The rapid development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) has brought revolutionary changes to the healthcare system. However, due to the shortcomings of the sink node with limited energy resource and computing cap...
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(数字)9781538683477
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(纸本)9781538683477
The rapid development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) has brought revolutionary changes to the healthcare system. However, due to the shortcomings of the sink node with limited energy resource and computing capability, it is difficult to handle all computationtasks effectively and timely. The emergence of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) may provide a potential and efficient solution. Therefore, we devote this paper to developing a computation task offloading scheme based on MCC and MEC for WBANs. Technically, we first propose a three-tier system model with one Remote Cloud Server (RCS), several Mobile Edge Servers (MESs) and multiple WBAN users. Then, an optimization problem with the objective to minimize the total cost in terms of the energy consumption and the delay is formulated. In order to solve the problem, we next investigate a computation task offloading Scheme based on Differential Evolution algorithm, called CTOS-DE. The simulation results demonstrate that our proposed CTOS-DE scheme can provide a best computation task offloading decision in terms of the total cost and load balancing.
computation task offloading plays a crucial role in facilitating computation-intensive applications and edge intelligence, particularly in response to the explosive growth of massive data generation. Various enabling ...
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computation task offloading plays a crucial role in facilitating computation-intensive applications and edge intelligence, particularly in response to the explosive growth of massive data generation. Various enabling techniques, wireless technologies and mechanisms have already been proposed for taskoffloading, primarily aimed at improving the quality of services (QoS) for users. While there exists an extensive body of literature on this topic, exploring computationoffloading from the standpoint of task types has been relatively underrepresented. This motivates our survey, which seeks to classify the state-of-the-art (SoTA) from the task type point-of-view. To achieve this, a thorough literature review is conducted to reveal the SoTA from various aspects, including architecture, objective, offloading strategy, and task types, with the consideration of task generation. It has been observed that task types are associated with data and have an impact on the offloading process, including elements like resource allocation and task assignment. Building upon this insight, computationoffloading is categorized into two groups based on task types: static task-based offloading and dynamic task-based offloading. Finally, a prospective view of the challenges and opportunities in the field of future computationoffloading is presented.
The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has propelled mobile edge computing (MEC) into the forefront of both academia and industry. Nevertheless, the surge in urban activities driven by economic developm...
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The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has propelled mobile edge computing (MEC) into the forefront of both academia and industry. Nevertheless, the surge in urban activities driven by economic development is putting a strain on infrastructure like transportation and utilities. Increased demand for computing tasks and server failures from natural disasters can severely strain MEC in a specific region due to its reliance on static edge servers. To address these challenges, we introduce an MEC framework called onboard edge computing (OBEC), which explores onboard servers to provide computational offloading services in mobile scenarios. To determine the end devices that each onboard server will serve, we propose the concept of "hunger value" to accurately measure the resource idleness of an onboard server. We also implement a Genetic Optimization-based Hunting-Predation Algorithm, an onboard server as a predator and a service end device as a prey, to minimize the overall hunger value of the whole system. Taking into account the power consumption of onboard servers and the satisfaction of end devices, we introduce a Stackelberg game to allow each onboard server to select the optimal serviced end devices and efficiently provide the required resources. Since this Stackelberg game lacks an analytical solution, we employ gradient descent to calculate the optimal offloading and resource allocation strategy. Finally, we conduct simulation experiments to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed OBEC framework over other state-of-art methods across various scenarios, underscoring its potential to foster synergistic interactions between servers and end devices.
With the rapid development of high-speed assistant driving and smart inspections, the edge network is required to provide quick and reliable service to avoid large service response delays and frequent re-transmissions...
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With the rapid development of high-speed assistant driving and smart inspections, the edge network is required to provide quick and reliable service to avoid large service response delays and frequent re-transmissions caused by interruption. However, the reasonable service component caching, efficient edge collaboration and reliable cross-domain computationoffloading are still key problems to be solved. Thus, we consider an AI and mobile edge computing (MEC) integrated service framework, which is highly reliable for high-speed mobile businesses, and we divide the service process into component caching phase and taskoffloading phase. In the first phase, we novelly define the edge collaborative service domain (ECSD) which allows multiple edge nodes to collaboratively share resources from a global perspective and design a user behavior aware service component pre-caching method to increase resource utilization. In the second phase, based on the formed ECSDs and cached service components, we present an AI-empowered cross-domain computation task offloading mechanism including task partition and backup to enhance the reliable service capability of edge networks. Simulation results verify that the proposed mechanism can jointly optimize the allocation of caching, computation, and communication resources, while improving the service response speed and resource utility of edge networks.
In recent years, vehicular networks have experienced substantial growth, transforming the landscape of the transportation industry. In particular, the issue of computing taskoffloading in vehicular networks is critic...
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In recent years, vehicular networks have experienced substantial growth, transforming the landscape of the transportation industry. In particular, the issue of computing taskoffloading in vehicular networks is critically important. The two key considerations are offloadingtask delay and energy consumption. Thus, a multiple access (MA) scheme is necessary in vehicular networks to facilitate more efficient computation task offloading. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is recognized as a promising candidate for multiple access in fifth-generation (5G) and beyond networks due to its potential to improve overall spectrum efficiency through superposition coding. Moreover, mobile edge computing (MEC) can minimize computationtask delay and energy consumption by bringing computational resources closer to vehicles. Therefore, this paper examines the potential of employing mobile edge computing (MEC) with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in vehicular networks to reduce overall computationoffloadingtask delay and energy consumption. Specifically, computation models for task delay and energy consumption are presented. Additionally, considering universal frequency reuse, we analyze interference-limited scenarios and allow interference from the transmissions of other vehicles and roadside units. The optimization problems for delay and energy are formulated based on the described models. Due to the non-convex nature of the optimization problem, they are solved numerically using the Python programming language. Furthermore, analytical expressions for outage probability are provided to evaluate the typical vehicle's outage performance. Simulation results demonstrate the delay and energy performance of the MEC-NOMA-enabled vehicular networks compared to their OMA-based counterparts. The results indicate that MEC-NOMA achieves lower delay, reduced energy consumption, and improved outage performance compared to OMA-based vehicular networks.
For UAV-aided wireless systems, online path planning attracts much attention recently. To better adapt to the real-time dynamic environment, for the first time, we propose a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-based path p...
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For UAV-aided wireless systems, online path planning attracts much attention recently. To better adapt to the real-time dynamic environment, for the first time, we propose a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-based path planning scheme. In details, we consider a single UAV acts as a mobile server to provide computationtasks offloading services for a set of mobile users on the ground, where the movement of ground users follows a Random Way Point model. Our model aims at maximizing the average throughput under energy consumption and user fairness constraints, and the proposed time-saving MCTS algorithm can further improve the performance. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves a larger average throughput and a faster convergence performance compared with the baseline algorithms of Q-learning and Deep Q-Network.
One of the promising technologies to minimize computing delay and taskoffloading is Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which enables mobile devices to offload high computational works. Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)...
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One of the promising technologies to minimize computing delay and taskoffloading is Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which enables mobile devices to offload high computational works. Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is also regarded as one of the significant approaches for improving the spectrum efficacy, whereas the Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) helps to assist the enormous amount of candidates for continuous offloading. These two mechanisms can support the offloading and then enhance the MEC framework's performance. Nevertheless, the incorporation of portable cloud computing might result in substantial delays in offloading or congestion in network traffic due to the restricted capacity of the main network infrastructure, particularly when a considerable number of users simultaneously seek computational offloading. This emphasizes the necessity for sophisticated network management and improvements to infrastructure in order to satisfy the increasing demands of mobile edge computing. This work presents a highly effective MIMO-NOMA technique in MEC to increase the process of taskoffloading. The objective of this work is to decrease the overall transmission and computing delay under the MEC computing capability and the transmit power of the user. With the support of this pairing mechanism for Massive MIMO-NOMA, the lower channel gain candidates and the greater channel gain users can offload their information to the MEC. The Hybrid PufferFish Osprey Optimization (HPFOO) algorithm is utilized to optimize the parameters in the model. The HPFOO is a combination of the Pufferfish Optimization Algorithm (POA) and Osprey Optimization Algorithm (OOA) with the goal of reducing both transmission and computing delay. The performance investigation of the NOMA-MIMO-based MEC device is carried out by comparing its overall latency and total data throughput with those of the current system configurations.
In a vehicular edge computing (VEC) system, vehicles can share their surplus computation resources to provide cloud computing services. The highly dynamic environment of the vehicular network makes it challenging to g...
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In a vehicular edge computing (VEC) system, vehicles can share their surplus computation resources to provide cloud computing services. The highly dynamic environment of the vehicular network makes it challenging to guarantee the taskoffloading delay. To this end, we introduce task replication to the VEC system, where the replicas of a task are offloaded to multiple vehicles at the same time, and the task is completed upon the first response among replicas. First, the impact of the number of task replicas on the offloading delay is characterized, and the optimal number of task replicas is approximated in closed-form. Based on the analytical result, we design a learning-based task replication algorithm (LTRA) with combinatorial multi-armed bandit theory, which works in a distributed manner and can automatically adapt itself to the dynamics of the VEC system. A realistic traffic scenario is used to evaluate the delay performance of the proposed algorithm. Results show that, under our simulation settings, LTRA with an optimized number of task replicas can reduce the average offloading delay by over 30% compared to the benchmark without task replication, and at the same time can improve the task completion ratio from 97% to 99.6%.
作者:
Liu, YuLi, YongNiu, YongJin, DepengTsinghua Univ
Dept Elect Engn Beijing Natl Res Ctr Informat Sci & Technol BNRis Beijing 100084 Peoples R China Beijing Jiaotong Univ
Beijing Engn Res Ctr High Speed Railway Broadband State Key Lab Rail Traff Control & Safety Beijing 100044 Peoples R China Beijing Jiaotong Univ
Sch Elect & Informat Engn Beijing 100044 Peoples R China
With the rapid development of mobile applications, mobile edge computing (MEC), which provides various cloud resources (e.g., computation and storage resources) closer to mobile and IoT devices for computation offload...
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With the rapid development of mobile applications, mobile edge computing (MEC), which provides various cloud resources (e.g., computation and storage resources) closer to mobile and IoT devices for computationoffloading, has been broadly studied in both academia and industry. However, due to the limited coverage of static edge servers, the traditional MEC technology performs badly in a nowadays environment. To adapt the diverse demands, in this paper, we propose a novel mobile edge mechanism with a vehicle-mounted edge (V-edge) deployed. Aiming at maximizing completed tasks of V-edge with sensitive deadline, the problem of joint path planning and resource allocation is formulated into a mixed integer nonlinear program (MINLP). By utilizing the piecewise linear approximation and linear relaxation, we transform the MINLP into a mixed integer linear program (MILP). To obtain the near-optimal solution, we further develop a gap-adjusted branch & bound algorithm, also called GA-B&B algorithm. Moreover, we propose a low-complexity L-step lookahead branch scheme (referred to as L-step scheme) for efficient scheduling in large-scale scenarios. Extensive evaluations demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed scheme compared with the traditional static edge mechanism. Furthermore, the proposed L-step scheme achieves close performance to the near-optimal solution, and significantly improves the task completion percentage of state-of-the-art schemes by over 10 percent.
In this paper, we develop taskoffloading and resource allocation scheme for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system with channel estimation errors over Rician fading channels. The ob...
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In this paper, we develop taskoffloading and resource allocation scheme for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) system with channel estimation errors over Rician fading channels. The objective is to maximize the system utility with constrained network stability, transmit power, and data arrival rate. We consider a general multi-user UAV-assisted MEC system based on frequency division multiple access (FDMA), and we assume that the computationtasks are split into separate tasks and offloaded to the server for computing. We study stochastic computational resource management based on the Lyapunov optimization algorithm. The optimal transmit power and bandwidth allocation for computationoffloading are obtained alternately, and the optimal computationtask admission at each time slot and the optimal value of the auxiliary variable are derived. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in the paper and evaluate the influence of various parameters to the system performance.
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