Robust Task Offloading and Trajectory Optimization for UAV-Mounted Mobile Edge Computing

Runhe Wang

doi:10.3390/drones8120757

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Robust Task Offloading and Trajectory Optimization for UAV-Mounted Mobile Edge Computing

2024-12-14

DOI：10.3390/drones8120757

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Mobile edge computing (MEC) deployed in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has shown special strength by enhancing computational capacity and prolonging the battery lives of terrestrial user equipment (UE). Nevertheless, current research lacks studies of robust offloading scheme scheduling and trajectory planning using terrestrial random channels. The state-of-the-art joint task-offloading and trajectory-planning optimization techniques for UAV-mounted MEC are focused on scenarios where only air-ground channels exist rather than time-varying terrestrial channels. By contrast, this paper considers the scenario where both the time-varying/random terrestrial channels and the line-of-sight air-ground channels occur. Aiming at robust resource scheduling for energy-efficient UAV-assisted MEC, we formulate a novel joint optimization of UAV trajectory planning and task offloading, which, however, is highly nonconvex. As a countermeasure, the original optimization is recast as subproblems related to task offloading and trajectory planning and solved by a novel robust iterative optimization algorithm that combines the methods of weighted minimum mean square error, S-procedure, successive convex approximation, etc. Numerical results indicate that, compared to various baselines, the proposed algorithm can effectively reduce energy consumption and optimize the trajectory in the presence of a large number of input tasks. In addition, in terms of stability and effectiveness, the proposed robust iterative optimization algorithm can reduce energy consumption more stably in time-varying/random channels compared to non-robust schemes.

Keywords:

UAV

mobile edge computing

trajectory optimization

resource scheduling

robust optimization