Energy-Efficient Multimedia Task Assignment and Computing Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing Networks

Yang Sun

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2973359

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Energy-Efficient Multimedia Task Assignment and Computing Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing Networks

2020-01-01

DOI：10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2973359

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With the rapid development of 5G technology in recent years, multimedia communication services, such as live online and short video, have received wide attention and become the important means of people's daily social intercourse. However, the rapid growth of multimedia communication demands pose greater challenges to both the wireless network communication capacity and the network processing capacity. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is widely regarded as a promising technology to cope with the above challenges. To satisfy the growing demands and improve the quality of experience for users, it is in urge need to seek the effective and efficient task assignment and computing offloading strategy for MEC networks. In this paper, we focused on the multimedia services which need to be processed, uploaded and shared in the network and research the long-term task assignment and resource coordination problem. We formulate the optimization problem as a stochastic optimization problem with the aim of the minimizing the time-average energy consumption of the system. By using the Lyapunov optimization technique, we decompose the original problem into several subproblems which can be solved with current system information and low computational complexities. On this basis, we propose an online energy-efficient task assignment and computing offloading strategy to adaptively decide the task assignment, coordinate and optimize the wireless and computation resource allocation by taking the dynamic wireless condition and service delay constraints into consideration. Extensive simulation results show that our proposed algorithm can achieve considerate energy consumption and delay performances under different conditions.

Keywords:

Multimedia transmission

task assignment

computing offloading

Lyapunov optimization

delay constraints

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