Title
Graph4edge: A Graph-Based Computation Offloading Strategy For Mobile-Edge Workflow Applications
Abstract
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) expands the capability of mobile devices so that users can run complicated and computation-intensive applications such as workflow and machine learning tasks. Computation offloading is the key technology for MEC and has attracted a lot of research efforts in recent years. However, most of the existing studies employed optimisation algorithms such as GA and PSO which have significant computation overhead. Meanwhile, the computation tasks are often assumed to be independent of each other, which is not applicable to workflow applications with strong task dependencies. To address these issues, we propose Graph4Edge which is a graph-based computation offloading strategy for mobile-edge workflow applications. In this paper, firstly, we formulate the computation offloading problem in MEC using a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) based model; secondly, we propose the shortest-path-based algorithm to find the optimal computation offloading plan; finally, preliminary experiments with real-world workflow traces are conducted to evaluate the performance of our proposed strategy. Given the promosing results demonstrated in this paper, we have also presented some important research directions for our future work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/PerComWorkshops48775.2020.9156270
PerCom Workshops
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Mobile Edge Computing, Computation Offloading, Workflow, Directed Acyclic Graph, Shortest Path Algorithm
Conference
2474-2503
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lingmin Fan101.01
ying liu236446.92
Xuejun Li33514.18
Dong Yuan4336.68
Jia Xu554.19