Reliable Task Offloading in MEC through Transmission Diversity and Jamming-Aware Scheduling
Ghazal Asemian, Mohammadreza Amini, Burak Kantarcı · 2025
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is emerging as a key enabler for latency-sensitive applications by providing computational resources closer to end-users. However, the dynamic nature of task arrivals and the presence of communication threats such as jamming pose significant challenges for reliable task offloading and resource allocation. In this paper, we formulate a dynamic MEC framework considering the transmission diversity that jointly addresses task scheduling and resource block (RB) assignment in the presence of jamming. First, we define and evaluate key network metrics—including dropped task ratio and bandwidth utilization—while maintaining service continuity by accounting for the existing commitments of the edge server to previously offloaded tasks. Then, we propose a jamming-aware offloading and RB allocation framework that leverages transmission diversity and optimal scheduling across distributed gNBs. The proposed solution is compared to a similar scenario without transmission diversity and two baseline strategies of first-come-first-served (FCFS) and shortest task first (STF). The proposed algorithm effectively mitigates the impact of jamming while enhancing resource utilization and minimizing task drop rates, making it highly suitable for mission-critical MEC applications. At signal-to-jamming-and-noise ratio (SJNR) of 4 dB, the proposed method achieves a 0.26 task drop rate, outperforming the scenario without transmission diversity with a task drop rate of 0.50 and STF and FCFS strategies with 0.52 and 0.63 task drop rates, respectively.