Title
Joint Computation Offloading And Task Caching For Multi-User And Multi-Task Mec Systems: Reinforcement Learning-Based Algorithms
Abstract
Computation offloading at mobile edge computing (MEC) servers can mitigate the resource limitation and reduce the communication latency for mobile devices. Thereby, in this study, we proposed an offloading model for a multi-user MEC system with multi-task. In addition, a new caching concept is introduced for the computation tasks, where the application program and related code for the completed tasks are cached at the edge server. Furthermore, an efficient model of task offloading and caching integration is formulated as a nonlinear problem whose goal is to reduce the total overhead of time and energy. However, solving these types of problems is computationally prohibitive, especially for large-scale of mobile users. Thus, an equivalent form of reinforcement learning is created where the state spaces are defined based on all possible solutions and the actions are defined on the basis of movement between the different states. Afterwards, two effective Q-learning and Deep-Q-Network-based algorithms are proposed to derive the near-optimal solution for this problem. Finally, experimental evaluations verify that our proposed model can substantially minimize the mobile devices' overhead by deploying computation offloading and task caching strategy reasonably.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s11276-021-02554-w
WIRELESS NETWORKS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Computation offloading, Task caching, Energy-efficient, Mobile edge computing, Q learning, Deep Q Network
Journal
27
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1022-0038
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elgendy Ibrahim1395.42
Weizhe Zhang228753.07
Hui He38016.45
Brij B. Gupta492.18
Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif590.49