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DeepEdge: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Task Orchestrator for Edge Computing

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Baris Yamansavascilar *
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Ahmet Cihat Baktır
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Cagatay Sonmez
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Atay Özgövde
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Cem Ersoy
DOI:10.1109/TNSE.2022.3217311delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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The improvements in the edge computing technology pave the road for diversified applications that demand real-time interaction. However, due to the mobility of the end-users and the dynamic edge environment, it becomes challenging to handle the task offloading with high performance. Moreover, since each application in mobile devices has different characteristics, a task orchestrator must be adaptive and have the ability to learn the dynamics of the environment. For this purpose, we develop a deep reinforcement learning based task orchestrator, DeepEdge, which learns to meet different task requirements without needing human interaction even under the heavily-loaded stochastic network conditions in terms of mobile users and applications. Given the dynamic offloading requests and time-varying communication conditions, we successfully model the problem as a Markov process and then apply the Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN) algorithm to implement DeepEdge. To evaluate the robustness of DeepEdge, we experiment with four different applications including image rendering, infotainment, pervasive health, and augmented reality in the network under various loads. Furthermore, we compare the performance of our agent with the four different task offloading approaches in the literature. Our results show that DeepEdge outperforms its competitors in terms of the percentage of satisfactorily completed tasks.
Keywords:
Task analysis
Edge computing
Servers
Costs
Performance evaluation
Computational modeling
Cloud computing
Deep learning
deep reinforcement learning
edge computing
reinforcement learning
task offloading

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IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
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Bogazici University
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