On the Design of Computation Offloading in Fog Radio Access Networks

Zhongyuan Zhao, Shuqing Bu, Tiezhu Zhao, Zhenping Yin, Mugen Peng, Zhiguo Ding, Tony Q.S. Quek

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Abstract

Based on a hierarchical cloud-fog computing-enabled paradigm, fog radio access networks (F-RANs) can provide abundant resource to support the future mobile artificial intelligent services. However, due to the differences of computation and communication capabilities at the cloud computing center, the fog computing based access points (F-APs), and the user devices, it is challenging to propose efficient computation offloading strategies to fully explore the potential of F-RANs. In this paper, we study the design of computation offloading in F-RANs to minimize the total cost with respect to the energy consumption and the offloading latency. In particular, a joint optimization problem is formulated to optimize the offloading decision, the computation and the radio resources allocation. To solve this non-linear and non-convex problem, an iterative algorithm is designed, which can be proved to converge a stationary optimal solution with polynomial computational complexity. Finally, the simulation results are provided to show the performance gains of our proposed joint optimization algorithm.

Original languageBritish English
Article number8730522
Pages (from-to)7136-7149
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Volume68
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2019

Keywords

  • Computation offloading
  • fog radio access networks
  • resource allocation

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