Title
Online learning offloading framework for heterogeneous mobile edge computing system.
Abstract
Cloud of Things (CoT) is a significant paradigm for bridging cloud resource and mobile terminals. Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a supporting architecture for CoT. The objectives of this paper are to describe and evaluate a method to handle the computation offloading problem during user mobility which minimizes the offloading failure rate in heterogeneous network. Furthermore, users’ mobility and their choices for offloading lead to the everchanging condition of wireless network and opportunistic resource available. By modeling such dynamic mobile edge environment, quantizing the user cost, failure penalty and diversified QoS requirements, computation offloading problem is converted into an online decision-making problem in a stochastic process. We divide the decision-making into two phases: offloading planning phase and offloading running phase. In both phases the learning agent can continuously improve the control policy. We also conduct a failure recovery policy to tackle different types of failure and is included in the decision-making process. The numerical results show that the proposed online learning offloading method for mobile users can derive the optimal offloading scheme compared with the baseline algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.jpdc.2019.02.003
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile edge computing,Cloudlet,Computation offloading,Offloading failure,Reinforcement learning
Wireless network,Computer science,Bridging (networking),Failure rate,Quality of service,Computation offloading,Mobile edge computing,Heterogeneous network,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
128
0743-7315
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Feifei Zhang16119.93
JiDong Ge211928.39
Chifong Wong361.46
Chuanyi Li42712.92
Xingguo Chen582.00
Sheng Zhang611310.66
Bin Luo76621.04
He Zhang881765.63
Victor I. Chang940738.79