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Efficient computation offloading for multi-access edge computing in 5G HetNets

  • Xidian University

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Abstract

To meet the mobile devices' surging demands for throughput and computation resources in 5G networks, heterogeneous networks (HetNets) and multi-access edge computing (MEC) are expected to be two key distinct but complementary technologies. By offloading the computation tasks of the mobile devices (MDs) to the nearby MEC servers at the edge of radio access networks, MEC can largely augment the MDs' computation resources and battery lifetime. However, existing research on mobile-edge computation offloading only focused on multi-user single-MEC scenarios and little work can be found on designing computation offloading schemes for the case of multi-user multi-MEC. Toward this end, we investigate the problem of collaborative mobile-edge computation offloading in 5G HetNets and propose a game-theoretical computation offloading scheme. Numerical results corroborate that our collaborative computation offloading scheme for multiple MEC servers can not only reduce the overall computation overhead efficiently, but also achieve a Nash equilibrium in a finite number of steps.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Print)9781538631805
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018 - Kansas City, United States
Duration: 20 May 201824 May 2018

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume2018-May
ISSN (Print)1550-3607

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKansas City
Period20/05/1824/05/18

Keywords

  • 5G
  • Computation offloading
  • Game theory
  • HetNets
  • MEC
  • Multi-access edge computing

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