Energy-Latency Aware Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Multi-cell Mobile Edge Computing

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Autori principali: Xu, Wenhan, Yu, Jiadong, Wu, Yuan, Tsang, Danny H. K.
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Xu, Wenhan
Yu, Jiadong
Wu, Yuan
Tsang, Danny H. K.
author_facet Xu, Wenhan
Yu, Jiadong
Wu, Yuan
Tsang, Danny H. K.
contents The explosive development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to increased interest in mobile edge computing (MEC), which provides computational resources at network edges to accommodate computation-intensive and latency-sensitive applications. Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have gained attention as a solution to overcome blockage problems during the offloading uplink transmission in MEC systems. This paper explores IRS-aided multi-cell networks that enable servers to serve neighboring cells and cooperate to handle resource exhaustion. We aim to minimize the joint energy and latency cost, by jointly optimizing computation tasks, edge computing resources, user beamforming, and IRS phase shifts. The problem is decomposed into two subproblems--the MEC subproblem and the IRS communication subproblem--using the block coordinate descent (BCD) technique. The MEC subproblem is reformulated as a nonconvex quadratic constrained problem (QCP), while the IRS communication subproblem is transformed into a weight-sum-rate problem with auxiliary variables. We propose an efficient algorithm to iteratively optimize MEC resources and IRS communication until convergence. Numerical results show that our algorithm outperforms benchmarks and that multi-cell MEC systems achieve additional performance gains when supported by IRS.
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spellingShingle Energy-Latency Aware Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Multi-cell Mobile Edge Computing
Xu, Wenhan
Yu, Jiadong
Wu, Yuan
Tsang, Danny H. K.
Networking and Internet Architecture
The explosive development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to increased interest in mobile edge computing (MEC), which provides computational resources at network edges to accommodate computation-intensive and latency-sensitive applications. Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have gained attention as a solution to overcome blockage problems during the offloading uplink transmission in MEC systems. This paper explores IRS-aided multi-cell networks that enable servers to serve neighboring cells and cooperate to handle resource exhaustion. We aim to minimize the joint energy and latency cost, by jointly optimizing computation tasks, edge computing resources, user beamforming, and IRS phase shifts. The problem is decomposed into two subproblems--the MEC subproblem and the IRS communication subproblem--using the block coordinate descent (BCD) technique. The MEC subproblem is reformulated as a nonconvex quadratic constrained problem (QCP), while the IRS communication subproblem is transformed into a weight-sum-rate problem with auxiliary variables. We propose an efficient algorithm to iteratively optimize MEC resources and IRS communication until convergence. Numerical results show that our algorithm outperforms benchmarks and that multi-cell MEC systems achieve additional performance gains when supported by IRS.
title Energy-Latency Aware Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Multi-cell Mobile Edge Computing
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03556