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U-MEC: Energy-Efficient Mobile Edge Computing for IoT Applications in Ultra Dense Networks

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With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, many kinds of IoT devices as well as many colorful IoT applications are emerging and absorb great attention. In this paper, we propose U-MEC, a Mobile Edge Computing framework deployed in ultra dense networks, in order to narrow the resource gap between the constantly increasing demand of IoT applications and the restricted supply of IoT devices. To improve the energy efficiency of this framework, we present a comprehensive model and formulate a mixed integer programming problem to capture task offloading, user association and base station switching. We propose an online scheduling algorithm, which exploits current system information only by invoking Lyapunov optimization, Lagrange multiplier, and sub-gradient techniques. The simulation results show that our framework achieves a better performance in energy consumption compared with several benchmark schemes.

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    We will study the multi-application case in the future work.

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    \(\overline{\lambda _i}\) indicates the average amount of data required to sense by device i in each time slot, which is decided by the application manager offline.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61702288, 61702287), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 7933), the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin in China (No. 16JCQNJC00700), and the Open Project Fund of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing (No. 2017003).

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Yu, B., Pu, L., Xie, Q., Xu, J., Zhang, J. (2018). U-MEC: Energy-Efficient Mobile Edge Computing for IoT Applications in Ultra Dense Networks. In: Chellappan, S., Cheng, W., Li, W. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10874. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94268-1_51

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