Cost-Efficient Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing With Layered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Abstract

Mobile edge computing (MEC) paradigm supports cloud-like computing capabilities at the edge of the network and offers low-latency services. Proxy servers of MEC with mobility and limited computing, e.g., flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as competitors in providing services. This work considers a task offloading problem for an UAV-assisted MEC system and designs an integrated cloud-edge network with multiple mobile users (MUs) and layered UAVs to improve MEC with a network of UAVs. In our system, edge UAVs (EUAVs) and the cloud collaborate to provide caching and computing services for MUs. We consider static and dynamic applications that support task offloading. Our proposed approach minimizes the weighted cost of latency and energy consumption by jointly optimizing caching and offloading, deployment of EUAVs, and allocation of computation resources. Simultaneously, this work also considers UAVs' caching and computation capacities while meeting MUs' latency and energy constraints. Thus, a constrained mixed integer nonlinear program for a layered UAV-assisted hybrid cloud-edge system is formulated. To solve it, this work designs a hybrid metaheuristic algorithm named adaptive and genetic simulated annealing (SA)-based particle swarm optimization (AGSP). Experimental results with a real-life dataset verify that the AGSP's system energy consumption and task latency are reduced by at least 7.4% and 8.46%, respectively, compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms, thus proving that AGSP greatly enhances the energy and latency of the system.

Identifier

85199567876 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2024.3408216

e-ISSN

23274662

First Page

30496

Last Page

30509

Issue

19

Volume

11

Grant

62173013

Fund Ref

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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