Paper Info
Title
Data Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing: A Coalition and Pricing Based Approach.
Abstract
Mobile edge computing (MEC) that affords service to the vicinity of mobile devices (MDs) has become a key technology for future network. Offloading big data to the MEC server for preprocessing is an attractive approach of MDs. In this paper, we investigate data offloading from MDs to MEC servers, and a coalitional game-based pricing scheme is proposed. We apply coalitions to arrange data offloading of MDs as well as depict the offloading relationship between MDs and MEC servers. Furthermore, pricing is utilized as the stimuli for the offloading. In the proposed scheme, a scheduled MD in a coalition chooses an MEC server within the same coalition for offloading, and pays the selected MEC server for the MEC service. By analyzing the formulated coalitional non-transferable utility game, theoretical properties are derived and sufficient conditions for the core existence are given. Finally, the utility performances of the proposed scheme are demonstrated by numerical results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2785265
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile edge computing,offloading,coalitional game,pricing
Edge computing,Computer science,Server,Computer network,Mobile device,Bandwidth (signal processing),Mobile edge computing,Preprocessor,Big data,Mobile telephony,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tian Zhang1748.74