Latency-Aware IoT Service Provisioning in UAV-Aided Mobile-Edge Computing Networks

Advances in wireless communications are empowering the emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications and services with billions of connected devices. Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to reduce the round-trip delay of these applications as IoT devices may have limited computing resource...

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Vydané v:IEEE internet of things journal Ročník 7; číslo 10; s. 10573 - 10580
Hlavní autori: Zhang, Liang, Ansari, Nirwan
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Piscataway IEEE 01.10.2020
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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ISSN:2327-4662, 2327-4662
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Shrnutí:Advances in wireless communications are empowering the emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications and services with billions of connected devices. Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has been proposed to reduce the round-trip delay of these applications as IoT devices may have limited computing resources and the resource-rich mobile cloud may be far away. On the other aspect, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may potentially be employed to improve the quality of service and the channel conditions of users. We thus propose to utilize the UAV as a computing node as well as a relay node to improve the average user latency in the UAV-aided MEC (UAV-MEC) network and formulate the UAV-MEC problem with the objective to minimize the average latency of all UEs. As the UAV-MEC problem is NP-hard, we decompose it into three subproblems. We propose an approximation algorithm with low complexity to solve the first subproblem and then we obtain the optimal solutions of the remaining two subproblems, upon which another proposed approximation algorithm employs these solutions to finally solve the UAV-MEC problem. The evaluation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is superior to three baseline algorithms.
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ISSN:2327-4662
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DOI:10.1109/JIOT.2020.3005117