A Two Time-Scale Joint Optimization Approach for UAV-assisted MEC

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Autores principales: Sun, Zemin, Sun, Geng, He, Long, Mei, Fang, Liang, Shuang, Liu, Yanheng
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Publicado: 2024
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author Sun, Zemin
Sun, Geng
He, Long
Mei, Fang
Liang, Shuang
Liu, Yanheng
author_facet Sun, Zemin
Sun, Geng
He, Long
Mei, Fang
Liang, Shuang
Liu, Yanheng
contents Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm to provide aerial-terrestrial computing services close to mobile devices (MDs). However, meeting the demands of computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks for MDs poses several challenges, including the demand-supply contradiction between MDs and MEC servers, the demand-supply heterogeneity between MDs and MEC servers, the trajectory control requirements on energy efficiency and timeliness, and the different time-scale dynamics of the network. To address these issues, we first present a hierarchical architecture by incorporating terrestrial-aerial computing capabilities and leveraging UAV flexibility. Furthermore, we formulate a joint computing resource allocation, computation offloading, and trajectory control problem to maximize the system utility. Since the problem is a non-convex mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP), we propose a two time-scale joint computing resource allocation, computation offloading, and trajectory control (TJCCT) approach. In the short time scale, we propose a price-incentive method for on-demand computing resource allocation and a matching mechanism-based method for computation offloading. In the long time scale, we propose a convex optimization-based method for UAV trajectory control. Besides, we prove the stability, optimality, and polynomial complexity of TJCCT. Simulation results demonstrate that TJCCT outperforms the comparative algorithms in terms of the utility of the system, the QoE of MDs, and the revenue of MEC servers.
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spellingShingle A Two Time-Scale Joint Optimization Approach for UAV-assisted MEC
Sun, Zemin
Sun, Geng
He, Long
Mei, Fang
Liang, Shuang
Liu, Yanheng
Systems and Control
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is emerging as a promising paradigm to provide aerial-terrestrial computing services close to mobile devices (MDs). However, meeting the demands of computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks for MDs poses several challenges, including the demand-supply contradiction between MDs and MEC servers, the demand-supply heterogeneity between MDs and MEC servers, the trajectory control requirements on energy efficiency and timeliness, and the different time-scale dynamics of the network. To address these issues, we first present a hierarchical architecture by incorporating terrestrial-aerial computing capabilities and leveraging UAV flexibility. Furthermore, we formulate a joint computing resource allocation, computation offloading, and trajectory control problem to maximize the system utility. Since the problem is a non-convex mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP), we propose a two time-scale joint computing resource allocation, computation offloading, and trajectory control (TJCCT) approach. In the short time scale, we propose a price-incentive method for on-demand computing resource allocation and a matching mechanism-based method for computation offloading. In the long time scale, we propose a convex optimization-based method for UAV trajectory control. Besides, we prove the stability, optimality, and polynomial complexity of TJCCT. Simulation results demonstrate that TJCCT outperforms the comparative algorithms in terms of the utility of the system, the QoE of MDs, and the revenue of MEC servers.
title A Two Time-Scale Joint Optimization Approach for UAV-assisted MEC
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04597