Local Ratio based Real-time Job Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing

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Main Authors: Gao, Chuanchao, Easwaran, Arvind
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Published: 2025
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author Gao, Chuanchao
Easwaran, Arvind
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Easwaran, Arvind
contents Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm enabling vehicles to handle computation-intensive and time-sensitive applications for intelligent transportation. Due to the limited resources in MEC, effective resource management is crucial for improving system performance. While existing studies mostly focus on the job offloading problem and assume that job resource demands are fixed and given apriori, the joint consideration of job offloading (selecting the edge server for each job) and resource allocation (determining the bandwidth and computation resources for offloading and processing) remains underexplored. This paper addresses the joint problem for deadline-constrained jobs in MEC with both communication and computation resource constraints, aiming to maximize the total utility gained from jobs. To tackle this problem, we propose an approximation algorithm, $\mathtt{IDAssign}$, with an approximation bound of $\frac{1}{6}$, and experimentally evaluate the performance of $\mathtt{IDAssign}$ by comparing it to state-of-the-art heuristics using a real-world taxi trace and object detection applications.
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spellingShingle Local Ratio based Real-time Job Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing
Gao, Chuanchao
Easwaran, Arvind
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Discrete Mathematics
Data Structures and Algorithms
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising paradigm enabling vehicles to handle computation-intensive and time-sensitive applications for intelligent transportation. Due to the limited resources in MEC, effective resource management is crucial for improving system performance. While existing studies mostly focus on the job offloading problem and assume that job resource demands are fixed and given apriori, the joint consideration of job offloading (selecting the edge server for each job) and resource allocation (determining the bandwidth and computation resources for offloading and processing) remains underexplored. This paper addresses the joint problem for deadline-constrained jobs in MEC with both communication and computation resource constraints, aiming to maximize the total utility gained from jobs. To tackle this problem, we propose an approximation algorithm, $\mathtt{IDAssign}$, with an approximation bound of $\frac{1}{6}$, and experimentally evaluate the performance of $\mathtt{IDAssign}$ by comparing it to state-of-the-art heuristics using a real-world taxi trace and object detection applications.
title Local Ratio based Real-time Job Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Discrete Mathematics
Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16794