Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been an effective paradigm for supporting computation-intensive applications by offloading resources at network edge. Especially in vehicular networks, the MEC server, is deployed as a small-scale computation server at the roadside and offloads computation-intensive task to its local server. However, due to the unique characteristics of vehicular networks, including high mobility of vehicles, dynamic distribution of vehicle densities and heterogeneous capacities of MEC servers, it is still challenging to implement efficient computation offloading mechanism in MEC-assisted vehicular networks. In this article, we investigate a novel scenario of computation offloading in MEC-assisted architecture, where task upload coordination between multiple vehicles, task migration between MEC/cloud servers and heterogeneous computation capabilities of MEC/cloud severs, are comprehensively investigated. On this basis, we formulate cooperative computation offloading (CCO) problem by modeling the procedure of task upload, migration and computation based on queuing theory, which aims at minimizing the delay of task completion. To tackle the CCO problem, we propose a probabilistic computation offloading (PCO) algorithm, which enables MEC server to independently make online scheduling based on the derived allocation probability. Specifically, the PCO transforms the objective function into augmented Lagrangian and achieves the optimal solution in an iterative way, based on a convex framework called Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). Last but not the least, we implement the simulation model. The comprehensive simulation results show the superiority of the proposed algorithm under a wide range of scenarios.


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    Title :

    A Probabilistic Approach for Cooperative Computation Offloading in MEC-Assisted Vehicular Networks


    Contributors:
    Dai, Penglin (author) / Hu, Kaiwen (author) / Wu, Xiao (author) / Xing, Huanlai (author) / Teng, Fei (author) / Yu, Zhaofei (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-02-01


    Size :

    2345464 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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