Journal
IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 2651-2664Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2018.2873002
Keywords
Mobile edge computing; small cell networks; computation offloading management; genetic algorithm; particle swarm optimization
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61771070]
- BUPT Excellent Ph.D.
- Students Foundation [CX2018201]
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To tackle the contradiction between the computation intensive applications and the resource-hungry mobile user equipments (UEs), mobile edge computing (MEC) has been provisioned as a promising solution, which enables the UEs to offload the tasks to the MEC servers. Considering the characteristics of small cell networks (SCNs), integrating MEC into SCNs is natural. But in terms of the high interference, multi-access property, and limited resources of small cell base stations (SBSs), an efficient computation offloading scheme is essential. However, there still lack comprehensive studies on this problem in the densely deployed SCNs. In this paper, we study the energy-efficient computation offloading management scheme in the MEC system with SCNs. The aim of this paper is to minimize the energy consumption of all UEs via jointly optimizing computation offloading decision making, spectrum, power, and computation resource allocation. Specially, the UEs need not only to decide whether to offload but also to determine where to offload. First, we present the computation offloading model and formulate this problem as a mix integer non-linear programming problem, which is NP-hard. Taking advantages of genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO), we design a suboptimal algorithm named as hierarchical GA and PSO-based computation algorithm to solve this problem. Finally, the convergence of this algorithm is studied by simulation, and the performance of the proposed algorithm is verified by comparing with the other baseline algorithms.
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