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Computation Offloading in Multi-Access Edge Computing Using a Deep Sequential Model Based on Reinforcement Learning

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MEC is an emerging paradigm that utilizes computing resources at the network edge to deploy heterogeneous applications and services. In the MEC system, mobile users and enterprises can offload computation-intensive… Click to show full abstract

MEC is an emerging paradigm that utilizes computing resources at the network edge to deploy heterogeneous applications and services. In the MEC system, mobile users and enterprises can offload computation-intensive tasks to nearby computing resources to reduce latency and save energy. When users make offloading decisions, the task dependency needs to be considered. Due to the NP-hardness of the offloading problem, the existing solutions are mainly heuristic, and therefore have difficulties in adapting to the increasingly complex and dynamic applications. To address the challenges of task dependency and adapting to dynamic scenarios, we propose a new DRL-based offloading framework, which can efficiently learn the offloading policy uniquely represented by a specially designed S2S neural network. The proposed DRL solution can automatically discover the common patterns behind various applications so as to infer an optimal offloading policy in different scenarios. Simulation experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed DRL-based method with different data transmission rates and task numbers. The results show that our method outperforms two heuristic baselines and achieves nearly optimal performance.

Keywords: access edge; multi access; edge computing; computation; computation offloading; offloading multi

Journal Title: IEEE Communications Magazine
Year Published: 2019

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