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Dynamic Task Offloading for Mobile Edge Computing with Hybrid Energy Supply
Tsinghua Science and Technology 2023, 28 (3): 421-432
Published: 13 December 2022
Downloads:102

Mobile edge computing (MEC), as a new distributed computing model, satisfies the low energy consumption and low latency requirements of computation-intensive services. The task offloading of MEC has become an important research hotspot, as it solves the problems of insufficient computing capability and battery capacity of Internet of things (IoT) devices. This study investigates task offloading scheduling in a dynamic MEC system. By integrating energy harvesting technology into IoT devices, we propose a hybrid energy supply model. We jointly optimize local computing, offloading duration, and edge computing decisions to minimize system cost. On the basis of stochastic optimization theory, we design an online dynamic task offloading algorithm for MEC with a hybrid energy supply called DTOME. DTOME can make task offloading decisions by weighing system cost and queue stability. We quote dynamic programming theory to obtain the optimal task offloading strategy. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of DTOME, and show that DTOME entails lower system cost than two baseline task offloading strategies.

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Quality-Aware User Recruitment Based on Federated Learning in Mobile Crowd Sensing
Tsinghua Science and Technology 2021, 26 (6): 869-877
Published: 09 June 2021
Downloads:102

With the rapid development of mobile devices, the use of Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) mode has become popular to complete more intelligent and complex sensing tasks. However, large-scale data collection may reduce the quality of sensed data. Thus, quality control is a key problem in MCS. With the emergence of the federated learning framework, the number of complex intelligent calculations that can be completed on mobile devices has increased. In this study, we formulate a quality-aware user recruitment problem as an optimization problem. We predict the quality of sensed data from different users by analyzing the correlation between data and context information through federated learning. Furthermore, the lightweight neural network model located on mobile terminals is used. Based on the prediction of sensed quality, we develop a user recruitment algorithm that runs on the cloud platform through terminal-cloud collaboration. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated through simulations. Results show that compared with existing algorithms, i.e., Random Adaptive Greedy algorithm for User Recruitment (RAGUR) and Context-Aware Tasks Allocation (CATA), the proposed method improves the quality of sensed data by 23.5 % and 38.8 %, respectively.

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