New Methods for Optimal Power Allocation and Joint Resource Scheduling in 5G Network which Use Mobile Edge Computing

Abstract

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is considered one of the enabling and promising technologies in 5G networks, especially with the massive data movement of various devices and the increased demand for computing. Here, computational offloading of tasks to edge clouds provides an effective, flexible, low-latency solution for mobile users in the network. However, the limited computing resources in edge clouds and the dynamic demands of mobile users make it difficult to schedule computing requests to appropriate edge clouds, and make the offloading process energetically expensive for devices. Therefore, it is very important to design an energy-efficient offloading strategy. To this end, we first formulate the transmission power allocation (PA) problem for mobile phone users to minimize power consumption. Using a quasi-convex technique, we address the (PA) problem using a (Hybrid GAPSO) algorithm resulting from combining the Genetic Algorithm (GA) with the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. Next, we model the joint request offloading and resource scheduling (JRORS) problem as a mixed- nonlinear program to minimize the response delay of requests. The (JRORS) problem can be divided into two problems, namely the request offloading (RO) problem and the computing resource scheduling (RS) problem. Therefore, we analyze the JRORS problem as a dual decision problem and propose a multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm referred as (MO-PSO). The simulation results show that (HGAPSO) can save transmission power consumption and has good convergence property, and (MO-PSO) outperforms existing methods in terms of response rate and can maintain good performance in a dynamic network.