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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted MEC Offloading in NOMA-Enabled IoT Networks
Integrating mobile edge computing (MEC) into the Internet of Things (IoT) enables resource-limited mobile terminals to offload part or all of the computation-intensive applications to nearby edge servers. On the other hand, by introducing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), it can enhance the offloading capability of MEC, such that enabling low latency and high throughput. To enhance the task offloading, we investigate the MEC non-orthogonal multiple access (MEC-NOMA) network framework for mobile edge computation offloading with the assistance of a RIS. Different from conventional communication systems, we aim at allowing multiple IoT devices to share the same channel in tasks offloading process. Specifically, the joint consideration of channel assignments, beamwidth allocation, offloading rate and power control is formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem (MOP), which includes minimizing the offloading delay of computing-oriented IoT devices (CP-IDs) and maximizing the transmission rate of communication-oriented IoT devices (CM-IDs). Since the resulting problem is non-convex, we employ ϵ-constraint approach to transform the MOP into the single-objective optimization problems (SOP), and then the RIS-assisted channel assignment algorithm is developed to tackle the fractional objective function. Simulation results corroborate the benefits of our strategy, which can outperforms the other benchmark schemes
A Max-Min Task Offloading Algorithm for Mobile Edge Computing Using Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
To mitigate computational power gap between the network core and edges,
mobile edge computing (MEC) is poised to play a fundamental role in future
generations of wireless networks. In this letter, we consider a non-orthogonal
multiple access (NOMA) transmission model to maximize the worst task to be
offloaded among all users to the network edge server. A provably convergent and
efficient algorithm is developed to solve the considered non-convex
optimization problem for maximizing the minimum number of offloaded bits in a
multi-user NOMAMEC system. Compared to the approach of optimized orthogonal
multiple access (OMA), for given MEC delay, power and energy limits, the
NOMA-based system considerably outperforms its OMA-based counterpart in MEC
settings. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm for
NOMA-based MEC is particularly useful for delay sensitive applications.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Delay Minimization for NOMA-MEC Offloading
This paper considers the minimization of the offloading delay for
non-orthogonal multiple access assisted mobile edge computing (NOMA-MEC). By
transforming the delay minimization problem into a form of fractional
programming, two iterative algorithms based on Dinkelbach's method and Newton's
method are proposed. The optimality of both methods is proved and their
convergence is compared. Furthermore, criteria for choosing between three
possible modes, namely orthogonal multiple access (OMA), pure NOMA, and hybrid
NOMA, for MEC offloading are established
Completion-Time-Driven Scheduling for Uplink NOMA-Enabled Wireless Networks
Efficient scheduling policy is crucial in wireless
networks due to delay-sensitivity of many emerging applications.
In this work, we consider a joint user pairing and scheduling
(UPaS) scheme for multi-carrier non-orthogonal multiple access
(MC-NOMA)-enabled wireless networks to reduce the maximum
completion time of serving uplink users. The NOMA scheduling
problem is shown to be NP-hard and a shortest processing time
(SPT)-based strategy to solve the same problem within affordable
time and complexity is introduced. The simulation results confirm
the efficacy of the proposed scheduling scheme in terms of
the maximum completion time in comparison with orthogonal
multiple access (OMA) and random NOMA pairing
Energy-Latency Aware Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Multi-cell Mobile Edge Computing
The explosive development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to
increased interest in mobile edge computing (MEC), which provides computational
resources at network edges to accommodate computation-intensive and
latency-sensitive applications. Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have
gained attention as a solution to overcome blockage problems during the
offloading uplink transmission in MEC systems. This paper explores IRS-aided
multi-cell networks that enable servers to serve neighboring cells and
cooperate to handle resource exhaustion. We aim to minimize the joint energy
and latency cost, by jointly optimizing computation tasks, edge computing
resources, user beamforming, and IRS phase shifts. The problem is decomposed
into two subproblems--the MEC subproblem and the IRS communication
subproblem--using the block coordinate descent (BCD) technique. The MEC
subproblem is reformulated as a nonconvex quadratic constrained problem (QCP),
while the IRS communication subproblem is transformed into a weight-sum-rate
problem with auxiliary variables. We propose an efficient algorithm to
iteratively optimize MEC resources and IRS communication until convergence.
Numerical results show that our algorithm outperforms benchmarks and that
multi-cell MEC systems achieve additional performance gains when supported by
IRS.Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication.
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