Multi-objective resource allocation for mobile edge computing systems
Xinyi Zhang, Yuyi Mao, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief · 2017
To enhance the computation capability of mobile devices by offloading computation-demanding tasks to the nearby edge servers. In order to minimize the task latency and the device energy consumption, in this paper, we investigate the multi-objective resource allocation for multi-user MEC systems by adopting the system utility as the performance metric, which is a normalized weighted combination of the time and energy saving achieved by computation offloading. To provide an efficient solution, a low-complexity ranking-based algorithm is proposed based on the modified Newton method and the concept of computation offloading priority. Simulation results show that our proposed algorithm achieves a near-optimal performance and greatly outperforms a baseline algorithm with random spectrum allocation. In addition, it is demonstrated that jointly optimizing the spectrum and computational resource management policy is more critical when the number of MEC users is large.