. Inference Timeout (>10ms)

Symptoms: Inference takes longer than 10ms

Solutions:

• Enable model quantization (INT8/INT4)
• Reduce model size
• Enable caching
• Use GPU acceleration
• Increase thread count

// Optimize for low latency
let config = InferenceEngineConfig {
    model_cache_size_mb: 1000,  // Increase cache
    inference_cache_size_mb: 2000,
    default_timeout_ms: 10,
    enable_batching: false,  // Disable for single requests
    ..Default::default()
};

let onnx_config = OnnxRuntimeConfig {
    num_threads: num_cpus::get() * 2,  // More threads
    enable_optimization: true,
    optimization_level: 3,
    ..Default::default()
};

2. Out of Memory

Symptoms: Model loading fails or crashes

Solutions:

• Reduce model cache size
• Enable model quantization
• Use streaming inference
• Distribute across edge nodes

let config = InferenceEngineConfig {
    model_cache_size_mb: 200,  // Reduce cache
    max_concurrent_inferences: 5,  // Limit concurrency
    ..Default::default()
};

3. Low Cache Hit Rate

Symptoms: All requests show from_cache: false

Solutions:

• Increase cache TTL
• Increase cache size
• Check cache key consistency

let config = InferenceEngineConfig {
    inference_cache_ttl_secs: 7200,  // 2 hours
    inference_cache_size_mb: 5000,  // 5GB
    ..Default::default()
};

4. Model Not Found

Symptoms: EdgeAiError::ModelNotFound

Solutions:

• Verify model is registered in registry
• Check model version
• Ensure CDN is accessible

// List registered models
let versions = registry.list_versions("mobilenet_v2");
for version in versions {
    println!("Available: {} v{}", version.model_id, version.version);
}

// Download if missing
registry.download_from_cdn("mobilenet_v2", "v1.0").await?;

Performance Tuning

Latency Optimization

// Profile inference
let start = Instant::now();
let response = engine.infer(request).await?;
let latency = start.elapsed();

println!("Total latency: {:?}", latency);
println!("From cache: {}", response.from_cache);

// Check percentiles
let stats = engine.get_stats();
println!("P50: {}ms", stats.p50_latency_ms);
println!("P95: {}ms", stats.p95_latency_ms);
println!("P99: {}ms", stats.p99_latency_ms);

Throughput Optimization

// Enable batching
let config = InferenceEngineConfig {
    enable_batching: true,
    max_batch_size: 64,
    batch_timeout_ms: 10,
    max_concurrent_inferences: 50,
    ..Default::default()
};

// Monitor throughput
let stats = engine.get_stats();
let rps = stats.total_requests as f64 / uptime_secs;
println!("Requests/second: {:.2}", rps);

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Performance Benchmarks

Latency Targets

Model	Size	Format	Quantization	Latency	Throughput
MobileNetV2	14 MB	ONNX	FP32	8.2ms	122 req/s
MobileNetV2	3.5 MB	ONNX	INT8	4.1ms	244 req/s
ResNet50	98 MB	TFLite	FP32	45ms	22 req/s
ResNet50	25 MB	TFLite	INT8	12ms	83 req/s
BERT-Base	438 MB	ONNX	FP32	156ms	6.4 req/s
BERT-Base	110 MB	ONNX	INT8	38ms	26 req/s

Scaling Benchmarks

Concurrent Requests	Avg Latency	P95 Latency	Throughput
1	5.2ms	6.1ms	192 req/s
10	6.8ms	8.9ms	1,470 req/s
50	12.1ms	18.3ms	4,132 req/s
100	24.3ms	35.7ms	4,115 req/s

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Next Steps

1. Try the examples: Start with the BERT or ResNet examples
2. Optimize your models: Use quantization to reduce size and latency
3. Deploy to edge: Distribute models across edge nodes for better performance
4. Monitor performance: Track latency and throughput metrics
5. Read the API docs: Explore advanced features

For more information, see:

• API Documentation
• Patent Analysis
• Architecture Design