Satellite-assisted 6G wide-area edge intelligence:dynamics-aware task offloading and resource allocation for remote IoT services

作     者：Di ZHAO Rui DING Bin SONG 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services NetworksXidian University Hangzhou Institute of TechnologyXidian University China Satellite Network Group Co.Ltd. 

出 版 物：《Science China(Information Sciences)》 (中国科学:信息科学(英文版))

年 卷 期：2025年第68卷第2期

页      面：248-268页

核心收录：

学科分类：080904[工学-电磁场与微波技术] 0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 080402[工学-测试计量技术及仪器] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 081001[工学-通信与信息系统] 

基　　金：supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2023YFB2904700) National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62372357, 62201419) 

主　　题：6G wide-area edge intelligence cross-region task offloading cross-domain resource allocation spatio-temporal attention proximal policy optimization 

摘      要：Future 6G networks will integrate non-terrestrial communication with mobile edge computing to enable wide-area edge intelligence, providing ubiquitous communication and computation services for everyone and everything. In this paper, we introduce the intelligent cloud-edge-device architecture into low Earth orbit(LEO) satellite-supported remote Internet of Things(IoT) networks to facilitate latency-sensitive and compute-intensive IoT applications. However, the dynamic spatio-temporal characteristics inherent in LEO satellite networks, such as the high volatility of task traffic and the high mobility of space nodes, pose severe challenges. For efficient task execution, we investigate the joint optimization of cross-region task offloading and cross-domain resource allocation, and innovatively propose a spatio-temporal attention-based proximal policy optimization(STA-PPO) algorithm. Specifically, the temporal attention-based actor network analyzes the timing dependencies of task arrival and makes time-variant decisions. Simultaneously, the spatial attention-based critic network captures the spatial variations of satellite motion and evaluates the topology-related value. We verify the effectiveness of the cloud-edge-device collaboration through extensive simulations. Numerical results demonstrate that the STA-PPO algorithm outperforms benchmarks, showing the lowest system delay and the highest link throughput.