Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 69, Issue 10, Pages 6838-6851Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3096559
Keywords
Reliability; Task analysis; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Internet of Things; 5G mobile communication; Resource management; Cloud computing; Computation offloading; Internet of Things; multi-access edge computing; unmanned aerial vehicles; ultra-reliable low-latency communication
Funding
- NSERC Discovery Grant
- Concordia University
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This paper addresses the novel problem of UAV-aided ultra-reliable low-latency computation offloading to enable future IoT services with strict requirements. The problem is divided into planning and operational phases, with an approximate algorithm and task partitioning model considered for efficient solutions. Numerical analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed solution across various scenarios, compared to baseline approaches.
Modern 5G services with stringent reliability and latency requirements such as smart healthcare and industrial automation have become possible through the advancement of Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). However, the rigidity of ground MEC and its susceptibility to infrastructure failure would prevent satisfying the resiliency and strict requirements of those services. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been proposed for providing flexible edge computing capability through UAV-mounted cloudlets, harnessing their advantages such as mobility, low-cost, and line-of-sight communication. However, UAV-mounted cloudlets may have failure rates that would impact mission-critical applications, necessitating a novel study for the provisioned reliability considering UAV node reliability and task redundancy. In this paper, we investigate the novel problem of UAV-aided ultra-reliable low-latency computation offloading which would enable future IoT services with strict requirements. We aim at maximizing the rate of served requests, by optimizing the UAVs' positions, the offloading decisions, and the allocated resources while respecting the stringent latency and reliability requirements. To do so, the problem is divided into two phases, the first being a planning problem to optimize the placement of UAVs and the second an operational problem to make optimized offloading and resource allocation decisions with constrained UAVs' energy. We formulate both problems associated with each phase as non-convex mixed-integer programs, and due to their non-convexity, we propose a two-stage approximate algorithm where the two problems are transformed into approximate convex programs. Further, we approach the problem considering the task partitioning model which will be prevalent in 5G networks. Through numerical analysis, we demonstrate the efficiency of our solution considering various scenarios, and compare it to other baseline approaches.
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