This paper has been presented at: Seventh International Workshop on Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks (CLEEN 2019). How cloudy and green will mobile network and services be? 15 April 2019 - Marrakech, MoroccoIn press / En prensaMulti-access edge computing (MEC) as an emerging
technology which provides cloud service in the edge of multi-radio
access networks aims to reduce the service latency experienced
by end devices. When individual MEC systems do not have
adequate resource capacity to fulfill service requests, forming
MEC federations for resource sharing could provide economic
incentive to MEC operators. To this end, we need to maximize
social welfare in each federation, which involves efficient federation
structure generations, federation profit maximization by
resource provisioning configuration, and fair profit distribution
among participants. We model the problem as a coalition game
with difference from prior work in the assumption of latency
and locality constraints and also in the consideration of various
service policies/demand preferences. Simulation results show that
the proposed approach always increases profits. If local requests
are served with local resource with priority, federation improves
profits without sacrificing request acceptance rates.This work was partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under grant numbers 106-2221-E-009-004 and by the H2020 collaborative Europe/Taiwan
research project 5G-CORAL (grant number 761586)
