Energy Balancing for Multiple Devices with Multiple Tasks in Mobile Edge Computing

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Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology ›› 2022, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (2): 480-488.DOI: 10.3778/j.issn.1673-9418.2009072

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Energy Balancing for Multiple Devices with Multiple Tasks in Mobile Edge Computing

PANG Yuan, WU Jigang, CHEN Long⁺(), YAO Mianyang

School of Computer, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China

Received:2020-09-02 Revised:2020-11-11 Online:2022-02-01 Published:2020-12-17
About author:PANG Yuan, born in 1994, M.S. candidate. His research interests include edge computing and machine learning.
WU Jigang, born in 1963, Ph.D., distinguished professor at Guangdong University of Techno-logy, member of CCF. His research interests include network computing, cloud computing, machine intelligence and reconfigurable architecture.
CHEN Long, born in 1988, Ph.D., associate professor, M.S. supervisor. His research interests include mobile cloud computing, Internet of vehicles, cognitive radio networks and network economics.
YAO Mianyang, born in 1997, M.S. candidate. His research interests include mobile edge com-puting and distributed machine learning.
Supported by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China(62072118);National Natural Science Foundation of China(61702115);Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2019B010118001);Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2019B010121001)

边缘计算中多设备多任务的能耗均衡优化算法

庞源, 武继刚, 陈龙⁺(), 姚棉阳

广东工业大学计算机学院,广州 510006

通讯作者: + E-mail: ustchenlong@gdut.edu.cn
作者简介:庞源（1994—）,男,广东湛江人,硕士研究生,主要研究方向为边缘计算、机器学习。
武继刚（1963—）,男,江苏沛县人,博士,广东工业大学百人计划特聘教授,CCF会员,主要研究方向为网络计算、云计算、机器智能、可重构架构。
陈龙（1988—）,男,安徽人,博士,副教授,硕士生导师,主要研究方向为移动云计算、车联网、认知无线电网络、网络经济学。
姚棉阳（1997—）,男,广东汕头人,硕士研究生,主要研究方向为移动边缘计算、分布式机器学习。
基金资助:
国家自然科学基金(62072118);国家自然科学基金(61702115);广东省科技计划重点领域研发项目(2019B010118001);广东省科技计划重点领域研发项目(2019B010121001)

Abstract

Abstract:

With the development of technology, mobile edge computing is facing the challenge of energy balancing of multi-device and multi-task. Related research mostly focuses on how to utilize the computing performance of edge servers to reduce the energy consumption and execution time of mobile devices during task processing. However, the existing research has not yet a good solution to the problem of multi-device and multi-task energy balancing. Aiming at this kind of energy balancing problem, this paper improves the existing edge computing system model, and gives a calculation model for the energy balancing optimization problem of multi-device and multi-task. At the same time, a greedy algorithm is proposed and the corresponding approximate ratio analysis is made. In addition, this paper is compared with the total energy consumption minimization algorithm and the random algorithm, and a large number of simulation experiments are conducted. Experimental results reveal that the average performance of the proposed greedy algorithm can be further improved by 66.59% in terms of energy balancing than the random algorithm. Compared with the brute force algorithm, under the classic task topology, when the minimum transmission power of the mobile device is 5 dBm and 6 dBm respectively, the greedy algorithm almost obtains the optimal solution.

Key words: mobile edge computing, task offloading, energy balancing, greedy algorithm

摘要：

移动边缘计算技术随着科技的发展,面临着多设备多任务的能耗均衡的挑战。相关研究大多集中在如何利用边缘服务器的计算性能以减少移动设备在任务处理过程中的能耗和执行时间。但现有研究在多设备多任务的能耗均衡问题上还没有很好的解决方法。针对此类能耗均衡问题,改进了现有的边缘计算系统模型,并在此基础上,给出了多移动设备多任务的能耗均衡优化问题的计算模型,同时提出了一个贪心算法,并做出了相应的近似比分析。与总能耗优化算法以及随机算法进行对比,并进行了大量的仿真实验。实验结果证明,所提出的贪心算法的平均性能与随机算法相比在能耗均衡方面可进一步提升66.59%。通过与蛮力算法对比,在经典的任务拓扑下,当移动设备的最小传输功率分别为5 dBm和6 dBm时,贪心算法几乎获得最优解。

关键词: 移动边缘计算, 任务卸载, 能耗均衡, 贪心算法

CLC Number:

TP338

PANG Yuan, WU Jigang, CHEN Long, YAO Mianyang. Energy Balancing for Multiple Devices with Multiple Tasks in Mobile Edge Computing[J]. Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology, 2022, 16(2): 480-488.

庞源, 武继刚, 陈龙, 姚棉阳. 边缘计算中多设备多任务的能耗均衡优化算法[J]. 计算机科学与探索, 2022, 16(2): 480-488.

Figures/Tables 6

Table 1 Notations of this paper

符号	含义
$M$	移动设备集
$N$	子任务集
$H$	中继设备集
$e$	边缘服务器
$W i, j$	第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务的工作量大小
$R i, k 、 R k'$	第 $i$ 个移动设备和第 $k$ 个中继设备之间的上行数据速率以及第 $k$ 个中继设备和边缘服务器之间的上行数据速率
$D i, j$	第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务的数据量大小
$t i, j local, E i, j local$	第 $i$ 个移动设备自身处理第 $j$ 个子任务的计算时间以及本地能耗
$t i, j, k sen d 1, E i, j, k sen d 1$	第 $j$ 个子任务从第 $i$ 个移动设备传输到第 $k$ 个中继设备的所需时间和能量消耗
$t i, j, k sen d 2, E i, j, k sen d 2$	第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务从第 $k$ 个中继设备传输到边缘服务器的时间和能量消耗
$t i, j edge$	在 $e$ 上计算第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务所需的时间
$E i, j$	第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务的总能耗
$t i, j f$	第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务完成计算所需的时间
$T i$	第 $i$ 个移动设备所有子任务完成计算的时间
$E i$	第 $i$ 个移动设备所有子任务完成计算的能耗

Table 1 Notations of this paper

符号	含义
$M$	移动设备集
$N$	子任务集
$H$	中继设备集
$e$	边缘服务器
$W i, j$	第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务的工作量大小
$R i, k 、 R k'$	第 $i$ 个移动设备和第 $k$ 个中继设备之间的上行数据速率以及第 $k$ 个中继设备和边缘服务器之间的上行数据速率
$D i, j$	第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务的数据量大小
$t i, j local, E i, j local$	第 $i$ 个移动设备自身处理第 $j$ 个子任务的计算时间以及本地能耗
$t i, j, k sen d 1, E i, j, k sen d 1$	第 $j$ 个子任务从第 $i$ 个移动设备传输到第 $k$ 个中继设备的所需时间和能量消耗
$t i, j, k sen d 2, E i, j, k sen d 2$	第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务从第 $k$ 个中继设备传输到边缘服务器的时间和能量消耗
$t i, j edge$	在 $e$ 上计算第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务所需的时间
$E i, j$	第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务的总能耗
$t i, j f$	第 $i$ 个移动设备的第 $j$ 个子任务完成计算所需的时间
$T i$	第 $i$ 个移动设备所有子任务完成计算的时间
$E i$	第 $i$ 个移动设备所有子任务完成计算的能耗

Fig.1 System model

Table 2 Experimental parameters

参数	数值	参数	数值
$α$	0.1	$B k' / MHz$	5
$B i, k / MHz$	5	$p k' / dBm$	5
$p i / dBm$	5	$f e / GHz$	4
$f i / GHz$	0.8	$σ' / dBm$	-70
$ρ i$	0.3×10^-27	$σ k / dBm$	-70

Table 2 Experimental parameters

参数	数值	参数	数值
$α$	0.1	$B k' / MHz$	5
$B i, k / MHz$	5	$p k' / dBm$	5
$p i / dBm$	5	$f e / GHz$	4
$f i / GHz$	0.8	$σ' / dBm$	-70
$ρ i$	0.3×10^-27	$σ k / dBm$	-70

Fig.2 The first experiment

Fig.3 The second experiment

Fig.4 The third experiment

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