Distributed Computation Offloading in Mobile Fog Computing: A Deep Neural Network Approach

In this letter, the performance of offloading is studied, which aims at minimizing the energy consumption in offloading with constraints on the delay. To solve binary computational offloading decision problem, a learning offloading algorithm based on distributed DNN is proposed, which uses multiple...

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Published in:IEEE communications letters Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 696 - 700
Main Authors: Yang, Zhongjun, Bai, Wenle
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Algorithms
Artificial neural networks
Back propagation
Back propagation networks
Cloud computing
Computation offloading
Decisions
Delay
Delays
DEWS metric
distributed DNN
Energy consumption
Entropy (Information theory)
joint optimization
Machine learning
Measurement
Mobile computing
Mobile fog computing
offloading computation
Optimization
Servers
Task analysis
Wireless communication
ISSN:1089-7798, 1558-2558
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Summary:In this letter, the performance of offloading is studied, which aims at minimizing the energy consumption in offloading with constraints on the delay. To solve binary computational offloading decision problem, a learning offloading algorithm based on distributed DNN is proposed, which uses multiple parallel DNNs to generate offloading decisions. The DNN are further improved by using the back-propagation method with cross-entropy as the loss function and using the newly generated decisions as a public training set. Besides, an innovative hierarchical offloading model is presented, based on which derives closed-form expressions for delay and energy in offloading. Then, the Delay-Energy Weighted Sum (DEWS) metric is defined and introduced as system utility to construct a gradient optimization problem to study. Extensive simulation indicate that the algorithm modified with the DEWS metric is able to achieve significant reduction on energy consumption with comparably less the total delay and maintain a high offloading accuracy.
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ISSN:1089-7798
1558-2558
DOI:10.1109/LCOMM.2021.3138800