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Multiuser Computation Offloading and Downloading for Edge Computing With Virtualization

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Zezu Liang
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Yuan Liu *
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Tat-Ming Lok
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Kaibin Huang
DOI:10.1109/TWC.2019.2922613delete
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Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is an emerging technology for enhancing the computational capabilities of the mobile devices and reducing their energy consumption via offloading complex computation tasks to the nearby servers. Multiuser MEC at servers is widely realized via parallel computing based on virtualization. Due to finite shared I/O resources, interference between virtual machines (VMs), called I/O interference, degrades the computation performance. In this paper, we study the problem of joint radio-and-computation resource allocation (RCRA) in multiuser MEC systems in the presence of I/O interference. Specifically, offloading scheduling algorithms is designed targeting two system performance metrics: sum offloading rate maximization and sum mobile energy consumption minimization. Their designs are formulated as non-convex mixed-integer programming problems, which account for latency due to offloading, result downloading, and parallel computing. A set of low-complexity algorithms are designed based on a decomposition approach and leveraging classic techniques from combinatorial optimization. The resultant algorithms jointly schedule offloading users, control their offloading sizes, and divide time for communication (offloading and downloading) and computation. They are either optimal or can achieve close-to-optimality as shown by simulation. The comprehensive simulation results demonstrate that considering of I/O interference can endow on an offloading controller robustness against the performance-degradation factor.
Keywords:
Mobile edge computing (MEC)
parallel computing
I/O interference
virtual machine (VM)
resource allocation
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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications cover
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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University of Hong Kong
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Chinese University of Hong Kong
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south china university of technology
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